Development of E-Commerce Curriculum with Educational Cooperation between Schools and SMEs

Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play important role in regional economic development. It is necessary for regional educational institutes that have economics and commerce, business and finance majors to establish curriculums that have close corporation with SMEs. This relationship can help college students, faculty, and sectors in SMEs to work on commonly interested subject, especially R&D. Based on a survey of 172 small or SMEs in Shanghai this paper describes cooperation attributes and functions of both institutes and SMEs. The paper also presents many cooperation sceneries in six forms of cooperation modes. The advantages and challenges of school-enterprise cooperation are depicted.