Is Entrepreneurship Learned or an Inborn Feature in Mozambique?

Abstract

Mozambique is faced with unemployment problem and the natural solution deemed by authorities as appropriate to alleviate the problem has been to persuade the youth to embark on self employment through the formation of own enterprises. There has not been a common agreement on how to achieve this aim, with some quarters arguing that entrepreneurship can be encouraged through education and training whilst others maintain that entrepreneurship is an instinctive feature that merely needs to be discovered and developed. A study was made in Greater Maputo, the capital of Mozambique in order to solve this intriguing quagmire. More appropriately, the research deliberated on three distinct groups: manufacturing, services and commerce sub-sectors to ascertain what prompted entrepreneurs in the country to enter into business. It was found that the need for self fulfillment superseded other presumptions thought to be the main factors for launching enterprises. It was thus recommended that more support should be rendered to entrepreneurs in the country by instilling on them the sense of competitiveness.

Keywords: Competitiveness, Education, Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Training, Unemployment.