?Possibilities to Support Entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

摘要

Development of entrepreneurship and stable institution environment are today understood as key elements of sustainable economic development. Many experts in the field of economics and politics anticipate a dynamic increase in entrepreneurship in the 21 century. Realizing that entrepreneurship is crucial for the companies who want to be competitive worldwide, the European Commission pays special attention to support entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial skills have been included into key competencies in the field of education and training and should therefore be acquired continuously within all stages of education, starting from primary through secondary up to the university institutions, including lifelong learning. Only well trained teachers are able to support the important attributes such as responsibility, creativity, initiative, sense for team work and others. These attributes with knowledge and skills from the area of entrepreneurship are one of the main presumptions that students will be successful at the job market. This is one of the reasons for the change in education system. Teaching process should be focused on entrepreneurship skills. The paper mentions examples of good practice in the form of research results which dealt with development of students' entrepreneurship skills at secondary schools and universities. Surveys were conducted at secondary schools and universities in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Particular training of future teachers of specific subjects (economic and technical) seems to be very important.