Dataset for Innovative Business Idea Generation in Higher Education: The Interplay between Entrepreneurship Centres and Economic Conditions

The purpose of this data is to investigate how entrepreneurship centers in Nigerian universities contribute to innovative business idea generation among undergraduates, particularly under varying general economic conditions. Drawing on Ecological Systems Theory, the use of the data conceptualizes entrepreneurship centers as part of the microsystem and general economic conditions captured by inflation, insecurity, power instability, and high interest rates as components of the exosystem. This primary data were collected from 269 final-year students across selected universities and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM).