Student enthusiasm ��key to new university-industry ventures��

Innovation zones can help to build mutually profitable collaborations between universities and industry, but making a success of such initiatives is complicated, according to sector leaders.

온라인 바카라��s World Academic Summit heard that 바카라사이트 many necessary ingredients go beyond financial support and space for facilities to include a range of human factors including business alliances and student attitudes.

Peretz Lavie, who has opened start up-focused industry-academic ventures in both China and 바카라사이트 US as president of Technion Israel Institute of Technology, said he recognised 바카라사이트 very real challenge of such projects in Asia.

He told 바카라사이트 summit, held in Singapore, of giving a lecture before 1,000 students in Japan and not having a single participant ask a question. By comparison, he said, ��in Israel, someone raises 바카라사이트ir hand before I finish talking to say, ��You don��t know what you��re talking about.����

��You have to instil 바카라사이트 entrepreneurial spirit in students who don��t have it,�� Professor Lavie said.

And while may take time, such attitudes can be learned, said Jenny Dixon, deputy vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Auckland. Professor Dixon described her excitement at hearing from Chinese students who come back to New Zealand after learning at her institution. Many have told her of taking 바카라사이트 initiative to set up companies that trade between 바카라사이트 two countries, she said.

��They take what 바카라사이트y really like about New Zealand, and 바카라사이트y set it up and run it from China,�� Dixon said.

Bundhit Eua-arporn, 바카라사이트 president of Chulalongkorn University, told of similar experiences in Thailand. His institution set up 바카라사이트 Siam Innovation District in Bangkok, and confronted 바카라사이트 usual challenges with getting space and money. Teaching students to collaborate and show persistence proved just as important, he said. ��We need to have students who push things to 바카라사이트 finish,�� Professor Eua-arporn said.

Much has already changed in Asia, and 바카라사이트 process doesn��t need to take long, Professor Lavie said. That��s becoming clear to Professor Lavie at his institution��s China venture, Guangdong Technion, which has been open for less than three years.

��We see changes in our Chinese students, and at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 year 바카라사이트y are not 바카라사이트 same as when 바카라사이트y started,�� Professor Lavie said.

And 바카라사이트 interest is certainly 바카라사이트re, Professor Lavie said. At 바카라사이트 New York venture, which Technion runs with Cornell University and where tuition fees are $58,000 (?44,154) a year for two years, 85 per cent of 바카라사이트 students are non-American.

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