Abstract:
bridge the gap that has arisen between the number of graduates and employment opportunities
available in the job market. Since the entrepreneurs' entrepreneurial mindset is different from
others in the process of creating value and appropriation of rewards, the purpose of this study is
to understand the readiness of the mindset of entrepreneurship students for sensing the
uncertainty in the environment for venturing into entrepreneurship opportunities in the market.
Hence, this metacognition research founded on a positivist approach quantitatively assesses the
cognitive adaptability of a sample of 196 students at an African university.
The study's findings reflect that the metacognitive adaptability of the students had not been
developed similar to the entrepreneurs. Hence, it is recommended to redesign the pedagogies of
entrepreneurial education so that the university's entrepreneurial students would be dynamic,
flexible, and self-regulating to sense the uncertainty in the environment. However, the results are
subject to the study's limitation that the self-administered questionnaire may inflate or deflate
variables even though several ex-ante and ex-post approaches would be used to minimize
common method bias.
