Assessment of Digital Competencies on Entrepreneurial Intention of Business Education Students of Delta State-Owned Tertiary Institutions

Aganbi Freeborn Omuvwie

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This paper titled “Assessment of Digital Competency on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business Education Students in Delta State-owned Tertiary” aims to understand how students’ digital abilities influence plans to start businesses. The study used a survey method, where 320 students from different years in business education programme across four state-owned tertiary institutions were chosen using a purposive sampling technique, meaning students who are more familiar with digital skills were deliberately selected. Data was collected through structured questionnaires, which asked students about digital skills and intention to become entrepreneur.  To analyse the data, mean and standard deviation were used while, Pearson’s correlation test statistic, Chi-square statistic and Regression were used to test the four hypotheses.  The results showed that business education students demonstrated confidence in digital skills and significant positive entrepreneurial intention; but weakness in risk-taking propensity.  The test of hypotheses of r = 0.489, p < 0.05 indicates a moderate positive correlation between digital competency and entrepreneurship intention of Business Education students while approximately 23.9% of variance in entrepreneurship intention can be explained by digital competency.  Years in school and gender have no significant influence on both digital competencies and entrepreneurship intention of the students. It also shows that of the skills investigated, regression indicated that “Content Creation “seems to be more associated with entrepreneurship intention., The findings suggest that improving digital skills through better teaching and resources can help students move from entrepreneurship intention to start-up. The study recommends that tertiary institutions should include more practical digital training, provide better facilities, and create a supportive environment for student entrepreneurs.


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