Technocreativity, Social Networks and Entrepreneurship: Diagnostics of Skills in University Students

Abstract

This paper presents the first exploratory results of a research integrated in a more global project on digital and entrepreneurial skills of students at the University ***. The study reveals gaps in professional skills such as problem solving, strategic thinking and creativity. For this reason, a pedagogical pro-ject is created integrating the use of social media in training (entrepreneur-ship), research (knowledge management) and university transfer. The aim is to develop skills in digital talent, (techno)creativity and to implement work methodologies, such as design thinking and growth hacking. In addition, it will encourage self-learning of the students, improve their e-competences, creative capacity and practical skills for a better adaptation to the needs of social demand, where knowledge transfer generates development and growth scenarios (startup) and fosters innovation (competitive capacity). This inno-vative initiative will enable Higher Education students to acquire the most demanded skills in a multidisciplinary labour market that also requires spe-cific ones in creativity, strategic capacity, project management, product in-novation, solution generation and entrepreneurship. This is what forms the basis of an integral project of triangular synergy between University, Busi-ness and Society.

Problems of developing entrepreneurial competence of students in vocational educational institutions of Ukraine

“…The aim of the research is to develop digital competences of the students, this will encourage their self-learning, improve creative potential and practical skills for better adaptation to social needs. The work also points out the need for three-way synergy of education, business and society to achieve sustainable results [3].…”

The Relationship Between College Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention and the Teaching Quality of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice

“…Ever since Chinese premier Li Keqiang has put forward the initiative of "Mass entrepreneurship and innovation" at the summer Davos Forum in September 2014, Chinese people's enthusiasm for I&E has been raised to an unprecedented level [1][2][3][4][5], the college students with professional knowledge have gradually become the main force in the entrepreneur group, and an active entrepreneurial intention is conductive for college students to carry out entrepreneurial activities that are beneficial to social development [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. In China, colleges and universities have invested a lot in college students' I&E education, however, in existing curriculum, the proportion of practice class is still much less than that of theory class, so its role is quite limited; moreover, there're other unsolved issues with the I&E education of college students, such as the incomplete course system, the incoherent teaching links, and the poor operation of the mechanism, etc.…”

Qualitative Analysis Method for Training of College Students’ Entrepreneurial Resilience from the Perspective of Entrepreneurial Ecological Environment

“…College students have relatively rich knowledge reserves and also creativity which is lacked by other high-level intellectuals, but they also need to be psychologically ready for the great risks and challenges of entrepreneurship. Having entrepreneurial resilience will help college students actively cope with the inevitable setbacks and pressures they will face in the entrepreneurial process [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Due to the constraints of the entrepreneurial ecological environment and the heterogeneity of the individual college students and their interpersonal relationships and situations, some specific problems like psychological potential development and stress buffering effect in the process of college students' entrepreneurial resilience cultivation have not been fundamentally resolved [16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”