Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Using Entrepreneurship, Innovations and Investments: The Engineer as Key Driver
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37933/nipes.e/4.2.2022.9Abstract
The sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) can be used to harness
frontline technologies in order to address gaps in emerging
economies. A Survey has been carried out to critically investigate
five key variables that will convert technology transfer into value
using a multi-institutional web survey amongst engineers in six geo-
political zones of Nigeria. A target population of 100 respondents of
registered engineers with the Council for Regulation of Engineering
in Nigeria (COREN) was used. The variables were: establishing
well-tailored entrepreneurship skill acquisition programs in our
universities, using Engineers as key drivers of innovations, industry-
academia-government collaboration, inclusive sustainable finance
and Small scale Medium Enterprises (SME) Coalition. The results
were validated through a set of data from chi-square analysis: (1)
97.40% of the respondents agreed that establishing well-tailored
entrepreneurship skill acquisition programs in our universities and
investing on youth economic prosperity will help to achieve the
sustainable development goals with only 2.6% declining, (2) 90.93%
of the respondents agreed to using Engineers as creative
entrepreneurs as key drivers of innovations in achieving the
sustainable development goals with only 9.07% declining, (3)
89.63% agreed to inclusive sustainable finance with only 10.37%
declining, (4) 88.42% agreed to industry-academia-government
collaboration with only 11.58% declining while (5) 88.33% were
of the opinion that establishing and funding SME coalitions, to
encourage investors to massively invest will boost economy, and
help in achieving the sustainable development goals with only
11.67% declining. In conclusion, establishing well-tailored
entrepreneurship skill acquisition programs in our universities and
investing on youth economic prosperity will help to achieve the
sustainable development goals.
