Bridging the Skills-Application Gap: A Review of New Business Course Reconstruction in Quanzhou’s Applied Universities
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With the digital and intelligent upgrading of Quanzhou's characteristic industries (footwear and apparel e-commerce, textile manufacturing), the demand for new business talents with "digital and intelligent skills + regional industrial cognition" has surged. However, local applied universities face a prominent "skills-application gap" in new business courses, characterized by mismatched course content with industrial scenarios and inadequate regional business data support in evaluation. This review systematically synthesizes existing literature (2021-2025) on regional industrial upgrading and curriculum reform, employing a systematic search of databases including CNKI, Web of Science, and Scopus with keywords such as "regional industrial upgrading", "applied universities", "new business curriculum", and "Quanzhou". The research clarifies the interactive logic between regional industrial upgrading and curriculum reconstruction, extracts core paths to address the skills-application gap from four dimensions (job capability alignment, scenario-technology integrated content development, university-enterprise collaboration, and region-adapted evaluation), and critically analyzes theoretical and practical progress. Key findings reveal three core challenges: superficial curriculum regionalization, unsustainable university-enterprise collaboration, and insufficient dynamic adaptation. The review concludes with targeted strategies including full-process regionalized design, interest-sharing collaboration, and dynamic iteration mechanisms. This study fills the gap in systematic reviews of "regional characteristic industries-new business curriculum" adaptation, providing a theoretical and practical framework for curriculum reform in Quanzhou and similar regions, while highlighting unresolved research questions for future exploration.
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