Improving Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Chinese Technical Universities: A Quest for Building a Sustainable Framework

Min Lv, Hong Zhang, Paul Georgescu, Tan Li and Bing Zhang
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Min Lv: School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou 213032, China
Hong Zhang: School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou 213032, China
Paul Georgescu: Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Iaşi, Bd. Copou 11A, 700506 Iaşi, Romania
Tan Li: School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou 213032, China
Bing Zhang: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou 213032, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: The global economic trends and the winds of technological change have elevated the status of integration between industry and education for innovation and entrepreneurship to that of being a national strategic priority of China. However, for a long time prior to that, the many differences between the industrial and educational systems have caused a rift between education for innovation and entrepreneurship and professional education, a profound disconnection between professional education and the local industries, and the subsequent disinterest of entrepreneurial mentors. In this paper, we analyze the status of education for innovation and entrepreneurship in Chinese technical universities. It is pointed out that technical universities should deepen the integration between the industry and education for innovation and entrepreneurship in order to mitigate the imbalance between the supply side of the higher education talent training and the demand side of industrial development. It is also argued that technical universities should change their talent training paradigm, which includes a makeover of the organizational structure and of the curricular system, as well as make amends in the innovation ecosystem with respect to the organization of incubation platforms and of teacher–student teams, in order to promote national and regional economic development, as well as social progress. A method to evaluate the performance of the education for innovation and entrepreneurship in Chinese technical universities, based on specific performance indicators including patents filled, publications, awards in competitions, and acquired funding and on certain non-specific ones including organizational arrangements and satisfaction rates, is presented and then applied to the specific case of the Changzhou Institute of Technology.

Keywords: education for innovation and entrepreneurship; talent training; organizational structure; curriculum system; teacher team; incubation platform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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