A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements Awarded on the Degree of Masters of Science in Entrepreneurship at Mzumbe University
The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of business incubation in providing youth employment. To archive this objective, the researcher selects management competence, entrepreneurial skills, and technical skills as independent variables and job opportunities (youth employment) as a dependent variable.
This study has been conducted in Zanzibar and has been selected as the study area because of easy access of getting information (data), the study used simple random sampling to get the questionnaire toward the respondents, 100 questionnaires were distributed to incubates of Zanzibar Technology Business Incubation Center and only 70 were collected used for analysis in this study.
Descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis have been used in this study to analyze the results in order to arrive at a conclusion.
Regarding the primary objective, this study has revealed a positive strong significant relationship between management competence and job opportunity for youth. Furthermore, it has been revealed that an entrepreneurial skill was also found to be a significant predictor of the job opportunity. Using regression analysis management competence provided by business incubation is the most predictor and ranked number one for the outcomes of job opportunity to youth, followed by entrepreneurial skills. Technical skills were found to be non-significant to job opportunities on the incubation center in Zanzibar. In general, the findings of this study indicate a significant association between management competence, entrepreneurial skills and technical skills provided in business incubation center with a job opportunity to youth.
This study recommended that; the findings have revealed the existence of a significant relationship between youth incubators (business incubation centers) and the success of youth entrepreneurship as part of the job opportunity. The government is in charge of policies and being the biggest spender in the country needs to act as a strategic partner in incubation centers.