Development of entrepreneurship skills for Innovation driven career in Adaptronics

Abstract

The successful career of graduates, which focus on development and maintenance of adaptive systems, apart to the main background in electrical engineering, requires strong abilities to work with users of developed device, entrepreneurship skills, knowledge of marketing and ability to develop market oriented product. This paper demonstrates the approach, which encourages creative skills to build the prototypes of new products, motivates students to create new ideas for start-ups, and allows to develop entrepreneurship skills during the education process. The case study of the Riga Technical University RTU master level program “Adaptronics” concerning the development of entrepreneurship skills is described in this work. The case study of student’ survey at the University of Split is also discussed in the paper. The survey results demonstrate the students' level of entrepreneurial orientation in correlation with their working experience and their perception about opportunity to find a job after graduating the university.