Fostering Students Entrepreneurship through Digital Platforms

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is a process characterized by the pursuit of opportunity. It is a series of steps that combines knowledge and skills to enable the process of value creation in fulfilling a market need. The role of education is increasing in successful entrepreneurial activities worldwide. Our work intends to contribute in highlighting and strengthening relations between university education and entrepreneurship in Albanian context. Following the European Directive "Rethinking Education Strategy" several Albanian universities are considering new methods for encouraging university ventures. One of the means suggested is through digital platforms established by and in universities that can play a significant role to push Albanian university education towards the closest collaboration with entrepreneurship and market. After the 'business incubators' wave, digital platforms are becoming the main stimulating tool of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit for young people, successfully used by many foreign universities. This study presents a new platform called Launchpad Albania, purposely designed to stimulate the development of new business ideas and to evaluate their success probability. Mainly intended for use by university students, it helps to find associates that support the business ideas and assist with business plan drawing. The expectations from this study are to facilitate establishment of digital platforms where universities, private businesses, banks, students, and lecturers are involved for entrepreneurial activities. This is the main theoretical and practical contribution to the benefit of Albanian universities in their efforts to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit, both at the individual and institutional level.

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“…Para los nuevos emprendedores, en particular, un reto clave es ser capaz de desarrollar plataformas de innovación que creen enfoques eficientes de salida al mercado (Beetson et al, 2020;Hsieh y Wu, 2019;Pano y Gjika, 2020). La creación y manejo de redes sociales se considera como la competencia básica necesaria para que los emprendedores puedan comunicarse, relacionarse y llegar a crecer en el mundo laboral (Joshi et al, 2018;Rippa y Secundo, 2019;Sorgner, 2017;Walker et al, 2018;Yu, 2017).…”

Analysing cross-cutting competencies learning in an online entrepreneurship context

“…Nevertheless, the teacher provides them additional training, mainly reviewing aspects such as motivation and leader characteristics, the acquisition of responsibilities, and challenges. They all form the entrepreneurship process, characterised by the pursuit of opportunity, which follows a series of steps by combining knowledge and skills to enable value creation in fulfilling a market need (Pano & Gjika, 2020).…”

Digital Education Platforms as Catalysts for Entrepreneurial Ventures

“…Entrepreneurs have the ability to engage in just-in-time learning, which ensures that they acquire specific skills and knowledge at precisely the right moment. This real-time learning approach enables entrepreneurs to stay ahead of industry trends, overcome obstacles, and seize new opportunities (Pano & Gjika, 2020). Furthermore, digital education platforms act as dynamic tools for promoting a comprehensive understanding of entrepreneurship by seamlessly incorporating practical insights and real-world case studies into the learning experience (Hamburg et al, 2017).…”