Zhen Ye, Yonghao Ding, Xinfang Zhang

Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology

Abstract：

Against the backdrop of typological development in higher vocational education and the deepening advancement of the mass entrepreneurship and innovation strategy, private vocational undergraduate institutions serve as the core training ground for cultivating high-level technical and skilled talent. The quality of their innovation and entrepreneurship education directly determines the market relevance of their graduates. As the core implementers of this education, instructors of innovation and entrepreneurship courses face critical bottlenecks in effectiveness due to their dual-qualified competencies, practical guidance capabilities, and level of course integration. Currently, instructors of innovation and entrepreneurship courses at private vocational undergraduate institutions commonly face challenges such as outdated pedagogical concepts, disconnect between professional expertise and innovation/entrepreneurship competencies, lack of practical experience, and inadequate training mechanisms. In response, this paper explores a tiered teacher development pathway —combining conceptual restructuring, competency enhancement, and mechanism refinement — tailored to the operational characteristics of private vocational undergraduate institutions. This approach integrates tiered training, industry-education collaboration, and dynamic evaluation, aiming to provide practical guidance for building an innovation and entrepreneurship faculty capable of meeting the demands of cultivating high-level technical and skilled talent.

Key Words：

innovation and entrepreneurship courses; instructors; dual-qualified faculty; development pathways