From July 1 to 31, 2020, the 5th Zhejiang University International Workshop for Graduate Students & Online Summer Camp on DeepTech Ventures was successfully held. The summer camp attracted the active participation of 50 graduate engineering students from the Polytechnic Institute and was a wonderful success enjoyed by every participant.

The entire summer camp was taught in English, covering diverse topics and rich content on Deep Tech Innovative Ventures. The summer camp had Professors and entrepreneurship tutors from École Polytechnique (France), Agoranov (France), KAIST (Korea) and the Sino-French Acceleration Center on Innovation. The teaching focused on the cultivation of Design thinking, knowledge and practical ability, and undertook entrepreneurship project work on real cases, through a variety of teaching methods. The participants experienced the interaction of different types of graduate engineering students, the integration of different engineering fields, and the rich cross-cultural interaction between teachers and students with diverse cultural backgrounds.

The participants enjoyed a combination of theory and practice. Firstly, the participants gained relevant knowledge of business management, marketing, financial management and economics, that provided a theoretical basis for the improvement of subsequent entrepreneurial projects.

Secondly, case studies through Harvard business cases, using both qualitative and quantitative analyses were carried out on products, that looked at marketing methods, channels, value analysis and analysis of company's decision-making problems at a strategic level.

Thirdly, to gain project practice experience, the graduate students formed 10 groups, and through brainstorming the groups came up with their own entrepreneurial projects. These projects were then developed, including product promotion, market research, competing goods analysis, economic analysis, using business English, while assisted by entrepreneurship mentors who coached the teams using their own entrepreneurial experience to make prototype projects have a genuine feeling of authenticity.

Most importantly, the camp paid significant attention to guide students to view and analyze problems from the perspective of entrepreneurs, learn the basic elements of entrepreneurship, to understand the market and competition, as well as basic economic knowledge, and transform the graduate students from "engineering thinking" to "entrepreneur thinking".

Finally, during the final presentation, each team performed their respective duties, having optimized an entrepreneurial idea into a promising blueprint, then carried out productization attempts to further transform the project into reality.

This Online Summer Camp was support by the Graduate School of Zhejiang University, which has enhanced the graduate students' ability of cross-cultural communication, the ability of team work and the spirit of innovation& entrepreneurship. The students have gained the friendship through team cooperation, and realized the significance of efficient teamwork and good executive ability is critical for successful entrepreneurs.

Under the situation of epidemic, the Polytechnic Institute has made full use of network technology to actively organize various online programs, and successfully created a new mode of international cooperation and exchange.

The Institute will further strengthen the construction of high-level innovation& entrepreneurship faculty teams, build a characteristic international innovation & entrepreneurship education brand, and promote the incubation and implementation of excellent entrepreneurship projects and start-ups of its graduate students.