A study on the mechanism affecting the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ability of medical students based on Constructivist Theory: mediating role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Willingness
The analysis revealed highly significant direct effects on IE Willingness from the Research Talent Training Models (β = 0.857), IE Incentive Mechanism (β = 0.731), innovation courses (β = 0.696), and IE recognition (β = 0.521). For mediation effects on IE Ability (via willingness), only IE recognition (β = 0.122) and incentive mechanisms (β = 0.064) showed significance, while research models (β = 0.053) and innovation courses (β = 0.062) were non-significant. These findings suggest that optimizing incentive mechanisms, refining innovation courses, and strengthening research talent models-the most impactful driver-can effectively foster medical students' innovation engagement.
Authors
- Yanlin Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2977-6449)
- Xu Song (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9811-9883)
- Yong Li
- Zhihao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2828-0118)
- Yu Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-3153)
- Hao Pan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-0107)
- Yujia Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4982-8768)
- Chenchen Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1222-4872)
- Jianjun Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7681-4241)
- Junjie Du (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-5450)
Institutions
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Institute of Biophysics (CN)
- Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (CN)
- Southeast University (CN)
- Nanjing Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Medicine
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1630168
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.35
Funders
- Government of Jiangsu Province
- Nanjing Medical University