How to teach Entrepreneurship: Results of the new teaching methodology in the Course „Creating Innovative Companies” with graduate students (Jak uczyc przedsiebiorczosci – wyniki nowej metodyki nauczania przedmiotu „Tworzenie innowacyjnych firm” wsrod studentow)

In this paper we described the course “Creating innovative companies” (6 ECTS credits) and the entrepreneurial profile of the students. The course is taught in the fourth year of the Business Administration and Management Degree, at the Faculty of Economics and Business, in the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). We deal with its justification and its place in the degree, skills and objectives, program and content, activities (individual practical work, optional seminars, preparation and presentation of a business plan) and the teaching methodology, which emphasizes autonomous individual and group work, scheduled work sessions (entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, business ideas, business plan), the evaluation criteria and grading. The socio-demographic profile of the students is also presented in terms of gender; age; nationality (with a high representation of foreign students); family background; student entrepreneurial self-perception; desirability, feasibility, and intention of creating a business; and student perception of risk. The questionnaire used is based on models by Shapero (1982), Ajzen (1987) and Krueger (2007). We also presented students’ evaluation of the methodology (preparation of activities, the methodology itself, the usefulness of learning activities, group work) and of the course (usefulness, interest, content, materials, assessment criteria, professors, etc.) and the achieved academic results. The findings will help us improve the adjustment of the methodology used, generating good practices that will result in a more efficient achievement of the course objectives. On the other hand, and more importantly, we would allow for knowing the impact of the training on student entrepreneurial intentions.