Technological Entrepreneurship Course as a Driver for Generating Startups at Astana IT University

For growing part of National Economy and Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 programs educating high-tech entrepreneurs have been recognized as the important driving force for national innovation. Additionally, the integration of business studies with rising IT sector creates a new niche in the market to be filled with talented graduates of IT and related majors and contributes to the development of economy and creation of extended labor places. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of high-tech entrepreneurial activities of several IT educational programs to bring it to productivity of new startups at the cycle of implementation. In literature review authors have investigated on teaching similar module at different universities and methods applied within these courses. For the purposes of this research, there were considered 2 hypotheses which were successfully proved as a result of chosen quantitative methodology – the survey with 70 students-participants. To draw conclusions on findings, there were also addressed suggestions of students that were used as recommendations of authors to improve the quality and content of the course of Technological Entrepreneurship that is a compulsory to all major at Astana IT University.