Teaching of innovation entrepreneurship: the development of a harmonious set of competencies in management, design and engineering

Successful teaching of entrepreneurship depends on how well an education program develops critical and very difficult to develop mental capabilities and personal competencies {in particular, creativity, and decisiveness at situations of uncertainty). The most critical are set of skills that enable to manage the process of a new product development at initial {«fuzzy-front end») stage, the stage of high uncertainty about customer profiles, the product design concept, its features and and engineering design. The paper is devoted to assessing and discussing the ability of graduates of MBA programs and master's programs on entrepreneurship without engineering or design background to manage the creation of innovative products and start-ups by using lean startup and «customer development approaches. Based on the results of empirical research carried out at the Laboratory of Innovative Business and Entrepreneurship {innovationStudio) and with the participation of global innovative companies and partners of the OIPEC international project, we create and test educational methods and interdisciplinary educational content to develop critical entrepreneurial competencies for innovative products development.