Entrepreneurship education features in Lithuanian universities

Abstract

This paper discuss entrepreneurship is a major driver of innovation, competitiveness and growth. Due to their strong presence in key sectors smaller enterprises and entrepreneurs today play a central role in the economy. A positive and robust correlation between entrepreneurship and economic performance has been found in many terms. Thus a great deal of attention is paid to entrepreneurship education research during the past years. The scientific problem of the article is the main entrepreneurship education features and possibilities in improving it. The purpose of the article is to make the analysis of basic entrepreneurship aspects and define its education features in Lithuanian universities according to the latest research. The main used methods are: analysis of scientific literature, analysis European law and order documents, latest research survey. The results have shown that universities should change some basics in teaching entrepreneurship in order to bring the better entrepreneurial skills for students.