Smart technologies in education and formation of entrepreneurial competencies

Abstract

Currently, the universities role in Russia is seriously changing: universities call up to become the locomotives of economic development in the region, using their potential in education and science. Special results are expected in process development through the commercialization of know-how created in higher educational institutions. The commercialization includes the entrepreneurship promotion. In order to increase competitiveness and fulfill a special mission, many Russian universities set such ambitious goals for themselves. In an entrepreneurial university, the commercialization of new knowledge is becoming one of the main goals, while educational activities are aimed at training of scientists, specialists having scientific knowledge, and entrepreneurs. The study purpose is to identify the needs of students learnt in the university in the formation of innovator’s competencies; substantiation of the possibility for using Smart-technologies in the development of entrepreneurial competencies in the industrial center of the Far East. As a result of the study, the motives of future graduates to engage in business activities were identified; the factors hindering the development of innovative entrepreneurial activity (IEA) were studied; as well as the need to obtain specific knowledge, abilities and skills at each stage of the IEA. It is shown that the formation of innovator’s competencies should be carried out with the help of Smart-education, using the network interaction (based on the triple helix model), a digital format system; student’s orientation to the priority trends of intellectual, scientific and process of the country and region development. The study results can be used by leaders of higher educational institutions to develop the entrepreneurial university functions.