TECHNOLOGICAL THEORIES: SUBSTANTIVE APPLICATION IN DEVELOPING UNIVERSITY-BASED ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM

Abstract: Decades of tremendous technological and sociological panacea being deployed by universities for the footing of an enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem have not assuaged the issues of poor technological perception in relation to the deployment of University-based entrepreneurial ecosystem. This article conceptually shows that entrepreneurial ecosystem is negatively positioned in the valley of technological adoption, attitudinally hindered from reaching the realm of technological adaptation. Therefore, this article objectively presents a conceptual explication of the mesh mechanism surrounding the complexities of student’s entrepreneurial perception in relation to the role of ICT with the focal lens of Feenberg’s technological theories. As a contingent struggle in Nigerian entrepreneurial context, the authors propose possible solutions to conceptually attenuate poor technopreneurial perception within University-based entrepreneurial ecosystem through qualitatively developed substantive theory, enhancing the development of a technologically inclined system for entrepreneurial enhancement.