There are a lot of regulations they have to comply with. They are trying to make ends meet and make their businesses grow and so it sometimes becomes… - Rosemond Aboagyewa Boohene

I have worked on a lot of projects aimed at fostering an entrepreneurial mindset in students of the UCC, including university wide entrepreneurship course, Business incubator, among others.

There is growing confidence among researchers in the ability of small businesses to play a vital role in economic development. This role is manifested through their contribution to innovation, job creation, and income generation. In transitional economies such as Ghana, small businesses comprise about 90 per cent of all registered enterprises and are recognised as a crucial and integral component of economic development policies aimed at sustained poverty reduction.

I observed that entrepreneurs were faced with a plethora of challenges, including limited access to finance, inadequate infrastructure, skill gap, inadequate human resources like mentors and coaches and a limited access to market.