School:Zhejiang University
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Overview
Zhejiang University (ZJU, also known as Che Kiang University; simplified Chinese: 浙江大学; traditional Chinese: 浙江大學; pinyin: Zhèjiāng Dàxué; Wade–Giles: Che-chiang-ta-hsüeh), sometimes referred to as Zheda, is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest, most selective and most prestigious institutions of higher education. It is a member of the C9 League, the Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.
The university campus is located in the city of Hangzhou, approximately 112 miles (180 km) southwest of Shanghai. There are seven campus in Zhejiang University：Zijingang Campus, Yuquan campus, Zhijiang campus, Huajiachi campus, Zhoushan campus, Haining campus and Xixi campus. Zhejiang University Library's collection contains about 7 million volumes, making it one of China's largest academic libraries.
Zhejiang University is a comprehensive university, covering more than 100 majors such as science, industry, agriculture and medicine. It cultivates a large number of talents for the society every year, with the goal of training a new generation of young people who are realistic and innovative for the world.
Student Entrepreneurship
Zhejiang University offers various kinds of projects to improve the Student Entrepreneurship. For example, “Entrepreneurship in China & OBOR” International Summer School is a unique three-week program which offers participants an opportunity to understand the entrepreneurial China in one of China's most dynamic growth areas.
Combined fieldwork with courses, the program encourages participants to observe and learn from the real business settings via company visits, networking events with entrepreneurs and tours searching for business opportunities. By the end of the program, they will be required to create their own China business initiative and present it to the final judges as part of their assessment.
The curriculum is well designed covering different facets of "entrepreneurship" including the cultural issue, the economic issue, the marketing issue as well as specific areas such as intellectual property and big data. Cultural immersion sessions are offered throughout the program, participants will be able to experience how to speak, write, and dress like a Chinese.
Since 2017, students of all majors in Zhejiang University are required to take innovation and entrepreneurship courses and get a certain number of credits in this category. Meanwhile, new courses such as “Entrepreneurship Fundamentals”, which aims to promote students’ awareness of entrepreneurship and feed them with entrepreneurial principals, are offered.
The “Entrepreneurship fundamentals” course is posted on the university’s MOOC platform (c.zju.edu.cn), where students are encouraged to join discussions and study anytime at their convenience.
In October 2019, the Fifth China "Internet plus" student innovation and entrepreneurship competition was held at Zhejiang University. The competition attracted 4 million 570 thousand college students and 1 million 90 thousand teams from 124 countries and regions and 4093 institutions. Teams of Zhejiang University performed well in the competition and won the second and third place finally. In addition, about 238000 innovation and entrepreneurship projects have been carried out in the old revolutionary base areas, poverty-stricken areas and urban and rural communities. 748000 households and 24204 enterprises have been connected, and more than 16800 cooperation agreements have been signed. It can be seen that Zhejiang university plays an important role in promoting the development of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy School of Management at Zhejiang University is among the first higher education institutions in China which started research and educational activities on innovation, entrepreneurship and strategy. The School is the founding organization of the World Entrepreneurship Forum and collaborated with Babson College in the US and Emlyon Business School in the France to launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program in 2009, which is the world's first entrepreneurship master program across the three continents. The School organized annually the Forum of Leading Scholars on Strategic Management which has become one of the most influential academic conferences in the field in China.
According to statistics, there are more than 130 alumni of Zhejiang University serving as the principals or founders of listed companies, including 92 main board listed companies and 16 overseas listed companies.
In 2005, 2009 and 2014, Zhejiang University applied for the practical teaching reform project of "vigorously promoting SRTP and discipline competition, cultivating students' practical and innovative ability", "building" four platforms "for research-based learning, cultivating students' practical and innovative ability" and "Zhejiang 20 years' exploration and practice of discipline competition stimulating students' vitality". It has won the second prize of national teaching achievement three times.
In July 2016, Zhejiang University was awarded the first batch of "national innovation and entrepreneurship typical experience universities" by the Ministry of education. In January 2017, Zhejiang University was recognized as "the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration universities" by the Ministry of education. In June 2017, Zhejiang University was selected as the second batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration bases.
University Technology Transfer Function
University - Industry Collaboration
Zhejiang University has close Collaboration with many industrial companies, including a various kinds of companies in China as well as in U.S. One of the most famous instance is Large Scale Information System Research Center, Zhejiang University.
Since the late 90s of last century, the Center for Information Systems Research Center under the leadership of Professor He Zhijun, has been exploring how to cooperate with industry, especially with foreign high-level companies. Since 2001, the research center and the United States State Street Bank to establish cooperative relations, carry out large-scale financial information system research and development work. The company has a large legacy system, the company's major stock trading business, but due to outdated structure, missing documents, system failures frequently, many foreign companies have no good policy, research center team after six months of efforts to repair the system Problem and rebuild the system platform, successfully "save" the system. Based on this project we have proposed a number of solutions to large-scale legacy system reengineering-related problems, access to a high degree of recognition partners, but also for the research center to win credibility. "CIO Magazine" has reported "an IT wonderful open in China", introduced the research center and the United States State Street Bank of cooperation process, and to achieve cooperation in the stock trading system to evaluate "the system put into operation, the transaction The amount of the past four times, and the whole process to spend less than 6 months time. And then include: CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, Reuters, CNN, Forbes, "21st Century Business Herald", "Economic Observer", "China Electronics News", "China Computer". Dozens of domestic and international mainstream media attention and positive coverage, the positive evaluation of the mainstream media, logo research center in large-scale financial information services, the establishment of the leading position in the field. Since then, the research center began with the domestic and international industry to carry out more extensive cooperation, cooperation and achievements in the domestic scale has a unique advantage.
Since its establishment in 2001, the Research Center has developed over 100 financial systems for more than 20 well-known domestic and foreign financial enterprises, covering almost all financial business and services such as stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, futures, funds, etc., and accumulated a lot of development. Skills, and project management experience to fully understand all phases of the financial software lifecycle, including requirements, design, coding, testing, UAT, and product support.
In addition to the US State Street Banking Corporation, the research center also includes well-known international financial institutions such as Cisco Systems, Princeton Financial Systems and DST Systems, as well as the China Foreign Exchange Trade Center, the People's Bank of China, the Agricultural Bank of China, etc. , In the financial business has a great advantage. The R & D team of the Research Center has been engaged in R & D of related financial systems for nearly 10 years, and has visited hundreds of financial institutions at home and abroad.
In 2018, in order to build an interdisciplinary and school enterprise high-end dialogue platform for the industry frontier, and boost the cooperation between Zhejiang University's "16 + X" science and technology alliance and the industry, Zhejiang University held a series of high-end dialogue activities on the industry frontier of "Zhihui Zijin" jointly with leading enterprises in the industry. In the first phase, Zhejiang University held a high-end dialogue on smart home industry with Putian Hangzhou Hongyan Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. on July 10, inviting interdisciplinary experts of Zhejiang University, enterprises in the industry, National Science and Technology Park of Zhejiang University and Zijin small town enterprises to surround key cutting-edge technologies in the smart home industry and discuss the latest development of smart home industry together. Exhibition trends.
Regional and Local Economic Development
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2018 Landscape Canvas: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/123WD35jg_d-bLjDoteiJA6YdM8GhCx3xbNF0VTXLF6U/edit#gid=0
2017 Landscape Canvas: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/123WD35jg_d-bLjDoteiJA6YdM8GhCx3xbNF0VTXLF6U/edit?usp=sharing
2016 Landscape Canvas: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1L5FF2iGAOp_6GCMAW-NMVKEaDfWYGShA"
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