Abstract

Agripreneurship is a new concept in the fields of agriculture and entrepreneurship. Graduates in Nigeria
need to develop skills that will enable them to develop the insight needed to identify and explore viable agricultural
business opportunity in Nigeria, gather resources, establish and manage their own agribusiness successfully.
Therefore, it is important to have an effective curriculum that focuses on programmes and training of students to
increase graduates’ participation in agripreneurship for employment creation. Social innovation, proxied by
educational innovation, entrepreneurship education, digital innovation and agricultural innovation, has not been
adequately exploited in the training of undergraduates in Nigerian universities and polytechnics. Thus, this study
investigated the effect of social innovation dimensions on graduate agripreneurship in Nigeria. The target
population comprised 36,494 youth corps members from six selected states in Nigeria. The calculated sample size of
533 was proportionately selected using the snowball sampling technique. A validated questionnaire was
administered to collect data. Data collected were analysed using multiple linear regression. Results of the analysis
revealed that there is a positive and significant effect of social innovation dimensions on graduate agripreneurship
in Nigeria (Adj.R2 = 0.347, F (4, 510) = 69.130, p < 0 xss=removed xss=removed xss=removed> and agricultural innovation (? = 0.543, t = 12.961, p = 0.001) have a positive and significant effect on graduate
agripreneurship, while entrepreneurship education (? = -0.077, t = -1.477, p = 0.140) and digital innovation (? = 0.044,
t = -0.775,
p
=
0.439)
have
a negative
and insignificant
effect
on graduate
agripreneurship
in
Nigeria.