Global Entrepreneurship Week: Assessing the Level of Awareness and Impact on Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindset Development

There is much believe that the social gathering at Polytechnics has a substantial impact on the development of entrepreneurial attitudes and mindset on students. The Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is an annual event that occurs over the span of one week and includes the participation of millions of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, researchers, educators, entrepreneurship support organizations and interested individuals in the field of entrepreneurship. As the acceleration of change increases, the need for opportunity discovery, evaluation and utilization of business opportunity intensified. This present paper seeks to determine the level of awareness and impact of GEW on our students’ entrepreneurial mindset. Samples were drawn from the five academic institutes of the Polytechnic. Seven hundred and fifty students were randomly selected across the institutes to include ND and HND programmes. The two parts questionnaires were tagged “Awareness of GEW programme†and “Impacts of GEW programme. Hypothetically, the results revealed that 70% of the students are quite aware of the GEW and 60% were positively impacted. It was concluded that GEW is in indeed an entrepreneurship programme worth celebrating every November of the year. This was followed by valuable recommendations.