Learning and innovation in youth-owned small businesses
Keywords:
Innovation, Learning, Youth, Small business, Sectoral systems innovation
Abstract
The birth and survival rate of youth-owned businesses has been a major concern for
policymakers, industry and academics alike. Learning and innovation play important roles and more
critical is the mediating factors and how it impacts the enterprise competitiveness of youth-owned
businesses and hence worth studying. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of mediating
factors such as government support, informal network society and external knowledge infrastructure
on learning and innovation in youth-owned small businesses in Lagos, Nigeria, from a cross-sectional
perspective
