Hours: Mon - Sat: 10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
The Entrepreneurship Development Division (EDD) of the Centre for Educational Planning, Economics & Research Development (CEPERD) is a development training centre for common people, who always dream to become an Entrepreneur, to add value to their lifestyle. The Entrepreneurship Development Division (EDD) not only provides the quality entrepreneurship training but also provides the hand-holding support to all the trainees unless and until their dreams become reality. EDD is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship through dynamic, results-based programmes in low- and developing countries. With an agile, adaptive working style, we collaborate with partners to design innovative programmes and curricula customized for both aspiring and established entrepreneurs. The Division encourages entrepreneurship development and to engender entrepreneurial knowledge/skills by “helping people help themselves through innovation, capacity development and leadership. EDD provides a platform for new and existing, whether micro, small, or medium-scale enterprise through skills acquisition activities for the development and management of the enterprise. To understand the enterprise better, the Division emphasizes on research that will contribute to entrepreneurial development in Nigeria and other developing countries, advance education and skill acquisition along this line, and popularize the idea of entrepreneurship. The Division creates so many successful entrepreneurs in the society, the entrepreneurs were proved such an asset to the society that they not only developed themselves and their family but also they touched too many life’s in the society by helping other to fulfill their dream either by providing them employment or by selflessly motivating them to become entrepreneurs like them.

EDD MISSION

  • To build an entrepreneurial society though nurturing entrepreneurship in young people and establish supporting environment in the community.
  • To be committed in contributing to the qualitative improvement of entrepreneurship in the developing countries with the view to accelerate business and thereby socio-economic development.

EDD VISION

To inculcate the spirit of Entrepreneurship amongst young people by helping them to develop their creative ideas into brilliant business plans such that they are motivated to come up with their own start-ups

EDD RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS

Individual staff research activities within the Division cover a wide variety of areas, organised around key and overlapping themes such as Entrepreneurial Learning, Entrepreneurial Innovation, Family Business, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, etc. The Division researchers also present their work at top international conferences and are encouraged to do so through internal and external resources. Individual personnel research activities within the Division cover a wide variety of areas, organised around key and overlapping themes as below.