A six-week entrepreneurship clinic opens for final year
students in tertiary institutions at the KNUST from February 1 to March 8, 2013.
The Programme aims at imparting skills and creating opportunities
for successful entrepreneurship and value addition to enterprises.
It is organized by the KNUST’s College of Art and
Social Sciences (CASS), in collaboration with the University’s Centre for
Business Development (CBD).
Head of the CBD, Ralph Nyadu-Addo, says students will
be empowered with the requisite knowledge in all aspects of the
entrepreneurship and small business management as well as professional and
business ethics.
He tells Luv Biz Report previous clinics have had
significant impact in breeding a crop of students with entrepreneurship and
intrapreneurship mindset.
“We have been overwhelmed by over 50 students coming in
with their business plans for us to help them straighten up and even some have
over ten registered companies in one area or another”, noted Mr. Nyadu-Addo.
According to him, “the idea is not to necessarily help them
to immediately start their businesses but also to be able to work in other
companies, by way of preparing themselves to launch their own business”.
Mr Nyadu-Addo, who chairs the programme planning
committee, says areas of interest will include managing and sustaining a
business in Ghana; understanding the business environment and opportunities and
threats it presents; discovering and utilizing potentials in life and coping
with life after school; as well as understanding the business financing systems
of Ghana including micro financing.
The programme would be crowned with “Mentors Day” where
renowned Ghanaian entrepreneurs and captains of industry will share experiences
with and interact with participants.
Story by Kofi Adu Domfeh
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