2021 College Student Innovative and Entrepreneurship Training Program is in full swing at Kunshan Duke University. The Ministry of Education has started the College Student Innovative and Entrepreneurship Training Program (aka “Da Chuang“) since 2015, encouraging students to participate earlier in scientific research, technology development and entrepreneurship simulation, entrepreneurship practice, and other innovative entrepreneurship activities. The program aims to strengthen students’ capacities of innovation and entrepreneurship and enhance the spirit of innovation, creative thinking, and entrepreneurial awareness.
What can I learn?
- Opportunities to conduct scientific research, learning and practice
- Project funding and resource support
- Recommended for national training programs and competitions for innovation & entrepreneurship
- National/provincial-level project accreditation from MOE/JED
- Priority admission to the DKU Innovation Incubator
Project Selection
Innovation Training Project (ITP): The innovative training program allows student teams or individuals to complete the innovative research project design themselves, prepare of research condition and project implementation, writing research reports and academic communication, etc., emphasizing the practical training and exercise of students from the basics of scientific research and cultivating students’ innovation under the guidance of tutors.
Entrepreneurship Training Project (ETP): Under the guidance of a mentor, the student team will divide the roles of team members, write a business plan, conduct feasibility study, simulate business operation, participate in business practice, write the entrepreneurial report, etc.
Entrepreneurship Practice Project (EPP): Under the joint guidance of a school mentor and an enterprise mentor, the student team can use the results of a pre-ITP (or innovative experiment) to propose an innovative product or service with market prospects as a basis for entrepreneurial practice activities.
Judging Panel
Meet the judging panel this year!
Kai Huang
Associate professor of Physics, Chair of the Division of Natural Science, DKU
Liqi Ren
Lecturer in innovation and design, Associate director for innovation and entrepreneurship, DKU
Xiawa Wang
Assistant professor of material science, DKU
Zhaojin Zeng
Assistant professor of history, DKU
Xiaochen Zhang
Assistant professor of applied economics, DKU
2021 Pojects
This year, after our deliberation and evaluation, 8 teams stood out and were eventually selected for the DKU 2021 Da Chuang Program. Let’s check them out!
Congratulations to all the teams!
We are glad to have you all:)
