In 2019, with the challenges faced by globalization, the Fourth
Industrial Revolution driven by technology, and the new investment
opportunities driven by digital economy, China and the world are heading
for a new cycle of economic and social development, steering the
situation and empowering to challenge the game. On Nov. 30, the “Antai
Symphony” Summit Forum of SJTU and the launching ceremony of ACEM
Industry Community Class were grandly held in Xuhui Campus.To get more
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Business
economy is the best window to observe the changes of the times. Not
only it is the growth history of a particular company, but more
importantly, we can see the evolution of every different vertical
industry, and the reform of business education and business schools also
needs proactive exploration. The forum focused on the three major areas
of FinTech, innovation and entrepreneurship, and automotive ecology to
feel the true temperature of the Chinese economy.
Jiang Sixian,
Secretary of the Party Committee of SJTU, stated in his speech that the
main feature of a first-class university is its high-level experts,
scholars and scientific achievements, as well as its rich talent
reserves, while a first-class company has senior industry leaders and
business elites, being the subject of market, demand and investment.
Innovation-driven is essentially talent-driven, and technological
innovation and innovation of education model are closely related and
mutually promoted. Pioneering exploration oriented to industry
development practices has provided a good opportunity and platform for
the transformation and development of business schools in the new era,
and will also promote qualitative improvement and leap in various
industries.
On the day of the event, Jiang Sixian, Secretary of
the Party Committee of SJTU, and Sun Yu, Vice President of BOC, jointly
unveiled the “BOC-SJTU - BOC Intelligent Valley Training Base for
Industry and Education Integration”, which serves as an industrial
backup. Gu Feng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of SJTU, and
Rui Xiongwen, Vice President of Ant Financial, signed a strategic
cooperation framework agreement on behalf of the two parties, launching
in-depth cooperation on talent training and academic research. In
addition, ACEM signed a strategic cooperation agreement with BOC
Shanghai.
Xi Lifeng, member of the Standing Committee of the
Party Committee and Vice President of SJTU, stated in his speech on the
afternoon of the forum that business schools should build an
interdisciplinary, inter-organizational and cross-industry ecosystem,
strengthen the combination of theory and practice, strengthen the
feedback of industries to teaching and research, and promote the
industry-university integration.
Chen Fangruo, Dean of ACEM,
believed that business schools worldwide are facing the problem that
theory and practice cannot be effectively combined, and top business
schools in the world have been carrying out various reforms but have
rarely solved the fundamental problem. ACEM hopes to establish another
knowledge-creating vertical model based on the horizontal discipline
orientation: carrying out industry-oriented in-depth research, and then
creating a new knowledge-creating atmosphere and healthy ecology with
“crisscrossed development and unity of knowledge and action”.
As
the host of the event, Yang Jie, Secretary of the Party Committee of
ACEM, suggested that business schools need to get out of the ivory tower
and cooperate and interact more with industries. While redefining
academics, they must serve industry practices and align with the
national strategy of industry upgrade. Studying future issues and
developing future leaders with future-oriented dreams is an important
starting point for ACEM to explore industry research and have deeper
cooperation with industries.
As the guest moderator of the
forum, Liu Shaoxuan, Associate Dean of ACEM, emphasized that the talent
training in the future must be featured by a compound training model
that develops both management-oriented technology talents and
technology-oriented management talents. The launch of ACEM Industry
Community Class will provide ACEM and its alumni with a path for deep
evolution of the supply and demand pattern in a cross-school,
cross-program, cross-disciplinary and cross-industry-university-research
way, and through the same frequency dialogue between the industry and
alumni, so as to share and build a win-win ecology and stage. It marks
that ACEM’s concept of industry research is being incorporated into the
curriculum system.
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