Entreprenuership Development

Business accelerators are growing in popularity nationally and internationally as a key contributor to the rate of urban entrepreneurial startup success. Based upon the widespread acceptance of this business development approach, institutional organizations, universities, faith-based organizations, for profit and nonprofit enterprises are adding business accelerators to their strategic portfolio to stimulate economic development. Mainstream accelerator
programs have generally targeted technology-based companies in high growth industry sectors. As such they have attracted significant public and private investment and have spawned a number of high profile success stories.
Success in these accelerators is generally measured by the amount of equity and venture capital the business attracts, exponential growth in sales, and the wealth created when the company is sold to a larger firm or goes public.
Unfortunately there are very few minority-owned firms represented among the success stories.  However, recognizing the need for accelerating the growth of minority-owned firms, the Akron Urban League, Cleveland Foundation, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and the Strategic Action Council of Northwest Louisiana created
Minority Business Accelerator Programs that target minority-owned businesses in urban inner-city communities. These accelerator programs have focused on building the capacity and scale of existing businesses in industries where
minority businesses are represented but under performing. Construction contracting and healthcare related businesses are two primary examples.
Bethel New Life, Inc. has undertaken this research paper to examine the state  of businesses in five neighborhoods on the West Side of Chicago (Austin, East/West Garfield Park, Humboldt Park, and North Lawndale) and to identify an
accelerator service delivery model that will be effective in building capacity and sustainability of West Side businesses.
Bethel’s current business development efforts include an Illinois Small Business
Development Center (SBDC), an Entrepreneurship Training Program (ETP), the Neighborhood Business Development Center Specialty Advisor (NBDC) and a New Markets Tax Credit Program (NMTC). The NBDC program is a pilot
business accelerator that has given Bethel experience of working with 25 businesses in various stages of growth.
The research was conducted by interviewing community leaders and business owners, reviewing surveys of the business activity in the five neighborhoods, and reviewing literature and academic research on the topics of urban
entrepreneurs and minority business development programs.
The findings indicate that in communities similar to the West Side of Chicago, there is significant desire of business owners to grow and expand their businesses, a skills gap and unique obstacles exist for urban entrepreneurs,
there is a need to increase the quantity and quality of the businesses in these communities, and an effective accelerator program must be designed to account for the unique challenges and opportunities the businesses encounter.
This research paper and the business development programs of Bethel New Life have been supported by The Private Bank. The support of The Private Bank and other partners have been instrumental in the graduation of more
than 100 entrepreneurs from the Entrepreneurship Training Program as of December 2014.

ABSTRACT
The focus of this paper is on influence of entrepreneurial development on unemployment reduction in Nigeria. It examines the ethical factors and stage of development required of the entrepreneur in order to enable him performs his strategic functions in organizational strategic management in Nigeria. It states how entrepreneurship development serves as a panacea for unemployment reduction in Nigeria. It further states mechanisms to boost employment through entrepreneurship development in Nigeria and the constraining factors that militate against its achievement. Finally, it concludes and recommends major priorities and agenda to enhance the entrepreneurial development in Nigeria.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Development, Unemployment, Unemployment Reduction,
        Entrepreneurship Development

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between performance management, employee engagement and organizational culture of some selected banks in Nigeria. The study employed a primary source of data through administered questionnaires drawn from organizational culture, performance management and, employee empowerment. A Secondary source of data was used in reviewing various literature. In analyzing our data, a test of equality, Pearson correlation, and Ordinary least square regression techniques was used. The result showed that performance management (X1=2.09) was significant and positively related to organizational culture. Employee empowerment (X2=-0.08) was significant negatively related to organizational culture. The study, therefore, recommended that organization should adopt a robust performance management system to have a more transparent and dynamic organizational culture, and also banks should be conscious on the level of empowerment as it may weaken organizational culture.

This handbook aims to be a useful resource for practitioners in the field of youth entrepreneurship who are seeking to gain insights into the experiences and best practices of youth entrepreneurship programmes worldwide. The intention is not to prescribe a single way to design and implement ‘ideal’ youth entrepreneurship services, but rather to give an overview of the different possibilities that exist in the light of a variety of objectives connected to these programmes and the socio- economic realities in which they operate. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The development of this publication was commissioned by Youth Business International (YBI).Authors: Centre of Partnerships for Development (CAD)

Problem Statement: Creating a learning environment for in novation and entrepreneurship depends on the leadership model of the university management because of the highly technological and innovative products and services demand. Research Questions: This study questions the leadership model at the universities where inninterovation and entrepreneurship have significantly improved including the drawbacks of  the leadership models. Purpose of the Study: As the purpose of this study, the new leadership model for the university management for innovation and entrepreneurship is studied clearly to understand deeply the
new roles in these highly competitive global economies. Further more, the style of the leadership model is analyzed as well to find out the new strategy.
Research Methods: By using strategically phenomenological  interpretive analysis, the new leadership model for the university management for innovation and entrepreneurship is articulated in three different universities in Istanbul. The
study takes three months where 42 different faculty members and 12  graduate students are questioned by giving 6 different research questions in the semi structured interviews. The  data are analyzed in  Atlas. ti 7.

The International Journal of Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development (IJYEED-JOURNAL) is an open access journal that provides rapid bi-annual publication of well edited paper from global youths, scholars, researchers, students and other experts with papers that contain their original works in English only but limited to the following areas of research which will be considered for publication in our next issue: Peace-building and security, Youth Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Entrepreneurship Development, Gender Issues, Community Development, Humanities, Sex Education, Skill Acquisitions, Alcohol Prevention, Drug Abuses, Culture, HIV/AIDS, ICT, NGOs and Youth Participation etc. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance excellence. Papers will be published approximately two months after submission upon acceptance by the Editorial Team.

Extreme poverty and soaring unemployment rate are thought to be the main causes of the social and economic underdevelopment of Rangpur division. To eradicate these two main social and economic problems and boost up the economic growth in Rangpur, development of new entrepreneurs is the most effective mechanism. Since the social and economic conditions of a nation or region have impact on development of new entrepreneurs, this paper aims at identifying the social, economic and individual factors that encourage or impede entrepreneurship development in Rangpur. To conduct this study, researchers have collected the primary data from two hundred respondents using survey method besides analyzing the extensive sources of secondary data. It is found that business background, easy access to capital, network of people, desire of more money, having good business idea, business knowledge/information, and peer group influence, desire of creating employment opportunity risk avoidance attitude, n...