TOPICAL ASPECTS OF THE FORMATION OF COMPETENCES IN THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE FRAMEWORK OF BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN ECONOMICS IN RUSSIA
Authors: Chudaeva Alexandra A. 
Published: October 2024

Background. Achieving the national goal of ‘technological leadership’ set by the President of the Russian Federation on 7 May 2024 is possible by combining the efforts of various state structures, public constructs, and entrepreneurs. One of the social institutions capable of setting development guidelines in this direction are universities. And not only training specialists in the field of technology, but also those who will work with these specialists in the team of the project, which will later be transformed into a functioning business. And such specialists, in particular, are economists, whose task is to ensure that the economics of a technological entrepreneurship (TE) project will allow to obtain financing for its implementation. This means that economists must be able to evaluate the economic efficiency of solutions embedded in a project with specific properties inherent in TA. And the key question arises - what disciplines and/or sections of disciplines should be incorporated into the basic educational programmes of universities in the direction of Bachelor's degree ‘Economics’ in order to form and develop the competences of students in the field of technological entrepreneurship. In this regard, it is necessary to find answers to a number of questions: whether the inclusion of disciplines on the economics and finance of technology companies in the curriculum can be considered sufficient to achieve this goal, or whether modern conditions require a different approach; what to focus on when selecting disciplines and their sections; how to provide the educational process with teachers who have relevant knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of technological entrepreneurship; what forms of organisation of the educational process and extracurricular activities of students are appropriate and appropriate; and what forms of the educational process and extracurricular activities of students.
Purpose - to investigate the issues of formation and development of competences in the field of technological entrepreneurship in Russian universities for Bachelor's degree students of the direction ‘Economics’ in modern conditions.
Materials and methods. In the course of the research we applied a systematic approach, methods of observation, comparison, synthesis, graphical presentation of information, as well as analysis of existing literature and regulatory documents on the topic and analysis of open statistical data. The article is based on such sources as: normative legal acts, statistical data, publications in the Internet, conference materials, periodicals.
Results. In order to achieve the national goal of establishing technological leadership in the Russian Federation, it is necessary to multiply the number of startup projects. One of the key areas for solving this task is to immerse university students in various aspects of technological entrepreneurship in order to develop their competences in this area and increase their readiness to become entrepreneurs both immediately after graduation and some time later.  To increase the number of students familiar with technological entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial competence trainings are organised within the framework of the Federal project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in cooperation with development institutions ‘University Technological Entrepreneurship Platform’. However, in order to increase the number of successful startups and improve the quality of their feasibility studies required for obtaining funding, it is necessary to incorporate disciplines and/or sections/themes of disciplines oriented to the formation of competences in the field of technological entrepreneurship and aimed at educating a socially responsible entrepreneur into the curricula of Bachelor's degree programmes in Economics. Teaching of such disciplines should be carried out by both the university teaching staff trained in TE and its various aspects, and representatives of business and various structures interacting with it in the framework of their professional activities, taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of both teachers and ‘practitioners’. In addition to the direct study of TE within the framework of the educational programme, it is advisable to use various formats of introducing students to its aspects outside the educational process - during excursions, round tables, master-classes, business games, etc. The students should be introduced to the aspects of TE within the framework of the educational process.