UNIVERSITY'S SUPPORT FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDENT'S ACTIVITIES

The article brings the inspiration of different ways how to teach and develop creativity in university surroundings and how these activities could be improved. Universities have an important role in the knowledge economy era and are also vital for contribution of innovation systems through their activities such as developing skilled human capital, transferring knowledge and skills to the society. Therefore it is necessary to support student's activities connected with the entrepreneurship. All bigger towns in the Czech Republic have some forms of coworking support for the starting entrepreneurs cooperating with universities and research centers. Some of them are actually startups, some of them are support by the European Union or private companies, regions and universities. The realized research demonstrates dependency between the student's entrepreneurial activities and the universities surroundings encouraging these activities.