On April 10, 2023, Assistant Professor. Bowen Dong and Yitian Lu of FOB were invited by School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University to give lectures on innovation and entrepreneurship courses and special training courses on ideological and political reform and teacher ability improvement.
Assistant Professor Bowen Dong gave a lecture on “The Opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial mindset”. Based on practical cases (i.e., Pinduoduo and Kodak), he explained the basic features of opportunity recognition, opportunity window, and opportunity evaluation and illustrated how to successfully launch a business with a scenario simulation game named "Island Selling Shoes", helping students to put the learned knowledge into practical use.
Assistant Professor Yitian Lu gave a lecture on “Innovative thinking and practice”. Guided by the value of innovation, he discussed the connotation and type of innovation, the difference and connection between technological innovation, service innovation and business model innovation, innovation and change in the era of mobile Internet, etc. Introduced in detail the training methods and training skills of innovative thinking, and through the cotton candy game, students can learn while doing and think while learning. In the end, Dr. Lu hoped that the trainees should not stick to their original aspirations but redefine the problem; instead of finding the most suitable direction for them, they would have many choices; instead of "making a decision and advancing firmly", but "seeing while walking, try at a low-cost mistake". The on-site classroom atmosphere is active, and the training content is substantial and compact, which has won unanimous praise from the trainees.
The wonderful lectures given by the two teachers that day greatly broadened the trainees' understanding of dual-creation education, further improved the students' dual-creation literacy, and laid a good foundation for the later secondary vocational dual-creation education.
Source: School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University