Various Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education: Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurship Support

The importance of entrepreneurship has boomed in several last decades. Currently, the new age ofentrepreneurship is discussed a lot. The new age is primarily connected to innovation and technologicaltrends. There are no doubts that entrepreneurship and its support has got into the focus of publicpolicies. One of the very efficient ways of supporting spreading of entrepreneurship is considereddevelopment of entrepreneurship education. Therefore, higher education institutions play a veryimportant role in the support and entrepreneurship development. Entrepreneurship education represents a strong mainstream which has the ability to raise nascent entrepreneurs, foster innovation and arrangea continuous flow of information and knowledge. Universities are perceived as agents of a valuablesource of skilled people who can be led to an entrepreneurial career. From universities it is expected touse innovative approaches in their teaching methods and curriculum in general. However, most of themrecognize this process of change very slowly. To better understand the current position of theentrepreneurship education and call for a change several experience and knowledge from the mostsuccessful universities can be used. The paper presents particular outcomes of entrepreneurshipresearch the V4 project V4 Scientific Centers for the Enhancement of Financial Literacy andEntrepreneurship Education and examples of entrepreneurship teaching methods used by two closeinternational partners of the Faculty of Economics of the University of West Bohemia. The examples ofentrepreneurship teaching methods are considered to be good model examples and can be used asinspiration for creating of own method of entrepreneurship education.