The Department of Entrepreneurship was established to provide a methodical educational process in entrepreneurship at the UNWE with a view to building highly prepared entrepreneurs and managers in a dynamic business environment - including an international, multicultural one.

The staff of the department includes both young, with development potential, lecturers, and staff with extensive experience in teaching, research and consulting in the field of entrepreneurship and small business - professors, associate professors, senior assistants, as well as guest lecturers - professors and associate professors. Some of them hold important positions in our and international organizations supporting entrepreneurship and SMEs.

In their work, the teaching staff relies on the results achieved within the framework of national and international projects, training and consulting of companies. In this regard, the department works in close cooperation with the Institute of Entrepreneurship of the UNWE, where the lecturers are engaged in research projects.

The main scientific interests of the lecturers of the department are in the field of: creating and managing a new business, including the so-called. startup companies (enterprises with high growth potential); strategic entrepreneurial management and SME growth; entrepreneurial culture; business networks; psychology of entrepreneurial activity; digital business and marketing; specific types of entrepreneurship – youth, female, art and creative, social, corporate. The department participates in the training of bachelors, masters and doctoral students, as well as entrepreneurs and managers from practice. It has developed contacts with related departments and specialties at universities from different countries.

The department is well recognized not only nationally, but especially internationally through its publications, participation in international conferences and seminars, national and international projects. The department's lecturers have trained American students from Florida International University in Miami, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, students and entrepreneurs from technical universities in Mexico, entrepreneurs from Serbia and North Macedonia, and others.

Since 2024, the department, with the help of the Institute of Entrepreneurship of the UNWE, has been organizing summer schools in entrepreneurship for students from India.