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with other faculties who are willing to create business after studies and, at the same time,
one of the largest numbers of respondents who probably will not create their own business
or they don’t know (18.2 and 72.7 percent).
Conclusions
1. The concepts of entrepreneurship and creativity have a wide range of meanings.
Entrepreneurship as people’s propensity and ability to take the economic activity by
combining capital, labour and other economic resources, in order to obtain a profit and
assuming all of the activities associated risks. Creativity is the complex of personal
characteristics, allowing take initiative and achieve original, socially relevant results.
Traditional concept of creativity is related not only with art and culture but also with
inventions and discoveries, as well as business development and management.
2. The results of the research carried out at Vilniaus kolegija/University of Applied Science
highlight the importance of developing students’ entrepreneurial and creativity skills.
Most students at the Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies, Faculty of Economics,
Faculty of Business Management and Faculty of Health Care emphasized their
communication, planning and organizational skills, as well as responsibility, ability to take
risks for decisions and adaptation to changes. Students supported the idea of socially
responsible business and the use of innovations. Most respondents prefer the tasks
consisting all the information which is needed to achieve a goal. However, a large
number of the students at the Faculty of Agrotechnologies and Faculty of Arts and
Creative Technologies prefer to gather all the information about the problem given in the
task by themselves and then formulate an idea on how it could be solved.
3. The respondents studying at the Faculty of Business Management and Faculty of Arts and
Creative Technologies noted that their studies were contributing to developing students’
entrepreneurial and creativity skills. The competences highlighted by the students
studying in all faculties are the ability to communicate in Lithuanian language and use
technologies. However, social and political competences are not developed enough in all
faculties. More than half of respondents noted that the organizational culture of their
faculty encouraged openness and creativity of students.
4. Comparing with other faculties, a large number of the respondents studying at the
Faculty of Electronics and Informatics and Faculty of Agrotechnologies are willing to
create business after studies. However, the students studying in all faculties would like to
gain experience first and then create their own business. Students were asked to propose
the way how to effectively develop creativity skills. There were found the following
suggestions: use more business simulation, business games, more often analyse specific
business situations, closely communicate with successful entrepreneurs, develop creative
tasks for teamwork, and organize more discussions, competitions and other events
where students could express themselves.
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