From "Competition Arena" to "Marketplace":Research on the Transformation Dilemmas and Empowerment Mechanisms of College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competitions

Abstract

College students' innovation and entrepreneurship competitions have become an important carrier for universities in China to cultivate innovative talents and promote innovation and entrepreneurship education. However, a large number of competition achievements remain confined to the "competition arena" and fail to effectively enter the "market" to realize their economic and social values. This paper aims to systematically analyze the practical dilemmas in the core process of "competition-innovation transformation" and construct a multi-agent collaborative enabling mechanism.Firstly, the study sorts out the theoretical logic and practical significance of competition achievement transformation, and points out its importance for talent cultivation, education reform and innovation-driven development. Then, based on literature analysis and typical cases, this paper deeply reveals the key obstacles in the transformation process from four dimensions: achievement attributes, subject capabilities, support systems and market environment, and constructs a dilemma analysis framework table.The study holds that the current dilemmas are mainly manifested in the following aspects: the disconnection between the "competition-oriented" and "market-oriented" positioning of projects, the insufficient sustainable operation and commercialization capabilities of student teams, the university internal support system's tendency of "valuing competitions over incubation", and the weak connection between social capital and the industrial chain.To address these pain points, this paper proposes to construct a "four-in-one" enabling mechanism involving the government, universities, enterprises, financial and service institutions from four levels: top-level design, educational process, support platforms and ecosystem. Specifically, it includes: optimizing policy incentives and evaluation systems to guide the orientation of "taking transformation as the criterion"; deepening the integration of professional education and innovation and entrepreneurship education to improve students' market cognition and practical business capabilities; improving the university internal full-chain support platform covering "competition-incubation-acceleration"; building an open ecosystem featuring deep industry-university-research-application collaboration and accurate capital docking.This study provides a systematic analysis framework and practical path for solving the problem of transforming college students' innovation and entrepreneurship competition achievements, and has reference value for improving the effectiveness of university innovation and entrepreneurship education and serving the national innovation-driven development strategy.