Enhancing Vietnamese Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindset and Creativity by Design Thinking Application

Abstract

In recent years, more and more attention and concerns are paid on how students should be educated as global citizens with required characteristics of the unforeseen future society. Among the most crucial competencies that future workforce should acquire, it is necessary to focus on developing students’ creativity and entrepreneurial mindset. In this paper, authors-lecturers from different universities in Vietnam National University (VNU) have piloted the model of Design Thinking in different disciplines at different member universities of Vietnam National University, Hanoi with the purpose to foster such essential skills for Vietnamese students in the 21st century. With the illustration of applying Design Thinking in different scenarios such as psychology, education, physical training, folklore and information technology, this paper reports the initial and positive results of Design Thinking application at Vietnam National University context. It is recommended from the paper that if lecturers introduce and encourage students to apply Design Thinking process in their learning, it will help to foster their creativity and entrepreneurial mindset, which are essential for students to succeed in the 21st century.