Entrepreneurship promotion
Various actors have built a network of entrepreneurial
activities in the Hämeenlinna subregion, ranging from the
entrepreneurship education offered in state schools and vocational
institutions all the way to supporting SME operations. The
objective is to achieve entrepreneurship readiness at every level,
which itself feeds development:
- Comprehensive and upper secondary schools: fostering
entrepreneurship-friendly values and attitudes, and promoting
familiarity with entrepreneurship as a concept.
- Lower-level vocational institutions: raising awareness of
entrepreneurship as a career option, teaching the basics of
business operation.
- HAMK University of Applied Sciences and University of
Tampere: promoting knowledge of entrepreneurship and
encouraging entrepreneurship, drawing up personal business
plans.
- Those starting a new business and those taking over an
existing business: raising awareness of entrepreneurial
competences, building up the motivation to succeed and to
evolve and develop the business, strengthening
business-operation skills.
- Growing, developing and internationalising businesses:
raising awareness of social-responsibility issues, fostering
the desire and developing the ability to expand, teaching
high-level business-operation skills.
The preconditions and procedures need to be improved at every
level in accordance with the regional objectives. There is a
need to further clarify the roles of different actors as the basis
of the concrete measures. The goal in every level is to further
educate and train teachers, lecturers and business advisors.