Cooperative Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurial Interest among the Youth: Evidence from Nigeria

Abstract

Cooperative society being one of the most potent instruments that can be used to penetrate the poverty fabric of African society cannot be divorced from the quest to achieve sustainable development. More importantly, innovative dimension to cooperative society such as students ‘cooperatives aiming at empowering students for entrepreneurship will, in no small measure, play a major role in curbing a major hindrance to sustainable development-unemployment. Hence, this paper investigates the effect of student cooperative society on the entrepreneurial interest of Nigerian students using Adeyemi University of Education, Ondo State as a case study. The exploratory study adopted a qualitative approach to examine this effect using series of interview and then analyzed using content analysis. We therefore discovered that the student cooperative society has inherent potential to augment the eventual participation of the youth in entrepreneurial activities in Nigeria and then draw implication for Africa at large.