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Opinion paper

How universities can build an open platform for in-

novation and entrepreneurship for college students?

Ignite the enthusiasm for creation, cultivate the team,

and support key projects

Wenkai Zhu

Xidian University, China.

* Correspondence: wkzhu@xidian.edu.cn

Abstract: Directly under the Ministry of Education, Xidian University

(XDU) is a national key university featuring electronic and information

science. XDU integrates innovation and entrepreneurship education

into the whole process of college students’ training combining the

characteristics of electronic and information science. Through the

three aspects of “Ignite the enthusiasm for creation, cultivate the team,

and support key projects”. XDU has cultivated the innovative spirit of

college students and improved their entrepreneurial ability and has

achieved outstanding results. This study aims to explore the scientic

and ecient working system in the innovation and entrepreneurship

education (IEE) of XDU. The case in this study is the project research

ndings of the Ministry of Education’s 2021 ideological and political

work in colleges and universities for the construction of young and

middle-aged core teams.

Keywords: Xidian University; Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Education; Higher education.

1. Introduction

Based in western China, XDU is a national key university

featuring electronic and information science. XDU cultivates colleges

students around the goal of “patriotic enterprising, innovative

thinking, a leader with an international perspective”. Through the

three aspects of “ Ignite the enthusiasm for creation, cultivate the team,

and support key projects”, XDU has cultivated the innovative spirit

of college students. By optimizing the educational environment for

innovation and entrepreneurship, XDU cultivates the innovative spirit

of college students, helps them establish entrepreneurial awareness

and improves their entrepreneurial ability (Ministry of education of

the people’s republic of China, 2021).

2. Ignite the Enthusiasm for Creation: Create a Platform for Science

and Technology Competitions that College Students Participate in

Widely, and Establish a Curriculum System that Covers all Students

Since 1988, XDU has held the “Spark Cup” extracurricular academic

and scientic and technological works competition for college students

for 34 consecutive years, with more than 10,000 college students

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Citation: Zhu, W. (2022).

Exploration on the integration

of innovation and entrepre-

neurship education into the

talent training system of

colleges and universities under

the background of double-

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Culture, 4(5), 58-61. hps://doi.

org/10.52428/27888991.v4i5.272

Received: February 11, 2022

Accepted: March 5, 2022

Published: June 29, 2022

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participating and submiing more than 3,000 works every year. XDU

forms a good atmosphere for college students to take the initiative to

practice and participate in innovation (Zhu, 2018). A large number of

willing and talented students emerged. XDU unies this competition

with the innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college

students, the national “Challenge Cup”, and the national electronic

design competition to form a hierarchical, progressive, and widely-

participated technology competition platform. XDU also designed the

“second transcript” system for college students, aiming to develop

their abilities.

XDU has opened nearly 100 courses related to innovation and

entrepreneurship. It has hired more than 110 outstanding entrepreneurs

as innovation and entrepreneurship mentors. About 66 joint laboratories

have been founded with multinational education corporations,

including Microsoft, IBM, Intel, SAP, etc. XDU has compiled 27

series of textbooks including “Entrepreneurship Management”, and

“Xidian Alumni Entrepreneurship Cases”, which are represented by

the well-known alumni Chuanzhi Liu. XDU integrates innovation and

entrepreneurship education into the whole process of talent training,

covering all college students (Zhao & Zhang, 2021).

3. Cultivate the Team: Organize Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Training Camps for College Students, and Set up School-enterprise

Cooperation Clubs

XDU actively explores a new mechanism for industry-university-

research collaborative innovation and education. In accordance with

the principle of combining “in-class and out-of-class, in-school and

out-of-school, innovation and entrepreneurship”, XDU organized a

college student innovation and entrepreneurship training camp. One

hundred students are selected for each training camp, and 8-credit

courses are oered under the basic requirement of “cultivating science,

emphasizing engineering, studying humanities, and integrating art”.

Under the guidance of innovation and entrepreneurship mentors, the

training camp carried out innovation and entrepreneurship practice

in the form of projects, which eectively promoted the improvement

of college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship ability (Wang &

Zhang, 2020).

XDU, together with well-known enterprises and research institutes

in the industry including Microsoft, Tencent, Huawei, and CETC Group

Corporation, has established 56 campus enterprise innovation and

entrepreneurship clubs. XDU has established nearly 200 innovative

and entrepreneurial teams, aracting more than 2,000 students to join.

Under the guidance of innovation and entrepreneurship mentors,

team members carry out the entrepreneurial practice by participating

in enterprise product development, project management, etc. This

not only helps companies improve their products but also eectively

enhances the engineering practice capabilities of college students’

innovation and entrepreneurship teams.

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4. Support Key Projects: Set up the “Principal Fund” and “Creative

Space” for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Support College

Students’ Entrepreneurial Projects with Market Prospects

Since 2014, XDU has focused on strengthening the support of

college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship and set up an

“Innovation and Entrepreneurship President Fund” of 10 million yuan

to especially fund entrepreneurial projects with a certain maturity and

feasibility. This method helps the team go through the initial stage

smoothly and supports its healthy and rapid growth.

At the same time, 37 national or ministerial-level laboratories

and R&D centers have been opened to all college students. XDU has

formulated and implemented a exible study system for students

who start their businesses. XDU integrates resources within the school

by focusing on building a 3,000-square-meter “ Creative space” with

electronic information features. This space has become a gathering

place for college students to help them generate ideas, manufacture

products, and aract investment (Liu, Zhao & Zhu, 2020).

In the past three years, XDU has won 445 international

awards, 543 national awards, and 4,280 provincial innovation and

entrepreneurship competition awards in various innovation and

entrepreneurship competitions. The school has more than 100 student

entrepreneurial teams, and student entrepreneurial companies have

received a total of 300 million yuan in corporate and venture capital. It

is worth mentioning that college students not only actively participate

in the process of scientic and technological innovation, but also pay

aention to the integration of technology and culture. The research

and development of “Huaxia Photo-Robot Shadow Play” which

participated in the “China Entrepreneurship Model” program was

reported by CCTV “News Network”.

5. Prospect

In the future, XDU will continue to integrate the innovation and

entrepreneurship education of college students during the whole

process of talent training, encourage college students to innovate and

start businesses to make sure more college students become doers and

entrepreneurs who take social responsibilities and actively participate

in the trend of the times (Cabero, 2019; Guachi, 2019).

Funding: This research received no external funding.

Conicts of Interest: The author declares no conict of interest.

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