On April 24th at 3:00 pm, the Business School organized a seminar on innovation and entrepreneurship themed Explore the Mystery of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, lead the thinking forward. The seminar was held in Room 107 of the Fourth Teaching Building, and Prof. Wu Manlin was the keynote speaker. The seminar aimed to enhance students’ innovative and entrepreneurial mindset, and helped them set clear career goals.
Prof. Wu Manlin delivered the seminar
Prof. Wu Manlin shared her own experience by analyzing past innovation and entrepreneurship environments and the changing situation of the times. She discussed the significance of innovative and entrepreneurial mindset training, how to recognize innovation and entrepreneurship, and how to cultivate essential traits. She mentioned that we live in the era of Industry 4.0, where artificial intelligence might gradually replace many traditional positions. This would bring more challenges and also create more opportunities than ever before. To inspire an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset, build the mental agility needed to navigate uncertainty, train essential capabilities such as lifelong learning, sustainable thinking, teamwork skills, and identify and seize opportunities amidst change and crisis… these abilities and skills are some of the most important growth paths for the youth and these would help students shape and position themselves in the new era.
During the seminar, two students from the 5th Entrepreneurship Class were also invited to share their experiences and interact with the students.
The Interaction Session
The Interaction Session
The Seminar
The seminar ended with the warm applause of students, who expressed that they had benefited a lot. “This seminar has inspired me a lot, it helps me realize that innovative and entrepreneurial thinking is so important for the future development and career planning of individuals. Creativity is becoming more and more precious; the theory must be combined with the practice to lay a solid foundation for the future career development Zhang, a student enrolled in 2022 majoring in Business Administration, said.
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With 38 years of teaching experience, in USST, Prof. Wu Manlin served as deputy director of the Department of Business Administration and the Department of Public Administration; director of the Institute of Business Administration; leader of the Business Administration Major and the Business Administration Major (Entrepreneurship Education), and the latter is an Entrepreneurship Education Pilot Program within higher education institutions supported by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. She was also an expert on the Expert Committee of College Student Entrepreneurship Training, which is affiliated to the Education Management Information Center of the PRC Ministry of Education; an evaluation expert of the Technology Innovation Fund programs of the PRC Ministry of Science and Technology as well as the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality from 2006 to 2016.
Translated by Nie Rui
Reviewed by Liu Weiwei
