An Empirical Relationship between Entrepreneurial Training and Economic Growth of Pakistan

Abstract

The research was initiated on the statistically proven premises that, there is a relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth of Pakistan. However, the contribution of entrepreneurial skills through entrepreneurial training in this regard was not investigated by any other scholar. Hence, this study has been conducted in order to understand relationship between entrepreneurial training and economic growth of Pakistan. The study was quantitative in nature and employed non-probabilistic sampling design in order to collect data from 128 university students of final year studying in different domains. The respondents were enrolled in four different universities of Sindh and Punjab provinces. However, it was concluded at the end through Pearson, Spearman and Regression analysis that, there is a significant but weak relationship between socio-emotional, technical skills of entrepreneurs and economic growth of the country. However, moderate kind of relationship was found between managerial skills of entrepreneurs and economic growth of Pakistan. Subsequently, it was asserted that, there is a significant moderate relationship between entrepreneurial training and economic growth of the country.