Abstract
One of the focus areas of the South African National Development Plan is
entrepreneurial universities’ role of developing South African youth’s ownership of their future
financial viability. In this context, ownership refers to sense of duty to participate in becoming
skilled citizens that contribute towards the country’s economy.
Objective: In this paper, the research objective is aligned to the first phase of an intervention
development study. The objective of the study (in progress) is to develop an intervention and
measure how changes to the information and knowledge management curriculum design impact
on students’ entrepreneurial awareness of commercialisation processes and procedures.
Method: This paper presents the findings of a group level analysis that was conducted by
examining the current state of first year information and knowledge management students’
perception and curriculum-fit in terms of their perception of self as ideators and knowledge of
the commercialisation cycle. The first phase consisted of literature review and qualitative and
quantitative data collection by means of a questionnaire. The results form part of the gap analysis
phase of intervention research design...