Preliminary study on the perception of the skills needed for entrepreneurship in doctoral courses: the point of view of students and teachers
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https://doi.org/10.62758/re.v2i2.122Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, Competences, Doctoral StudiesAbstract
The origin of this work lies in the ProPhD project, funded under the H2020-Swarfs programme that started in 2020 and whose objective is to implement innovative collaborative methodologies that enable doctoral students to acquire the theoretical background and skills necessary to develop their entrepreneurial project, regardless of their discipline. The ultimate goal of the project is the creation of a platform and the development of methodologies for learning in entrepreneurship. Therefore, this work is based on the teaching of entrepreneurship in doctoral programmes, in order to detect the differences between the two groups, with the aim of being able to design innovative training programmes and methodologies for entrepreneurship training. To this purpose, a mixed methodology has been applied, based on questionnaires and interviews with teachers and doctoral students. Among the most outstanding results are the discrepancies between students and teachers on the main contents of the courses, especially between certain specific competences, such as motivation or resources attraction.
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