Authors
Shishkin D.
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Degree
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PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Perm National Research Polytechnic University |
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E-mail
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dgshishkin@yandex.ru |
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Location
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Perm |
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Articles
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The development of entrepreneurial competencies in a technical university: experience and good practicesModern Russian universities solve several problems in order to increase their competitiveness.
One of them is the development of students’ soft skills. This allows graduates to successfully integrate
into the modern business and gain job achievements. One of the programs that forms soft
skills is a course in Entrepreneurship. In Perm National Research Polytechnic University this course
is available for students since 2012 (as a part of complex ‘Students’ entrepreneurial activity development
project’ launched at 2007). It’s an elective course available for students of all majors within
the University. About 700 students of 9 faculties choose this course annually. This course allows
students to get acquainted with the principles of entrepreneurship, try to develop their own entrepreneurial
project. The main principles of the course are the orientation to practice and the use of
gamification of the learning process. Gamification does not mean the transformation of classes into
a game, but the use of techniques of active involvement of participants in a dynamic and two-sided
educational process. Entrepreneurship teaching process involves the use of «Flipped Class» principle.
The main part of the class time is devoted to the analysis of students’ projects. The teacher’s
role is to help students in developing their entrepreneurial competencies. Also students are taught
to operate models and calculations. In this case the role of the teacher (or tutor) is to create a class
with ‘lean environment’, which stimulates, even a little interested in the initial stage of students, to
engage in the development of projects. Classes are conducted by practitioners who have their own
entrepreneurial experience or experience in real business. This all becomes possible, thanks to the
university entrepreneurial ecosystem, which includes entrepreneurial clubs, business-incubators,
startups’ competitions, information resources etc.
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