Co-Innovate 2026 Spring Project Completion Summary

Co-Innovate is an industry-university collaboration platform launched by the DKU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. Partnering with community organizations, enterprises, NGOs, and non-profits, it runs structured, student-led projects that confront real social issues — focusing on applied research, technological innovation, artistic creativity, and social practice & community service — helping students turn theory into deliverable practice with real impact.

Closing Showcase — September 19, 2026

The Co-Innovate 2026 Spring Project Closing Showcase was successfully held on September 19, 2026. Fourteen partner guests and twenty-one student teams joined the project roadshows, voting, networking, and awards.

Program at a glance:

• Connected with 21 partner organizations;

• Engaged 100+ students;

• Delivered 28 long-term projects: 6 research, 5 technological-innovation, 7 art & creativity, 8 social-practice, and 2 student-led projects.

Research Projects — Rigorous Insight for Decision-Making

• Two Reactor School teams completed a literature review and first-hand interviews on China’s youth entrepreneurship ecosystem — visiting Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s innovation & entrepreneurship office; built a partner list with outreach plans;

• WhaleSights: Chinese mid/downstream photovoltaic companies entering the UAE — target-industry comparison, white paper framework, geopolitics special study;

• Impact Hub Shanghai: Budweiser China sustainability strategy — five research lines from industry reports to biomass-based cleaning and high-value reuse of waste yeast;

• PEER: county-level communities and rural revitalization — Zheng’an County (Guizhou) field site; participatory action research and oral history.

Technological Innovation — Making Ideas Really Run

• FSHD: all-in-one mobile platform prototype for rare-disease patients (v1.0 → v2.3.1) — mobile app, API, embedded OCR lab-report parsing, PostgreSQL, knowledge-base AI Q&A;

• Tinglin Health: “vaccine assessment system” prototype at Kunshan’s Tinglin Community Health Service Center — personalized decision support;

• memU: keyword/BM25 hybrid retrieval, memory-management interface, privacy controls for an open-source memory assistant;

• Vida City Shanghai: engineering & design education for 6–7-year-olds — cardboard to 3D modeling to printing their own models.

Art & Creativity — Making Culture Visible

• 6Arts-Archive: Chinese-English bilingual digital guide for the Six Arts Museum (pastry molds, wood carvings, palace lanterns, traditional beds); five on-site visits, three professional photo collection trips;

• 6Arts-Exhibition: immersive themed exhibition co-curated with the museum; community workshops;

• Buy42: “Graduation Archive · Object Swap” charity project at Shanghai charity shops;

• Watson Institute: deep-dive podcast — three guests, 2+ hours of formal interviews;

• DIIS (two teams): systematic waste-station design framework; smart kitchen-waste bin prototype with negative-pressure deodorizing;

• Tea Market: tea experiences across Kunshan markets and campus — “immersive experience + FOMO marketing”.

Social Practice — Writing the Classroom into Community and City

• S-tron China: “TechTrek + Founder Circle” — students into Shanghai advanced-manufacturing and AI companies; founder face-to-face exchanges;

• Taskforce: Oi Suzhou upgraded into Oi DKU — digital community platform for the DKU campus;

• JLL: Tengchong (Yunnan) cultural-creative products from local culture and children’s paintings; local-coffee packaging into production;

• PEER & DKU: book-donation fundraising, library exhibition, pen-pals with county high-schoolers; “Public Health” course completed;

• Community teams (university district, Weicheng, Shaocun): cookie workshops, board games, 90-minute science classes, intergenerational co-learning, inclusive education, idle-space renovation, reading corners, official-account platforms.

Student-Led Projects — Letting Passion Grow on Its Own

• Jingdezhen International Tourism Destination Brand Incubation: major site adjustment with official endorsement; policy research report, international benchmarking, questionnaire design;

• Jiangsu County Inclusive-Finance Credit-Risk Prediction & Simulation System: county indicator system (south/central/north Jiangsu), top-journal-style quantitative visualizations, field research at county financial institutions.

What’s Next

Co-Innovate Fall 2026 applications will open soon — stay tuned to emails and the official account. We look forward to your registration!

About Us

The Duke Kunshan University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (DKU InE) is a comprehensive teaching-practice platform and resource center, adhering to a problem-oriented, project-based learning philosophy and helping students turn innovative ideas into meaningful, impactful action.