Changes and innovations in the methods of Lithuania's student entrepreneurship development

The article analyses the methods applied to student entrepreneurship development, their variety and innovative application approaches. The authors in the study define and present the conceptions of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship development, as well as methods applied to entrepreneurship development, which are grouped into active and passive ones. Also, in research, the evaluation results of entrepreneurship development methods of Lithuanian students are summarised. The research aims to identify what methods of entrepreneurship development that have been implemented are the most important for students. In order to receive required information for a study, the survey method was employed. During the study, the questionnaires were distributed directly to students and alsosent by e-mails asking them to fill in the presented questionnaire. There were accumulated 420 questionnaires received from higher education institutions of Lithuania, i.e., from college and university students studying in Management or Administration studies. Having evaluated the results, it was concluded that active methods of entrepreneurship development are more valuablethan the passive ones. The authors came to a conclusion that in developing the features of entrepreneurship all methods are necessary and important, however, only when used in a general complex of development methods, i.e., not excluding unused methods too.