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Østfold University College Faculty of Engineering
Hong Wu & Gunnar Andersson
Østfold University College,
Sarpsborg, Norway
Lei Shihe, Zheng Bingzhang, Wang Ni
Shijiazhuang University of Economics, Hebei, 050031 China
[email protected]@163.com [email protected]
Exploration and Practice of Quality Education on Students’ Entrepreneurship
and Scientific Innovation
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• Education on the scientific innovation and entrepreneurship is becoming more important in China
• Strong need for the talents with creativity on the international level
• Innovation has already become “the main cantus” of reforming the higher education of the 21st century in China
• An example of education on students’ entrepreneurship and scientific innovation in Shijiazhuang University of Economics
• The appreciation of the students’ multiple skills and abilities, their skills of cooperation for incubating and promoting for creative and innovative work
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The Actions of Creating an Atmosphere for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Shijiazhuang University of Economics (SUE) has practiced a number of detailed actions to complete the innovation and entrepreneurship education and these actions are:
· Forming the value of quality education oriented to innovation
· Developing the basic role of “room class”
· Relying on the innovative activities of communities and social practice
· Building a system of evaluation on students’ quality education
· Creating a distinctive cultural atmosphere on campus
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• It is said that the study of the theoretical knowledge is performed in “room class”, then the assimilation, application and improvement of it should be achieved in “practice class” which including a series of extra-curricular activities, activated in leisure time, defined as “communities”.
• There are more than 50 communities on all kinds of fields, such as theoretical study, social science, science and technology, literature and arts, voluntary work, physical training, etc. in SUE. More than 7000 students equivalent to 60% of the whole join those communities.
• The SUE students are required to complete not less than 10 credits on their voluntary/optional courses and 10 credits on their engagement on innovative activities of communities and social practice. These two elements together are counted more than 10% of their compulsory credits for their entire progress at SUE.
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Activities Requirement
Content and evaluations Credits(1 SUE = 3 ECTS)
Responsible Unit
Ethics Individual mark of excellenceTotal mark to whole class for excellence and good
0.5/year1.0/student1.5/class representatives
Student union and faculties
Information and policy
Compulsory
Participation of (at least 3) organized activities
0.5/year Youth League and faculties
Social practice and competence
Compulsory
Participation of (at least 3) social practice and submit reports
1.0/participation Youth League and faculties
Culture and technology
Voluntary Awarded 3 first titles at university competitionsAwarded 5 first titles at provincial competitionsAwarded 6 first titles at national competitionsParticipation and submission research reportsPublishing research paper on a research journal Awarded national patent
1.0/participation1.0/participation1.0/participation0.5/report3.0/report3.0/report
Study administration, R&D department,Youth League and faculties
SUE students innovative activities of communities and social practice
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Entertainment and sport
Voluntary Participation of university competitions/events Participation of provincial competitions/events Participation of national competitions/events
0.2/participation0.5/participation1.0/participation
Youth League and faculties and sport unit
Event organizing
Voluntary Excellent contribution at the university’s arrangementParticipation of the university’s arrangementOrganizing the university’s arrangement
0.5-1.5/participation0.2/participation0.5/participation
Youth League and faculties
Social groups Voluntary Basically, every student is required to participate in at least one social group, but not more than two groups each year
0.5/year Youth League and faculties
Others Voluntary Awarded any certificate (for example accounting certificate, lawyer license, driving license, etc.)
2.0/certificate Study administration, Youth League and faculties
SUE students innovative activities of communities and social practice
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To constitute and perfect the organization and relevant policy for entrepreneurship and innovation
In this case, the following aspects are taken into account:
• Establishing a supportive headquarter that leading students’ entrepreneurship and innovation over the university.
• Making the Student Scientific Association to exert, support those student scientific communities with a good prospect, pursue regular researches and scientific exchange, solve key problems and invent, and provide students a “Challenge Journal” for exchanging ideas and information, in order to incubate students’ scientific and cooperation spirit.
• Encouraging professors to absorb students to join their projects.• Establishing a special foundation to support students to carry out
entrepreneurship and innovation projects, and• Legitimating and institutionalizing an encouragement policy to excellent students
who get good results in entrepreneurship and innovation.
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• “Challenge Cup”– A national business plan annual competition for students from all universities in China, but also open for others
• First competition started in 1998
• Last year the competition was jointly organized by Xiamen University and the Xiamen municipal government, in South China
• 40 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other professionals were involved in evaluating the 100 business plans from 77 universities/colleges across China
• The SUE students took part in every match and got good results with Silver once and Bronze Medal twice for 2004 competition
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Year Attending teams
Attending persons
Provincial award Awarded persons
National competition Awarded persons
1999 2 18 Silver medal once 9
2000 7 39 1st prize once2nd prizes 3 times3rd prizes 3 times
91314
Bronze medal twice 15
2001 7 29 1st prize once2nd prizes twice3rd prizes 4 times
71223
2002 5 23 1st prize once2nd prizes once3rd prizes once
555
Bronze medal twice 10
2003 10 52 Outstanding prize once1st prize twice2nd prizes 3 times3rd prizes 3 times
5111818
2004 28 168 Outstanding prize once1st prize 6 times2nd prizes 2 times3rd prizes once
636116
Silver medal onceBronze medal twice
612
SUE students annual challenge cup participations and their awards from provincial and national competitions.
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In order to enhance student multiple making and cultivate the capacities of their entrepreneurship and scientific innovation, some main aspects should be grasped:
• Abortively perform market investigation and meanwhile find out the market requirements and select the useful projects.
• Special topic training and incorporate learned knowledge and the one should be studied together.
• Originality selection. Really recording inspiration and reasonably selecting the originality design.
• Organize the teams and re-inquire on special market requirement, and
• Write and consummate the production, evaluate and judge them.
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International Cooperation - Absorb advanced concept and approach of education on entrepreneurship and scientific innovation
• Learning the concept and technique of education on entrepreneurship and scientific innovation, exchange the experience, organize the international team and develop the innovation program (joint research project 2005)
• SUE has cooperated in education on entrepreneurship and innovation to Chinese students and abroad with Østfold University College of Norway (seminars with Norwegian visiting professors)
• The international team has done the program using the Internet, the cooperative online project has benefited both sides through a co-authored research paper, published at an international conference in 2001
• The dissemination of Norwegian guest lecturer in autumn 2004 has also contributed greatly for promoting SUE and China for Norwegian publicity
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• The cooperation between both sides also provides opportunities for comparative analysis for further research based study
World region North America Europe Asia/Australia
Latin America Africa
Established since
1983-1989 4 0 0 0 0
1990-1999 21 15 5 0 0
2000-2004 16 9 10 4 1
Total competitions
41 24 15 4 1
AN OVERVIEW OVER WORLDWIDE BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITIONS
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AN OVERVIEW OVER WORLDWIDE BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITIONS
• North America, especially USA keeps the leading position
• This region also has a powerful driving force for this innovation and entrepreneurship based education program
• There is strongly growing competitions arranged in Europe and Asia/Australia
• There are total 15 competitions arranged in Asia/Australia, hereof 6 by the Chinese speaking regions (3 in Singapore, 2 in Hong Kong and 1 in Mainland China)
• SUE is annually attending the competition in Mainland China
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There is slightly difference between Chinese (SUE) and Norwegian (HIOF) competitions
• Names – Challenge Cup (Ch) vs. Venture Cup (No)
• Reward – Medal/Credit of study (Ch) vs. Cash (No)
• Content – Showcase/focus on business plan (Ch) vs. Taking the business idea from concept to actual startup (No)
• Focus – Economics and human resource focused (Ch) vs. Product and business concept focused (No)
• However, both sides emphasize the market opportunities and consider it as the basic element for all others
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Some experiences of this practice are summarized as follows:
• The student, who intends to have a successful career in future, should prepare himself/herself now and become more innovation thinking and ability.
• It is should be realized that students taking part in the entrepreneurship and innovation is not only to meet the requirement of enhancing their own quality or ability, but to adapt themselves to catch up with the development of the society as well.
• Advancing the students’ quality and multiple abilities should be more included in our education concept, instructing technique, subject construction and course design, etc.
• The knowledge is the treasure, which the mankind commonly possesses. It is, therefore, very important to strengthen international exchange and cooperation for incubating and promoting the students’ creative and working abilities, especially in education internalization and economy globalization nowadays.