Monday 16th November was the start of a two- day event, the International Forum on Entrepreneurship Education held in China Europe International Business School , Shanghai.

Co-hosted by Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates of Nankai University; Research Center of Entrepreneurial Management of Nankai University and National Entrepreneurship Research Center of Tsinghua University, the forum was designed to stimulate communication and collaboration between scholars, educators, entrepreneurs, government officials and explore best ways to advance innovative entrepreneurship practices on campus.

Entrepreneurship education, with their own characteristics, can take effects only by combining entrepreneurship theory and practices with real-world exposure and experience. Meanwhile, the success of entrepreneurship education rests on the involvement of enterprisers, investors, and incubation centers, etc.

Recent years the China government has attached great importance to entrepreneurship education. The Ministry of Education launched nine pilot colleges for entrepreneurial education in 2002, and implemented a series of programs to advance college students to undertake innovative entrepreneurship, for instance, the innovative experimental program for college students, the establishment of innovative pilot zone to cultivate talents, the launch of innovative entrepreneurship contests for graduates, the encouragement of college students’ innovative spirit, and the cultivation of college students’ entrepreneurial ability.

Meanwhile, the EFG Advisory Committee is formally established at the meeting and Ms. Yan Junqi presents certificates to the members. The committee members include William Baumol, the most influential economists in the world and Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and academic director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Stern School of Business, New York University and other entrepreneurship research and education advocators in China.

Distinguished guests attending the forum include:

Paul Reynolds, Visiting Professor at George Mason University, Founding Principal Investigator of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

Paul is an internationally recognized scholar of entrepreneurship study. Distinguished His most outstanding achievement is that he initiated the founding of the most influential international cooperative program in the world – the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), whose Chinese partner is Qinghua University’s China Entrepreneurship Research Center. Meanwhile, he also launched the renowned research program in the social science – Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), whose Chinese partner is Nankai University’s Research Center of Entrepreneurial Management.

In view of the outstanding contribution he has made on entrepreneurial research, Professor Reynolds has been rewarded with dozens of international awards, including the highest honor in the entrepreneurial research field – 2004 International Entrepreneurship & Small and Medium Enterprise Research Award.

Zhang Yuli, Director of the Research Center of Entrepreneurial Management of Nankai University and Deputy Dean of Graduate School of Nankai University

Zhang is a pioneer scholar in the study of entrepreneurship research who has gained rich research findings in the field. He is the leader of the first key subject in the entrepreneurial field of National Natural Science Foundation, and the principal teacher of Nankai University’s EMBA and MBA who receives the State Council Special Allowance. His course, Entrepreneurial Management, is one of the only two national quality courses on entrepreneurial management. The magazine China Entrepreneur once dubbed him a “spiritual massagist”.

Zhao Shuming, Dean of School of Business at Nanjing University and renowned as “the No. 1 on human resource management in China”

Gregory Leman, Director of University Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Curtis Hankamer Chair in Entrepreneurship at Baylor University.

Lei Jiasu, Vice Chair of National Entrepreneurship Research Center of Tsinghua University

Niu Wenwen, the Founder of the Founder Magazine and the former editor-in-chief of China Entrepreneur Magazine

Kevin Ou, Vice Chair of CUHK Entrepreneurship Center,etc.

Ge Dingkun, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Study in China Europe International Business School