Disciplinary Competitions Promote College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of International Economics and Trade
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Against the backdrop of the "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" era, disciplinary competitions, as important carriers of practical teaching in colleges, hold unique value in cultivating college students' innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities. Taking the international economics and trade major as an example, this paper aims to achieve two objectives: first, to identify key issues in the development of disciplinary competitions for the international economics and trade major, such as the construction of competition systems, school-enterprise collaboration mechanisms, and achievement transformation paths; second, to explore practical strategies for implementing disciplinary competitions to promote students' innovation and entrepreneurship. This study adopts literature analysis, questionnaire surveys, and case analysis methods. Specifically, a questionnaire survey was conducted among students majoring in international economics and trade from 30 national colleges, combined with typical case analyses of disciplinary competitions in the international economics and trade major, was used to systematically analyze the importance of disciplinary competitions in integrating professional knowledge, enhancing practical abilities, and cultivating innovative thinking. It also deeply explores the specific impacts of competitions on stimulating students' entrepreneurial awareness, shaping entrepreneurial skills, and connecting entrepreneurial resources. Based on the findings, this paper proposes enlightenment on promoting innovation and entrepreneurship through disciplinary competitions from three dimensions: innovation of educational concepts, optimization of curriculum systems, and improvement of policy guarantees, providing theoretical and practical references for colleges to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.
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