Abstract
Entrepreneurial skills are skills related to identifying business opportunities and receiving a sustainable income from these opportunities. Sports and human kinetics have a lot of potential for the improvement of entrepreneurship for unemployed youth. This paper explains the concept and highlighted possible areas in sport and human kinetics education programme currently offered in Nigerian schools that when well implemented could create a lot of entrepreneurs in Nigeria in the Sports Sector. The present curriculum content of human kinetics and sports are capable of satisfying entrepreneur skills acquisition at all levels of educational endeavour. Some suggested areas include design and production of sports wears, construction of sports equipment including those for persons with disabilities, construction of pitches, designing keep fit programme, designing and construction of indoor recreational activities, design and construction of instructional materials, computer games, creating internet site for sport and dancing skills or calisthenics. The relationship between sport entrepreneurship and sustainable development was determined by examining sport based entrepreneurial opportunities that Universities can undertake for developing skills and empowering their immediate environment financially and extending to the Nigerian society in general.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Human Kinetics, Skills, Sports based, Sustainable development
Publication Date: 2023-12-09