DKU InE is Hiring! Join Us Now!

01 Who are we?   DKU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (InE) serves as a platform and resource center to foster interdisciplinarity in practice, nurture entrepreneurship by fostering experiential learning environments, and transform ideas into actions with meaningful impacts. To achieve those goals, we are developing four strategic programs under the InE: DKU Innovation Incubator (Dii); University-Corporate Collaborative Innovation…

“Start-up 101”: what to expect when starting up your own company

In this ESS sharing session, we are honored to invite Mengdie Peng, the head of the Industry Promotion Department of Sichuan Biomedical Industrial Group, to give some valuable experience and advice to DKU students on the starting stage of self-employment. She plans to share the essential resources and capabilities required for entrepreneurship, risk points, and countermeasures, and also how to judge the growth potential of entrepreneurial teams and projects from investors’ perspectives based on actual cases.

Finalist of DKU 2022 Dachuang Project

The selection of new teams for the 2022 College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (from now on referred to as “Dachuang”) ended successfully in June. The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has not affected the DKUer’s enthusiasm to participate in Dachuang, where plenty of innovative projects have been raised. Despite the lockdown, many innovative projects have been…

2022 DKU InE Summer Program: Design Thinking and Social Entrepreneurship

Project Date: 7/25-7/31   For more specific details, please visit: https://dukekunshan.edu.cn/en/innovation   Online application:  https://gsi.dukekunshan.edu.cn/social-entrepreneurship/   Project consulting: Please send e-mail to: zhengyang.chen@dukekunshan.edu.cn TEL: (+86) 0512-3665-8718     Program Overview     Design thinking is the core methodology to approach social entrepreneurship, and it has been recognized as one of the most creative and effective tools to…

2022 U-Corp Lab Spring Project Showcase!

The U-Corp Lab (U-Corp) is a co-innovation platform that connects innovative organizations/companies with the vibrant DKUresearch and entrepreneurial community. The goal is to provide DKU students with the opportunity to master industry-proven innovation research methodologies through productive practice and co-creation projects with companies.  In Spring 2022, DKU InE worked with five companies on six student-enterprise collaboration projects, with the…