VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: EMERGING TRENDS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT

Abstract

The importance of entrepreneurship has boomed in several last decades. Currently, the new age of entrepreneurship is discussed a lot. The new age is primarily connected to innovation and technological trends. There are no doubts that entrepreneurship and its support has got into the focus of public policies. One of the very efficient ways of supporting spreading of entrepreneurship is considered development of entrepreneurship education. Therefore, higher education institutions play a very important role in the support and entrepreneurship development. Entrepreneurship education represents a strong mainstream which has the ability to raise nascent entrepreneurs, foster innovation and arrange a continuous flow of information and knowledge. Universities are perceived as agents of a valuable source of skilled people who can be led to an entrepreneurial career. From universities it is expected to use innovative approaches in their teaching methods and curriculum in general. However, most of them recognize this process of change very slowly. To better understand the current position of the entrepreneurship education and call for a change several experience and knowledge from the most successful universities can be used. The paper presents particular outcomes of entrepreneurship research the V4 project V4 Scientific Centers for the Enhancement of Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Education and examples of entrepreneurship teaching methods used by two close international partners of the Faculty of Economics of the University of West Bohemia. The examples of entrepreneurship teaching methods are considered to be good model examples and can be used as inspiration for creating of own method of entrepreneurship education.

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurship education
• method
• approach