In recent years, Nantong University has actively built an all-round chain innovation and entrepreneurship education system by strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship education, skills training and results incubation, effectively enhancing students' entrepreneurial awareness, innovative spirit and creativity, cultivating nearly 1,000 innovative and entrepreneurial backbones every year, and helping students register nearly 50 enterprises.
All-round, seeking "double innovation" to educate people
"We adopt the ternary mode of booking, purchasing and distribution, and remove the intermediate circulation link, which not only reduces the loss cost of fruit, but also ensures the freshness of fruit." Shen Jianxiang said that the success of Downton Orchard benefited from the basic courses he learned in school to understand entrepreneurship.
"University education, as a highland for talent cultivation, a concentrated place and an important source of innovative resources, should activate college students' innovation and entrepreneurship genes in all directions." Cheng Changchun, secretary of the Party Committee of Nantong University, positioned the training of "double innovation" talents in this way. In order to encourage students to innovate and start businesses, the school has set up an innovative and entrepreneurial curriculum system that combines compulsory courses such as e-commerce, service marketing, understanding enterprises and starting your own enterprises, and open courses and online courses. Among them, innovation and entrepreneurship education and quality development education, which account for 12 credits, are one of the basic indicators for students to graduate. The school has formed a strong atmosphere of scientific and technological innovation through a series of scientific and technological activities, such as three-innovation training camp, career planning competition and entrepreneurial simulation practice, and rooted the seeds of innovation and entrepreneurship in the hearts of students.
The school also co-ordinates three teaching teams, namely, professional teaching, theoretical research and education management, and provides personalized guidance to students from the aspects of technology and management. Nantong Green Embroidery Crafts Co., Ltd., founded by Gu Yanfeng, a 201/grade student of the School of Public Health, has no clear target customers and can only be sold by mobile. With the help of Professor Guo Biyu, an entrepreneurial tutor, the company has eliminated the blind spots of marketing and other majors and explored the core competitiveness of products consisting of "patents, model libraries and award-winning certificates". Up to now, the company has received orders of several hundred thousand yuan and is applying for four design patents. Entrepreneurial instructors escort the students who have just set foot on the journey. At present, Nantong University has more than 200 internationally certified entrepreneurial coaches, national vocational instructors, entrepreneurial consultants and other entrepreneurial instructors.
Attach importance to practical training, and innovation leads entrepreneurship.
Nantong University has integrated innovation and entrepreneurship training into teaching and research, and established a professional innovation and entrepreneurship studio. On campus, the teaching and research laboratory is fully open, changing from a single experimental function to a comprehensive innovation and entrepreneurship practice platform; Outside the school, Industry-University-Research cooperated with schools and enterprises to build a "practice, training, entrepreneurship and employment" base.
The school moved the enterprise into the campus. The College of Geographical Sciences and Jiangsu Pacific Communication Technology Co., Ltd. jointly established the "Spatial Data Analysis Practice Training Room", which allowed students to directly participate in enterprise management and operation, and solved the urgent technical needs of "GIS visualization" and "GIS system design" of enterprises. At the same time, the topic is used as a medium to guide students to directly participate in local construction. Yijiang Studio of the Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture combines the protection of modern industrial remains of Tangzha with a modern and convenient lifestyle, so that the natural and social systems covering industrial landmarks, cultural memory and historical presentation are completely integrated.
At present, Nantong University has 14 on-campus entrepreneurship education base, 17 innovation practice base, 41off-campus teaching practice base and 539 employment and entrepreneurship practice base, covering arts, science, technology and medicine, with 790 funded projects and more than 3,500 students. The concept of innovation and entrepreneurship is integrated into the blood of every student.
"This training platform not only gives me a clearer understanding of the application of professional knowledge, but also gives me the idea of developing products." Yong Dong Sai, a 20 1 1 student majoring in communication engineering in School of Electronic Information, and his team are cooperating with American pathologists to develop the world's first ultrasonic dehydrator. This project will fill the gap in the rapid processing of human tissue samples in the market, and can quickly process human samples in large quantities, so that the test results that originally took several days can be obtained on the same day.
A number of initiatives to promote the incubation of results
Standing in front of the wall covered with company trademarks and imagining a vaguely visible but challenging future is the driving force for every entrepreneur who works hard in the university science park to dream. As the first demonstration creative space in Nantong, Nantong University focuses on building an incubator system for entrepreneurial projects and creating a maker space of "one camp, one library and one nursery". "One camp" means "innovation and entrepreneurship training camp"; "One Library" means "Innovative and Creative Entrepreneurial Project Library"; "One nursery" means "entrepreneurial nursery". The school has also set up a service center for college students' entrepreneurship management, which regularly provides "one-on-one" guidance to students' entrepreneurial enterprises to ensure that project incubators, institutions, venues and funds are in place. The Science Park holds roadshows every week, inviting well-known domestic investment institutions to be on-site judges, getting financial and technical help, and after half a year's rapid incubation, helping them survive smoothly.
"Entrepreneurial teams in the Science Park can be rent-free for at least one year, and the venture capital is not capped. The school will allocate funds for outstanding projects with potential. " Yao Chunlei, deputy director of the school's work department and director of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Center, said that since the establishment of 20 10, the school's college student venture fund has invested more than 300,000 yuan in venture capital. In addition, the school has also set up a special fund for innovative training for college students, a special fund for entrepreneurship education for college students, a fund for growth and development of college students, and a seed fund for science and technology parks, and jointly set up a venture fund with Nantong Municipal Government, Huaxia Bank and other units, totaling more than 25 million yuan.
"Young students are imaginative and creative, and they are a new force in innovation and entrepreneurship. They should be at the forefront of' mass entrepreneurship and innovation'. " Cheng Chun, president of Nantong University, said. Nowadays, in Nantong University Science Park, college students have successfully registered 2 1 company with a registered capital of 69 1 10,000 yuan.