From campus to career: Mechanisms through which AI empowerment and gamified industry-education collaboration drive individual innovation capability in the context of industrial digitalization
Shangqun Wu
Sehan University/Yangzhou Polytechnic University
Fuxiang Wei
Sehan University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/bam.v8i1.13626
Keywords: AI empowerment; gamified industry-education collaboration; individual innovation capability; creative self-efficacy; industrial digitalization
Abstract
Industrial digitalization has restructured labor market demands, placing individual innovation capability at the center of human capital strategy in vocational education. Drawing on creative self-efficacy theory and self-determination theory, this study proposes a framework in which AI empowerment drives innovation capability through cognitive liberation, efficacy construction, and knowledge contextualization, while gamified industry-education collaboration (GIEC) amplifies these effects by fulfilling students' basic psychological needs.Furthermore, this study uses the "613" industrial system of Yangzhou City, China as an illustrative policy context to demonstrate the institutional activation effect of regional industrial strategies on these mechanisms. It also proposes three actionable practice models, offering practical guidance for vocational education administrators, policymakers, and corporate partners.
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