Technology entrepreneurship has passed the first round of judging
ENUniversity based entrepreneurial education is facing a paradigm shift between the classical "business school" and the contemporary cross disciplinary "technology venturing" approach, mainly advocated by engineering schools and other than business school based communities. The conflict stands in between of structured "business planning and executing" following a tradition of management education, and "opportunity search and exploitation", following the tradition of Schumpeterian entrepreneurial thought, and general tradition of "search" and "method" common to cross disciplinary discoveries in science, and thus also very close to the nature of entrepreneurship. The latter seems to be a result of the cross disciplinary nature of entrepreneurshipwhere the entrepreneurship curriculum is built as a platform for interaction of variety of disciplines enhancing cross disciplinary thinking. Based on the original experientaial Technology Entrepreneurship education method, developed at Kaunas University of Technology, the paper aims to explore the relationship between sets of skills, knowledge and abilities targeted by the didactics of the course in order to provide meaningful implications for technology entrepreneurship curriculum design and implementation. The proposed method relies on sequential development of individual, team based and business related technology entrepreneurship competence, while appluing lean business model canvas as a unique methodology. The entire three levels of competence development build the framework for curriculum design, and course didactics, which aims to ensure cross disciplinary and cross-cultural approach via mixed group works, international curriculum design and teaching. The impact of the method was tested via student survey (at the beginning and at the end of the course).
