STUST received a full subsidy from the Ministry of Education to implement the University and College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Rooting Plan in 2018 and 2019. It was the only university of science and technology that has received both types of subsidies for two consecutive years. In order to continue to deepen entrepreneurship education, the Ministry of Education relaunched the two-year College and College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Program in 2020 and expanded the scale of the program. In addition to continuing to strengthen the original rooting program to promote projects, it also expanded the innovation and entrepreneurship. Seed teachers have been cultivated to improve the ecological environment of campus entrepreneurship. STUST has made another great achievement, with the highest subsidy amount of NT$2.2 million approved by the Ministry of Education.

[The 3rd STUST Innovation Combat Camp invited President Deng-Maw Lu (second row, eighth from right) to take a group photo with the school supervisor and all the students at the opening ceremony.]

The 3rd STUST Innovation Combat Camp for the 109th Academic Year was conducted in the Comprehensive Cultivation Space of Entrepreneurship Education in Building H2 at STUST from January 18th to January 27th. After rigorous qualification screening, a total of 31 students from 5 teams were selected. The teams were composed of the four major colleges of STUST. Most of the members adopted cross-departmental and interdisciplinary cooperation. Each team’s innovative ideas were extremely entrepreneurial. The opening ceremony of the combat camp invited President Lu to give an awards ceremony to the representatives of the team members. It symbolized the promotion and expectation of STUST for the three-innovation education, and also represented the resources and support of the university to help the entrepreneurial team, giving them the courage and spirit of innovation and making them not alone on their road to creative practice.

[Deng-Maw Lu, President of STUST, was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Third STUST Innovation Combat Camp.]

According to Rui-Shing Chang, R&D Director of the Research Development and Industry-University Cooperation Office, in addition to continuing to conduct high-intensity innovation and entrepreneurship courses at STUST this year, students can take the opportunity to train at start-up companies to actually experience the early days of entrepreneurship. The difficulties encountered include the entrepreneurial process from entrepreneurial conception proposal, maker implementation, business model briefing, commercial operation, company establishment to company closure. In addition, the battle camp planned to cultivate seed teachers for innovation and entrepreneurship. In addition to arranging seed teacher training courses, teachers and student teams were also arranged to participate in the camp courses. With the common class time, teachers could improve their own teaching Knowledge, explore possible problems in teaching, have a deep understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship training methods, course design and interaction, knowing how to link industry information and other knowledge and understanding the problems that students faced in their team operations. Teachers could give guidance to students, bridge the gaps between the team and they, and shape the entrepreneurial education atmosphere of the entire university.

Deng-Maw Lu, President of STUST, said that STUST upholds a pragmatic campus culture and builds a three-creative learning atmosphere—creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial. In order to guide students' creative ideas toward industrial application development, assist in the commercialization of innovative R&D results, and spread campus R&D results, STUST is especially grateful to the Ministry of Education for the subsidy of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Program for Colleges and Universities. Through the assistance of the program, STUST will further deepen the campus entrepreneurship practice and micro-learning program, the STUST Cup three-creation competition, entrepreneurial practice and other pre-cultivation seed cultivation. In order to strengthen the cultivation of the overall operating foundation of new ventures, moreover, STUST will upgrade the cultivation resources and guidance energy, implement creativity and innovation practice, and turn ideas into practical actions to create three-creation systemic rooted education.