GEORGIA: ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMY - ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

Entrepreneurship and innovation are basics of firms' and countries' competitiveness, economic development, and economic growth. Entrepreneurial economy roots in entrepreneurship education. In modern societies the role, function and mission of universities have been changed dramatically. With their traditional function of teaching / training and R&D, universities have to take the lead in the knowledge / technology transfer process. The best organization form to realize new mission is University Business Incubator model (UBI). UBIs operate as a bridge between entrepreneurial economy and entrepreneurship education. The article analyses entrepreneurship characteristics of Georgian economy and current situation on UBIs. The road to future actions are proposed.