Entrepreneurship and innovation

Stakeholders’ role in entrepreneurship education and training programmes with impacts on regional development

At present, major universities are actively carrying out innovation and entrepreneurship education courses to develop the creative potential of college students. In order to analyze the impact of participation in entrepreneurship and innovation education on college students’ creativity, the study took students from a certain province as a research sample, conducted a follow-up survey, and analyzed the current students’ creativity level and participation in entrepreneurship and innovation education. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression was used to analyze the impact of entrepreneurship and innovation education on college students’ creativity. In order to enhance the credibility of the results, the propensity score matching method (PSM) was also used to verify the impact of participation in entrepreneurship and innovation education on students’ creativity. The analysis results show that the current creativity score of college students in my country is 107.6, which is at an average level; students who do not participate in entrepreneurship and innovation education have the lowest creativity score, and students who are rich in imagination and dare to take risks are more willing to actively participate in entrepreneurship and innovation education. OLS regression and PSM results show that participation in entrepreneurship and innovation education will significantly and positively affect the creativity of college students. Among them, active participation and both types of participation have significant effects on college students’ creativity, while passive participation has no significant effect. Therefore, colleges and universities need to carry out entrepreneurship and innovation education in a variety of ways, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of students to participate, and improve the level of students’ creativity. Specific recommendations include developing interactive hands-on courses, motivating students to participate in innovation competitions and entrepreneurial activities, and providing guidance and resource support to promote personalized development.

This paper explores the impact of innovation and entrepreneurship education on the mental health of medical students, and provides a basis for enhancing their mental health status. A total of 1200 medical students from three colleges and universities in Jilin province were selected as the investigation objects and a self-made questionnaire was used to compare the mental health of medical students before and after mass entrepreneurship and innovation education. After mass entrepreneurship and innovation education, the total score of GHQ-20 and the scores in all dimensions were improved, which were statistically significant compared with those before the intervention (P < 0.05). The regression results showed that interpersonal communication, social support and emotional intelligence were the main factors influencing mental health before mass entrepreneurship and innovation education, and interpersonal communication, social support and self-efficacy were the main factors influencing mental health after mass entrepreneurship and innovation education (P<0.05). Innovation and entrepreneurship education can improve the mental health of medical students to some extent.

PurposeThis study aims to understand how entrepreneurship education and training programmes (EETPs) influence the development of entrepreneurial competencies and creation of business ventures.Design/methodology/approachThe study included a questionnaire distributed to 103 EETP participants. The data were processed using SmartPLS software to construct a structural equation model.FindingsThe results show, first, that the respondents’ motivations have a positive impact on participation in entrepreneurship education programmes and company creation. Second, participation in these programmes positively influences individual entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial skills. The findings also include that the entrepreneurship education programme under study has strengthened its participants’ capacities and competencies, making these people more autonomous and facilitating their creation of new businesses.Originality/valueThis study sought to contribute to a fuller empirical understanding of how EETPs affect their participants’ individual entrepreneurship orientation and capacities (human resource development), thereby fostering company formation and regional development. Theoretical and practical implications are presented, with an emphasis on what needs to be done to improve EETPs.

With economic globalization and rapid development of science and technology, many colleges and universities pay more and more attention to the cultivation of students’ innovative thinking and creativity, and innovation and entrepreneurship education has also become an important part of the education system. Due to the current unevenness of teachers in innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, high training cost, and lack of strong atmosphere, this paper optimizes the innovation and entrepreneurship education and training system in colleges and universities through OpenStack cloud computing. This paper optimizes the cloud computing platform according to the OpenStack virtual machine and the multiobjective ant colony improvement algorithm and then designs the innovation and entrepreneurship education and training system. The multiobjective ant colony improvement algorithm uses the way ants find food to find the best information resource route from the traces left by the information trend in the cloud platform. In order to test the effectiveness of these methods, this paper uses the simulation method to test. The results show that, sometimes, the load utilization rate of the innovation and entrepreneurship education and training system in colleges and universities exceeds 80%, which is in line with the expected settings. Through the OpenStack cloud computing platform, it can provide a good innovation and entrepreneurship training environment for more users at low cost and low risk and promote the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

Taking the literature of CNKI as the data source and using the literature metrological visual analysis function of CNKI, this paper makes a quantitative analysis on the relevant literature in the research field of "College Students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training program" from 2011 to 2021 from the aspects of literature quantity and annual distribution, subject analysis, discipline distribution, source journals, and author distribution, Get the research status and development trend of innovation and entrepreneurship training projects. The results show that in recent ten years, Chinese scholars have paid more and more attention to the research of "College Students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training program," and the keywords with high frequency are "innovation and entrepreneurship," "innovation and entrepreneurship education," "practical teaching" and so on; Education and teaching forum, with 4705 papers published as relevant research papers, has the most significant number of papers, followed by education modernization and laboratory research and exploration, with 393 and 333 papers respectively. Huang Suoyi, Jian Guoming, Zhang Liucheng, and the other three authors wrote a lot, but the distribution of authors was scattered. Higher education, medical education, marginal medical disciplines, computer software, and computer applications ranked among the top three in the number of documents issued.

Based on extensive firsthand experience with entrepreneurship education and training programs for women and a thorough review of the literature on women's entrepreneurship and leadership as it relates to entrepreneurship education and training, the authors present a framework for designing and implementing effective programs for women. The framework provides the core factors that need to be considered to effectively achieve a program's goals: the elements of the program, human factors, the contextual environment, and funding. While the framework is applicable for entrepreneurship education and training programs in general, the authors demonstrate its specific utility by sharing firsthand examples from their work with women entrepreneurs from more than 20 developing countries throughout the past 10 years. This paper provides guidelines that can be used by scholars researching entrepreneurship, leadership, women in business, and developing economies, as well as by program directors offering entrepreneurship education and training programs.

The undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training program of China provides a good platform for colleges and universities to developing innovation and entrepreneurship education. This paper applies organizational management tool to design organization structure pattern, project organizational division of labor table and confirm working process of undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training program, based on organizational management of Heilongjiang Institute of Technology. The practice indicates the applying organizational management methods innovate undergraduate teaching management pattern. Innovation and entrepreneurship education of everyday teaching management safeguards the developing of undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training program.

In order to improve the performance of entrepreneurship and innovation education in colleges and universities, this study attempts to build an evaluation system and model of innovation and entrepreneurship in colleges and universities to provide a complete and practical tool for government education authorities and universities to evaluate the implementation of innovation and entrepreneurship education. In this research, decision tree and fuzzy mathematics are used as the basis of the model algorithm, and the algorithm is improved based on the analysis of traditional algorithms. Moreover, based on the improved decision tree algorithm, an evaluation index system for university innovation and entrepreneurship education is constructed. After determining the evaluation indicators of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, this study uses several universities as examples to analyze and define the definitions of various indicators. In addition, this study statistically analyzes the results of entrepreneurship and innovation education in colleges and universities through simulation. The research shows that the model proposed in this paper has a certain practical effect, and based on the simulation results, this study makes several suggestions.

Under the dual background of innovation-driven development strategies and regional economic transformation and upgrading, the high-quality development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in local applied universities (hereinafter referred to as "entrepreneurship and innovation education") has become a key hub linking the supply-side reform of higher education and the demand side of regional economic and social development. This article aims to go beyond the single utilitarian perspective of skills training or competition, and build a systematic and ecological theoretical framework for mass entrepreneurship and innovation education in local applied universities from the philosophical level of integrating instrumental rationality and value rationality. This framework takes "cultivating people with moral integrity and serving the region" as the core value, "multi-dimensional integration and capability advancement" as the practical path, and the collaborative symbiosis of "government, industry, academia, research and innovation" as the ecosystem support. On this basis, this article deeply analyzes the coupling interaction mechanism between the mass entrepreneurship and innovation education system and the regional economic system, and explains how the two achieve collaborative evolution and value co-creation through interdependence and mutual shaping from three dimensions: factor flow (talent, knowledge, capital), talent training collaboration, and resource integration and symbiosis. This study comprehensively uses literature analysis, theoretical deduction and system analysis methods to provide a systematic theoretical reference for deepening the reform of mass entrepreneurship education and solving the "two skins" dilemma between it and the regional economy, and to contribute academic thinking to promote the deep integration of the education chain, talent chain, industry chain and innovation chain.

In the Party's 20 National Congress reports, "innovation" appeared 55 times, covering politics, economy, culture, education and other aspects. The fifth part, "Implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the Country through science and Education and strengthening the talent support for modernization", mentions innovation for 21 times. It can be said that "innovation" has become the main melody and the strongest sound of today's times. College students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program is an important carrier to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. In this paper, taking Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages as an example, the investigation and analysis found that there are some problems in the implementation of college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, such as students' innovation and entrepreneurship awareness to be improved, project innovation to be enhanced, the professionalism of the tutor team to be improved, and the achievement evaluation system to be improved. In response to these problems, the author proposed corresponding suggestions and countermeasures. To constantly improve the "Big innovation" plan management system, improve the quality of the project.

In the context of Popular Entrepreneurship and Innovation, scientific and systemic implementation of innovation and entrepreneurship education is the focus of higher education reform at present. This paper analyzes the important significances of carrying out innovation and entrepreneurship education in higher education of traditional Chinese Medicine, introduces the specific practices and experi-ences of designing educational concept and constructing education system about innovation and entrepre-neurship education, following the objective laws of modern educational development and the growth pattern of Chinese medicine talents, in order to provide reference for further promoting innovation and entrepreneu-rship education reform. Key words: Entrepreneurship and innovation education; Higher education of traditional Chinese Medicine; Education system; Talent cultivation

This paper rests on a survey among students of Arab Open University (AOU) that covered 6,369 students from all branches (in eight countries) and across all four colleges. It endeavours to raise a case for introducing entrepreneurship education in AOU. The Survey results show a surprisingly high level of entrepreneurial intention among the students, and the overwhelming majority of them are demanding introduction of entrepreneurship education. The Paper uses results of the Survey to present how the students of AOU desire their entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship training programmes to be organised, and to identify the target groups of each of the two programmes. Based on these results and on selected literature review of the concepts of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship training, an outline of entrepreneurship curricula and of teaching and training methods are suggested. Both curricula and methods advanced could be of relevance beyond the specific case of AOU.

For many decades, the healthcare sector has been playing catchup with other industries in terms of innovation, primarily due to the low number of healthcare professionals with innovation and entrepreneurship skills in the workplace. The lack of innovation skills, particularly among pharmacists, may result from the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship training is not an integral part of most pharmacy core curricula. In fact, a limited number of pharmacy schools offer innovation and entrepreneurship courses either as part of a joint MBA/PharmD degree or as a certificate. These programs differ greatly from each other in their curricular content, although their overall goals are to teach future pharmacists the skills required to manage service delivery, oversee budgets, improve efficiency, control costs and continuously achieve quality improvement. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to assess commonalities and differences in curricular content between entrepreneurship and innovation training programs in the USA and, second, to present a set of must-haves for innovation and entrepreneurship curricular content for core curricula in pharmacy.

With China entering a new era of socialism, it has become a new mission and task for colleges and universities to cultivate more innovative and entrepreneurial talents who can meet the needs of national innovation driven development strategy. Innovation and entrepreneurship education is the trend of higher education reform and development in the new era. The development of corresponding education and teaching activities cannot be isolated from professional education. China's higher education is based on professional education and aims to cultivate comprehensive talents with certain professional level and skills. It has formed a relatively stable and standardized education system. Innovation and entrepreneurship education in domestic colleges and universities began at the end of the 20th century, mainly relying on the "innovation and entrepreneurship" curriculum to cultivate students' innovation and entrepreneurship consciousness and practical ability, so that students can adapt to the needs of social and technological development, and smoothly carry out innovation and entrepreneurship activities in related fields. However, China's innovation and entrepreneurship education just started, and the combination with professional education is not close enough, and there is still a certain distance from the requirements of innovation driven development strategy for talents. In the process of education, we need to clearly recognize the shortcomings of the current professional education, and what specific measures should be taken in the process of organic integration with entrepreneurship and innovation education and the construction of educational practice system to realize the effective cultivation of innovative compound talents, enhance the core competitiveness of professional technology, and promote the sustainable development of higher education.