On the features of developing students’ entrepreneurial skills

The article emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurship as one of the key economic factors of production, analyzes the features of people engaged in entrepreneurial activity, overviews the ways of developing entrepreneurial skills. It has been found that the character traits of en-trepreneurs and managers have a lot in common. We should note, that there are also some dif-ferences in their character traits, so managers are not owners of enterprises, they are not innovators and their entrepreneurial skills are less developed. To determine the development of en-trepreneurial skills of students of the Institute of Economics and Management of Buryat State University, we were tested them first in the second year of study, then in the fourth year. The results of testing showed that half of the respondents want to become entrepreneurs. But the level of entrepreneurial skills, the so-called soft skills, is unsatisfactory. In light of this we recommend to introduce special discipline for students, create the right environment for startups, and pay more attention to self-tuition of future entrepreneurs.