生物学杂志

Journal of Biology ›› 2025, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 122-.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-1736.2025.06.122

Previous Articles     Next Articles

Construction and practice of education of “tri-dimensional mentor and five combined facilitation” innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem for bioengineering major 

The bioengineering major of Hefei University has seized the opportunity of “double first-class” construction, assisted students to form scientific innovation teams under the collaborative guidance from academic mentors, science and innovations mentors, and enterprise mentors. The three mentor groups collaboratively established an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship, which was beneficial for teaching, learning, competition, research and innovation. Specifically, students from different grades and majors were formed “interdisciplinary and cross-grade” scientific innovation teams by the integrated traditional classroom instruction with a variety of other educational scenarios, and their internal motivation for learning through interest were activated, while igniting their external drive through academic competitions. By assigning enterprise projects to scientific innovation teams, the transformation of theoretical knowledge into projects, the conversion of innovation achievements into practical products, and the development of students into innovative talents were accelerated. Consequently, the students’ awareness and capabilities in innovation and entrepreneurship were raised and strengthened, and the commercialization of their innovative achievements was promoted. In sum, through the construction and practice of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, the bioengineering national first-class undergraduate major construction was continuously developed and aligned the cultivation of innovation and entrepreneurship talents with the needs from regional industries, and thereby comprehensively enhanced the ability to cultivate professionals for serving the high-quality development of the regional economy.   

  1. School of Biology, Food and Environment, Hefei University, Hefei 230601, China
  • Online:2025-12-18 Published:2025-12-19

PDF (PC)

1

Abstract: The bioengineering major of Hefei University has seized the opportunity of “double first-class” construction, assisted students to form scientific innovation teams under the collaborative guidance from academic mentors, science and innovations mentors, and enterprise mentors. The three mentor groups collaboratively established an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship, which was beneficial for teaching, learning, competition, research and innovation. Specifically, students from different grades and majors were formed “interdisciplinary and cross-grade” scientific innovation teams by the integrated traditional classroom instruction with a variety of other educational scenarios, and their internal motivation for learning through interest were activated, while igniting their external drive through academic competitions. By assigning enterprise projects to scientific innovation teams, the transformation of theoretical knowledge into projects, the conversion of innovation achievements into practical products, and the development of students into innovative talents were accelerated. Consequently, the students’ awareness and capabilities in innovation and entrepreneurship were raised and strengthened, and the commercialization of their innovative achievements was promoted. In sum, through the construction and practice of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, the bioengineering national first-class undergraduate major construction was continuously developed and aligned the cultivation of innovation and entrepreneurship talents with the needs from regional industries, and thereby comprehensively enhanced the ability to cultivate professionals for serving the high-quality development of the regional economy.

Key words: first-class major construction, tri-dimensional mentor, innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem, talent-training, college-enterprise cooperation

CLC Number: