Development of business students’ attitudes towards entrepreneurship between 2017–2018

[EN] This article presents the results of the development of the students’ entrepreneurial attitudes between the first and third semester. According to the findings, the attitudes towards entrepreneurship were quite positive in the beginning of the studies, and it seems that they remained at the same level during one year. Based on the findings, as a practical implication there is a need for monitoring pedagogical approaches and methods of the programme to make sure that they support enough the development of entrepreneurial attitudes. The entire development of entrepreneurial competences will be revealed by the next annual studiesKakkonen, M. (2019). Development of business students’ attitudes towards entrepreneurship between 2017–2018. En HEAD'19. 5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 19-27. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD19.2019.9213OCS192

Innovations in education

The world is changing at tremendous speed, generating pressure to rather conservative and tradition bound education principles and methods. Education often struggles to catch up with the pace of changes in the global, economy and technology driven world which is accompanied by the diversification of stakeholders’´ needs the education system should address. Today, innovativeness, connectivity and individuality are much more needed and required than just 10–20 years ago and one size fits all approaches doesn‘t work anymore. After all, as is often appealed nowadays, while students represent 25% or more of our population, they are 100% of our future. This book, as a result of the Innovation in education seminar, held on 17th and 18th of October 2017 at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences in Mikkeli, Finland, presents good practices and research results from three areas related to innovations in education: new –innovative education programs, innovative approaches to teaching and role of marketing in educational setting

Development and facilitation of innovative pedagogy in the Nordic–Russian context : Project report

The project of Development and Facilitation of Innovative Pedagogy in the Nordic–Russian Context was implemented in 2016. The main objective of the project was to develop and facilitate innovative pedagogy in the entrepreneurship and business study curriculum in higher education in the Nordic– ussian context by deepening the network cooperation of the four partner HEIs. The primary target group of the project was teachers of the partner universities. Demand for the proposed project activities was identified during the finished project on innovative entrepreneurship (NCMRU/10088) with the same composition of partner organisations. This publication consists of three parts: Part A describes the implementation of the project. The first article presents the whole project and the three following articles introduce the teaching training seminars conducted during the seminar. Part B introduces the educational systems of the partner countries and the current practices of the partners related to the teaching methods and collaboration with enterprises. Finally, Part C of the publication includes an introduction to innovation pedagogy and presents the innovative teaching methods piloted during the project. The innovative teaching methods described in the publication are either the current state of continuous development by the partner universities or being applied in the cross-cultural study environment in Finland, Denmark and Russia. The objective of this publication is not only to report the project outcomes, but to disseminate them and also to encourage teachers to use them open-mindedly. This publication provides a broad outlook on the international cooperation in the field of innovative education, contributing thus to the modernisation of the educational practices in Finland, Denmark and Russia. In conclusion, the modernisation of the European society in the XXI century is connected primarily with the continuous development of the European educational system. Concrete suggestions for such improvement with the use of innovative teaching methods in the cross-cultural educational environment are given in the publication and represent the practical contribution of the project to the European education

Intuition and entrepreneurs : a phenomenological study of managerial intuition of Finnish family entrepreneurs

Business environments have changed rapidly especially during the last decades. Nowadays there are many unpredictable and uncertain factors in managing businesses. In addition, rational thinking and decision-making based on facts and figures have traditionally been emphasised in business. However, due to the changing environments one can not always know facts well enough in order to be sure about the choices. Sometimes decisions have to be made very quickly, or there is no explicit knowledge regarding a problem, or there is neither enough time nor enough information. Therefore, managers, and entrepreneurs as managers, need to rely more often on their intuition in making decisions and solving problems.This study aimed at enhancing the understanding of the phenomenon of intuition in managerial work of family entrepreneurs. The research questions were formulated as follows: What is the essence of intuition experiences of family entrepreneurs in managerial work? How do managerial intuition experiences of family entrepreneurs appear?This qualitative study involved 19 Finnish family entrepreneurs. The empirical data collection method comprised phenomenological, in-depth interviews. The data analysis method adopted in the study was a phenomenological.Based on the findings, the essence of the managerial intuition involved three aspects called Social intuition, Opportunity intuition, and Action intuition. It seemed that some individuals had more intuition experiences than others. Further, it seemed that intuition appeared in different ways to different individuals and they made use of their intuitions in different ways in business. Female entrepreneurs did not have more intuition experiences, but they had more of one type of intuition, Social intuition, than males.Marja-Liisa Kakkonen tutki väitöskirjassaan, miten perheyrittäjät hyödyntävät intuitiota tehdessään päätöksiä johtamistyössä. Intuitio ilmenee eri yksilöillä eri tavoin, ja myös sen hyödyntämisessä on eroja. Intuitio ohjaa yleensä toimimaan oikein, mutta sen seuraaminen saattaa joskus johtaa myös epäonnistuneeseen lopputulokseen. - Intuitio koetaan pääsääntöisesti myönteisenä asiana. Sen hyödyntäminen on johtamistyöhön liittyvä taito, joka joillakin perheyrittäjillä on parempi kuin toisilla. Intuitiosta on kuitenkin vaikea puhua, ja sen käyttö ei näytä olevan yhtä hyväksyttävää johtamisessa kuin faktatietojen hyödyntäminen, Kakkonen huomauttaa.Intuitio ilmenee kolmella tavalla: sosiaalisena, liiketoimintamahdollisuuksiin ja toimintaan liittyvänä intuitiona. Naisilla ei ollut määrällisesti enempää intuitiokokemuksia kuin miehillä, mutta heillä korostui sosiaalisen intuition rooli. Miesten intuitio ilmenee tasaisemmin kaikilla kolmella tavalla. Miespuolisten perheyrittäjien intuition käyttöön liittyy myös taloudellisia riskejä, sillä se on vahvemmin yhteydessä liiketoiminnan päätöksentekotilanteisiin. Miesten sosiaalinen intuitio ilmenee puolestaan toisen ihmisen ominaisuuksien ymmärtämisenä esimerkiksi rekrytointitilanteessa.Perheyrittäjyyskontekstilla on vaikutusta intuition käyttöön. Perheyrittäjyys voi joko edistää intuition hyödyntämistä tai vähentää sen käyttöä johtamistehtävissä

Innovative teaching and learning methods in multicultural environments

Teaching in higher education institutions has altered from the traditional classroom teaching more towards new types of learning methods and environments which have been under a systematic development already for several years. Nonetheless, there is still a need for new innovative solutions in the learning process and outcomes. This publication, Innovative teaching and learning methods in multicultural environment, is a part of the Nordic-Russia project which aims at promoting innovative learning environments and methods in higher education. The publication reflects different kinds of innovative teaching and learning methods especially in the context of multicultural learning environments. This publication consists of 10 articles concerning teaching and learning in higher education institutions and multicultural projects. In addition, the publication reflects the perspectives of entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurship. What is remarkable is that there are personal experiences of the authors regarding teaching, learning and different types of learning environments in the articles. Furthermore, the authors have been involved in the project activities, which in turn makes the whole publication an experiencebased one. Further, it is assumed that this publication is very actual and essential. The potential audience comprises of teaching personnel interested in new types of teaching and learning methods, learning environments and experiences concerning international projects