Author(s): Yuliya Frolova, Vladimir Zotov, Anastasia Kurilova, Kirill Mukhin, Nikolay Tyutrin
This article discusses trends in entrepreneurship education. It aims to discuss key concepts around modern entrepreneurship education and to analyze their applicability to universities in the former Soviet countries. Entrepreneurship education is provided mainly in traditional university setting and through short-term projects (master classes, online courses, seminars, projects, etc.). The main factors that cause changes in entrepreneurship education are low forecastability of long-term economic situation, globalization and digitization of economy. In this regard, education is now considered an individual process that lasts a lifetime and educational structures are forced to discover new dimensions of organizational mobility and business agility to survive and thrive in a highly competitive market. At this point, short-term courses, master classes, and projects will be strongly sought-for; individual approach to course planning, the Bologna Process, and individually selected tools are expected to find growing importance. Aside from this, the so-called design thinking is about to creep into the system of education, which provides a project-based approach to learning. Universities become business-oriented: they firstly produce entrepreneurs and secondly perform entrepreneurial activity, namely create business incubators and science parks, accelerate start-ups, realize technology transfer, collaborate with endowment funds (academic fundraising), create an innovation ecosystem, etc.