THE Innovation and Entrepreneurship College, also called Julong College, of Shenzhen Technology University was officially inaugurated Saturday, a source from the university said.

Professor Liu Qingxia, fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, has been appointed as dean of the college. Liu, who joined the university recently, is the university’s first member of a major academy. At the inaugural ceremony, Liu said Julong College will be a high-level, international innovation and entrepreneurship base for education, interdisciplinary research, industrial incubation and financial capital.

It will cultivate talent through interdisciplinary research, industrial incubation and financial investments. In the future, the college will extend cooperation between the university and enterprises, match innovation resources, enhance industrial integration and incubate innovative projects.

The college will form a brand-new innovation education system and establish a multilayered, deeply integrated and coordinated entrepreneurship education mode. It will promote interdisciplinary integration and enable students to consolidate their professional knowledge through entrepreneurship, improve their innovative and entrepreneurial capability through professional courses, deepen their understanding of market industrial capital and improve their capability of transforming their scientific achievements into industrial products.

Qian Yitai, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, suggested establishing a new system of curricula, innovating an evaluation system and expanding students’ horizons are three aspects that the university should stress when cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talent.

Ye Zhizhen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, thought that the cultivation of innovative talent should first focus on the capability of innovation knowledge that can be conducted through personalized, differentiated and diversified learning.

Secondly, Ye said the schools should cultivate students’ capability of developing new technologies and grasping key technologies by following closely industrial development. To cultivate students’ entrepreneurial capability, the college should stick to principles which are guided by market demands and enable students to grasp innovative knowledge, skills and entrepreneurial ideas. (Han Ximin)