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of the entrepreneur are these: ability to take the lead, self-sufficiency, innovative skills,<br />

creativeness, enthusiasm, push, persistence, be a leader, overcome cumbers and<br />

communicativeness.<br />

Traditionally, creativity is not only linked to the arts and culture, but also to inventions,<br />

which belong to the field of research, industry, manufacturing, commerce, management of<br />

organizations. These definitions are used in different ways: creativity applies not only to the<br />

creators in the sphere of art or literature, but also for entrepreneurs and managers, who are<br />

flexible, independent, who are able to adapt and take initiative.<br />

Creativity is the complex of personal characteristics, allowing achieve original, socially<br />

relevant results. This is the mental and social process consisting of the generation of new<br />

ideas and concepts or new relationship and interaction of the known ideas and concepts [5].<br />

Traditional concept of creativity is related not only with art and culture but also with<br />

inventions and discoveries, as well as business development and management. Encyclopedia<br />

of Creativity distinguishes the following types of creative people: adaptors and innovators,<br />

creators of ideas and concepts, who are able to optimize and implement them, inventors,<br />

single introverts and sociable extroverts [4]. There are many types of creativity. Expressive<br />

spontaneity refers to the free development of ideas without worrying about their<br />

usefulness. Technical creativity refers to the creativity based on excellence of the<br />

performance. Creativity of adaptation refers to the innovative adaptation of known things.<br />

Innovative creativity refers to the extension of known principles. Creativity of inventions<br />

refers to the offering of new principles. Creativity can be understood as an improvisation, as<br />

well as a product development in various fields: art, inventing and engineering, science,<br />

management and business of daily life.<br />

Results of the research of entrepreneurship and creativity<br />

Figure 1 shows that 90 percent of respondents think that it is important to develop<br />

entrepreneurship skills. Most students at the Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies,<br />

Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Business Management and Faculty of Health Care pointed<br />

to the importance of developing of students’ entrepreneurship skills (96.3, 95.1, 94.1 and<br />

94.1 percent). The largest number of the respondents who chose answers “absolutely not<br />

important”, “not important” and “don’t know” was at the Faculty of Electronics and<br />

Informatics (27.3 percent) and Faculty of Agrotechnologies (26.9).<br />

Faculty of Health Care<br />

Faculty of Business Management<br />

Faculty of Pedagogy<br />

Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies<br />

Faculty of Economics<br />

Faculty of Electronics and Informatics<br />

Faculty of Agrotechnologies<br />

78.2<br />

72.7<br />

73.1<br />

94.1<br />

94.1<br />

96.3<br />

95.1<br />

21.8<br />

27.3<br />

26.9<br />

5.9<br />

5.9<br />

3.7<br />

4.9<br />

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%<br />

Very important / Important<br />

Absolutely not important / Not important / Don't know<br />

Figure 1. The importance of developing students’ entrepreneurship skills.<br />

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