Abstract
Despite the consensus regarding the importance of business with growth expectations, there are
limited studies that explore factors that induce and are associated with growth expectations of
entrepreneurs. The gap particularly becomes worse when considering the growth expectations of
African Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA). This paper, examine the relationship between growth
expectations of TEA in Africa with new product development and international business orientation,
and type of entrepreneurship with the view of addressing the gap and encouraging future academic
discourse. Six years of GEM data of four African countries were used. The major finding was that
growth expectations of African TEA are strongly correlated with new product orientation and
international business orientation. Contrary to previous research it was found that growth
expectations and type of entrepreneurship (opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship) have no
statistically significant association. Moreover, the result upholds the virtuous circle relationship
between new product and international business orientations established by previous studies.