Bringing together faculty technologies with student entrepreneurship development
INTRODUCTION
Jointly organized by the HKUST Entrepreneurship Center (EC), the Lo Kwee Seong Technopreneurship (Tech-Ship) Fund aims at bringing together faculty technologies with student entrepreneurship development by providing a platform that introduces faculty research outcomes, facilitates passionate students to form partnerships with faculty members for technopreneurship development – an emerging breed of entrepreneurship with the use of technology as an integral element in disruptive innovations or solutions for any industry.
WHO should take part?
Faculty Members of any discipline who wish to:
- commercialize their research outputs developed or being developed and
- invite passionate, capable and entrepreneurial students to form startup teams
Students - undergraduates/ postgraduates (taught/ research) of any discipline who wish to:
- explore business and entrepreneurial possibilities to merge faculty research with new or existing entrepreneurial development and
- partner with faculty/ research teams for commercializing faculty's research outputs
HOW does it work?
FACULTY MEMBERS
introduce research output/ project to students to inspire potential entrepreneurship development via a 15- minute presentation
STUDENTS
can brainstorm entrepreneurship potentials of faculty's research output/ project and technopreneurship collaboration possibilities
STUDENTS
approach faculty members to discuss their entrepreneurial ideas
FACULTY MEMBERS
identify and form partnerships with passionate students to kick-start technopreneurship development
