Technical Skills a Panacea to Entrepreneurial Development for Effective Small and Medium Enterprises: A Study of Makarfi and Ikara Local Governments
Sani Hussani Gimi 1 & Sanusi Lawal2
Department of Business Administration,
Faculty of Management and Social Sciences,
Federal University, Gusau
Email: sanigimi@gmail.com & lawalsan@yahoo.com
Abstract: Even through, there are many research work on entrepreneurial skills on the growth of small and median size enterprises with large number of support, but yet only few of their research was on makarfi and Ikara local governments areas. The study administered (30) questionnaires for data collection on the two study areas by using random sampling distribution, regression analysis was employed to determine the relationship between the dependent variable of SMEs growth and independent variable of entrepreneur’s technical skills and hypothesis testing. The result shows that Technical skills have significant effect on SMEs Growth of the two local government areas at 0.05 level of significant and the contribution of the variability is 53.5% from the regression result. It is therefore, recommended that Government should provide urgent financial support to boost entrepreneur skills and training. Findings revealed favorable influence between entrepreneur skills and growth.
Keywords: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Growth, Technical Skills, Small and Medium enterprise
