Promoting Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent Cultivation in Cameroon Higher Education: Significance, Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

Many African countries are involved in the implementation of numerous strategic programs to achieve national emergence and development. These efforts are encountering many difficulties, especially in terms of the availability of higher-skilled human resources. Cameroon, a Sub-Saharan African country, is not an exception to this situation in this group of countries. Cameroon is making tremendous development-related efforts but the shortage of an innovative workforce is superseding its social and economic growth. One of the core missions assigned to the country's higher education is to produce innovative and entrepreneurial individuals that are valuable assets to the effective development of the country. Based on available research and information, this study focuses on the issue of talent cultivation in Cameroon higher education. It investigates the significance of promoting the cultivation of innovative and entrepreneurial talents in the country's higher education. It further identifies the core challenges faced by the Cameroonian higher education concerning innovative and entrepreneurial talent cultivation. Lastly, it recommends some relevant strategies that involve boosting the cultivation of innovative and entrepreneurial talents in the country's higher education.

Keywords: talent cultivation, innovative and entrepreneurial talents, higher education, Cameroon

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-35-08

Publication date: December 31^st 2020