Developing entrepreneurial skills for students through the collaborative approach between academia and economics

Abstract

Launching own business contributes to industry and national economy as well as to permanent personal evolution. The future vision of young generation is not to work in large enterprises, but to be professionally independent. Most of them has a dream about own business. The textile and leather Moldovan industry represented mostly by micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises. In that case the objective for university curricula is not only formation the professional skills to students, but at the same time is to develop entrepreneur skills for launching own business. The attractiveness of starting own business can be cultivated in different ways: In class and by case study of success story of some small companies owned by young people. University studies have an important role for personality formation of young specialists, the view about their contribution to the society development and, is important to establish the network with textile and leather manufacturers. The subject of this paper is to present the collaborative approach regarding entrepreneurial education methodology developed for the textile-leather field.