Entrepreneurship Training and Business Performance of Firms Established by Strathmore University Graduates

Abstract

Globally, the advocacy for entrepreneurship training as a tool for enhancing job creation among graduates as well as economic growth cannot be understated. This emphasis is evident by the increased offering of entrepreneurship-related courses in universities including those in Kenya. As such, this study intended to ascertain the relationship between entrepreneurship training and the performance of businesses established by the graduates of Strathmore University as a private university in Kenya. It employed a descriptive cross-sectional quantitative survey making use of quantitative data gathered from an online survey comprising 33 participants drawn from entrepreneurship courses graduates who had graduated between the years 2014 and 2018. The research focussed on both descriptive and inferential statistics to analyse the resulting data. The findings determined that indeed the entrepreneurship training offered by Strathmore University had a significant positive relationship on the performance of firms established by their graduates. Notably, the study established the importance of the training content in promoting the performance of these enterprises. However, the training method had no statistically significant effect on business performance. Therefore, the outcomes of the analysis set greater emphasis on the content compared to the method of training.