Making the Entrepreneurial Mindset Visible

The objective of this thesis was to make the entrepreneurial mindset visible in the Degree Programme of Traffic and Transport Management, which is part of the Häme University of Applied Sciences, HAMK. The purpose was to find out what entrepreneurial skills and competences teachers recognize in their implementations, and if there are skills and competences they don’t recognize yet. The purpose was also to find out, if the entrepreneurial mindset can be seen in the degree programme. And finally, the last purpose was to find out points to be developed in entrepreneurial education in order to maintain or strengthen the entrepreneurial mindset. Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mindset are seen important maintainers of competitiveness and balancer of economy, but above all as an individual’s ability to develop on a personal level and as an active citizen. In the theoretical part, through the basic concept of entrepreneurship, one proceeds to entrepreneurship education and to entrepreneurial education. Skills and competences related to entrepreneurial education are described as the basis for a broader thinking, the entrepreneurial mindset. Finally, the frame of reference for the skills and competences, The Entrepreneurial Competence Framework, is presented. The skills and competences related to entrepreneurial education are well identified in the degree programme. There is a wide understanding of what the common features concerning entrepreneurial skills and competences in the degree programme are. The characteristic way of thinking constitutes a certain kind of entrepreneurial mindset