Abstract:
Levels of unemployment and environmental challenges make social
entrepreneurship and social enterprise very important for the
sustainability of society. Higher education has played a fundamental
role in driving entrepreneurship and innovation in local, national,
regional, and global contexts. The authors of this article explore the
state of the legislative framework in Ghana, as well as social
enterprise education, stakeholder engagement, models and
challenges. The methodology applied for this paper is concept
mapping, enabling the critical exploration of the relevance of social
enterprise in the context of higher education, and demonstrating how
it could practically serve as a panacea to rising youth unemployment.
This research concludes by making a case for including social
enterprise in the higher education curriculum.
