Highly competitive labor market stimulates increasing expectations towards fresh university alumni. It is not enough to be an expert - well educated and often experienced - in chosen discipline. High variability of the business environment, continuous change, number of risks, together with higher work demand than supply, shape clear employers’ expectations: entrepreneurial employees are wanted. On this ground a need for entrepreneurial education arises to be promptly delivered to engineering schools. Polish Academia for years continues implementing different methodologies and approaches. One of the most recent, introduces design thinking and incorporates it into teaching curricula of the leading technology universities in Poland. This article reflects on design thinking as a vehicle for introduction of entrepreneurial mindset to engineers. Its main value lies in discussion of design thinking teaching outcomes within the qualifications framework. It implies that introduction of design thinking to engineering studies curricula may be universities’ expressway in delivering highly specialized and at the same time entrepreneurial employees to the labor market.
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- Category
- Publikacja monograficzna
- Type
- rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2014
