International Scientific and Practical Conference "Electronics and Information Technologies" (ELIT-2018) A-34 Towards Creating Innovation Hub in IT- Strategy for Entrepreneurship Education at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Ihor Katernyak dept. of Electronics and Computer Technology at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Ukrainian Distance Learning System, Lviv, Ukraine e-mail: ikaternyak@udl.org.ua Abstract—Our strategy suggests developing Entrepreneurship Education (EE) together with eco- system for startups in the region. This requires: shared understanding of the need for EE among the key stakeholders and encouraged collaboration on establishing an Innovation Hub as IT Startup Accelerator; find and activate champions and establish implementation mechanisms to carry out strategies and policies through a set of coherent programmes; formulate and pilot entrepreneurship course with involvement of business experience, interactive teaching methods; expand via more advanced courses and help business angels to meet with talented students and graduates. IT Startup Accelerator “Innovation Hub” is to be created at the institutional level with the mission to provide support for idea development into a business concept, to invite business angels and venture capitalists for IT startups. Index Terms—entrepreneurship education, startup, innovation hub, strategy I. CURRENT STATUS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION Education and research at universities in Ukraine are structured around traditional subjects with a strong focus on natural science and basic engineering, where Ukraine has reached a high level in an international comparison. A shift from the culture of research that “can be applied” to “should be applied” requires the development of entrepreneurial mind- set in the academic community. Research is still not so often closely linked to cooperation with entrepreneurs, private investors and companies. A challenge is, besides entrepreneurial thinking, to open up the universities to the surrounding society and develop entrepreneurship eco-system. Benefits of entrepreneurship education are measured not only by the number of newly created ventures and jobs but also by the entrepreneurial capacity among students, which is the basis for national well-being and prosperity, competitiveness of the region. We conducted a survey at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (IFU) regarding EE at the University on the base of the European best practice [1]. The survey aimed to capture the students’ perspectives, and 220 students were involved in the survey: they filled in the questionnaire and were interviewed in order to assess their entrepreneurial intent, creativity and attitudes as well as the entrepreneurship perceived feasibility, perceived desirability and propensity to act, among others. The study of main teaching methods employed (where students in IT department rated the frequency of the given methods: from never – to often), gave the following findings presented in the Figure 1 below. Fig. 1. Teaching methods and approaches used in classes at IFU, Ukraine Thus, the results show that the dominant methods were students’ group work, presentations, and lectures, while company visits, simulations/mini companies and developing a prototype were hardly ever used in classes at the University. The analysed results show that the dominant methods include students’ group work, presentations, and lectures, while practitioner guest lectures, company visits, simulations/mini companies and developing a prototype are hardly ever used in classes at IFU. In terms of support, which the IT students would like to get from the University for their idea development in business,