Co-organized by Manetic and Tertiary Education Services Office, “InnoICT Business Plan Competition 2012” workshop was held at conference room of Galaxy Macau, at 3pm on 10th July 2012. Several speakers were invited to give a sharing, including
• Director of IS&T of Galaxy Entertainment Group, Mr. Ian Farnsworth,
• Associate Professor of Marketing of Faculty of Business Administration from University of Macau, Mr. Matthew Liu
• Technical Director of Central Technology, Mr. Franky Ip
• Country Manager of Extreme Networks, Mr. Wilson Ching
During the workshop, speakers shared their business experience with the students who have registered for the competition and hoped to let them have good preparation for it.

InnoICT Business Competition 2012

Debuted in 2011, the InnoICT Business Competition is an annual event organized by Macau New Technologies Incubator Centre (Manetic) and Tertiary Education Services Office to promote ICT innovation development in Macau. Winners will be given the opportunity to convert their business plans to reality through Manetic incubation services.

The InnoICT Business Competition 2012 came to a successful conclusion and the award ceremony was held at Manetic on 29 August 2012. The registration was opened during the end of April and the early of July. Then from July to August, the year’s competition wended its way through workshops, submission of business proposals to round off in the grand finale. There were 33 teams from Macau local universities and 13 teams from the universities outside Macau. Altogether 107 students were involved (100 Macau residents, 7 Mainlanders).

Results of Macau InnoICT Business Plan Competition 2012:

	Winner	First Runner up	Second Runner up
Team/School	UbiCloud (Queen Mary University of London)	ITU (University of Macau)	Edu-Play-Tor (University of Macau)
Members	LEONG SAN WENG	LEONG KA CHON LEONG CHONG MAN CHEONG CHI KIT LEONG HOU UN	FONG CHI IEONG AO IO FAI CHAN KA HENG
Project	UbiCloud will provide public service, NO matter whether merchant or customer, all of them will enjoy a convenient, simply and unique service.	Barrier free tongue controller, the system is to enable the handicapped person to enter the text and web surfing; the goal is enable disabilities can use computer as normal.	SEdu-play-tor is company which bring fun into the learning and electronic educational product developers, "Eduplaytor" word from Educator, the goal is to enable users to acquire knowledge in a Play, to get rid of the limitations of traditional learning, achieve the effect that combines learning and entertainment.
Awards	Certificate, Cash Prize: MOP $30,000, Business start-up fund: MOP $100,000, Manetic facilities and support services, Total Value: MOP $370,000.	Certificate, Cash Prize: MOP $18,000, Manetic facilities and support services – office space not included, Total Value: MOP $109,000	Certificate, Cash Prize: MOP $12,000, Manetic facilities and support services – office space not included, Total Value: MOP 102,500.
Business Start-up Support	Establishment of start-up business and marketing support. Software development tools and platforms for R&D. Training for both business and technical skills. Business opportunity & investors exposure.

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