Information Technology InnoICT Competition Review 2013 Competition
2013 Competition
“InnoICT Business Plan Competition 2013” Successfully Completed
Organized by Macau New Technologies Incubator Centre (Manetic) and Tertiary Education Services Office, “InnoICT Business Plan Competition 2013” has successfully completed. The award ceremony was held at Macau Tower on 19th August 2013 and final result was announced as well.
This year registration was opened from 1st of March to 21st June 2013. All the submitted proposals were collected on 1st August and there was the final on 19th August when the 10 finalists introduced to judges their business plan and proof of concept. There were totally 37 teams to take part in this year’s competition and 27 teams from Macau institutes, including University of Macau (UM), Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM), Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) and Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), and 10 teams from neighboring districts and universities overseas, including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Canada, Netherland and USA, etc. Altogether 89 students were involved (83 Macau residents, 6 Mainlanders).
Workshop
In order to let the participants have good preparation for the competition, “InnoICT Business Plan Competition 2013”Workshop was held on 6th July at conference room of Macao Science Center and several speakers were invited to share their business experience and reminded the participants what they have to pay attention to.
The speakers are :
• Associate Professor of Marketing of Faculty of Business Administration from University of Macau, Mr. Matthew Liu;
• Technical Director of Central Technology Limited, Mr. Franky Ip;
• The Champion of 2010 competition, Sales Director of SoftFabrique Limited, Mr. Ken Wong;
• The Champion of 2012 competition, ICT Manager of UbiCloud E-Commerce & Business Consulting Limited, Mr. Brandon Leong.
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Award Ceremony
“InnoICT Business Plan Competition 2013” came to a successful conclusion. The award ceremony was held at Macau Tower on 19th August 2013 and awarded numerous prizes to the winners respectively. The first competition began in 2010, aiming at fostering more innovative enterprise establishments, and promotes the ICT development in Macao. In line with encouraging innovation, Manetic will also provide the opportunity for winner teams to convert their business plans to reality, as well as a range of prizes and software and hardware support services.
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2013 InnoICT Competition Review
The result of “InnoICT Business Plan Competition 2013”:
| Champion | First Runner up | Second Runner up | |
| Team/School | TPA (National Taiwan University) | MIE (University of Macau) | iMacau (University of Macau) |
| Members | KUOK KA WAI HOI SIO FONG LEONG CHEOK PAN |
WONG CHI KIN CHANG WENG LONG LEONG MAN HOU LEI WAI MENG LEI IAI CHON |
IEONG CHAN LONG FUNG HIO MIU |
| Project | An innovative event information platform that collects, organizes and delivers event information of local association and organization to users, so that the local residents can simply search the relevant information online. | A comprehensive tourism e-kit, making use of positioning and navigation technologies, so as to prompt the users to search the place they want to visit | Build a mobile smart city based on NFC technology to reduce the merchant’s costs and promote the advance application and further development of short-range wireless communication techniques at Macao, as well as promote Macao as an E-tourism consumption city. |
| Awards | Certificate, Cash Prize: MOP $30,000, Business start-up fund: MOP $80,000, 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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We would like to show our appreciations and gratitude to the following organizations for their commitment:
