Vice-Chancellor’s Cup of Student Entrepreneurship 2011-12

The Center for Entrepreneurship (CfE) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) invites all students attending CUHK to enter their start-up business plans in the Vice-Chancellor’s Cup of Student Entrepreneurship (VCCE).  Each entry shall be a team of from one to five CUHK students and shall be supervised by a CUHK faculty member. 

The semi-finals will take place on Friday February 3rd and the finals on Saturday February 4th, 2012.   Semi-finalist and finalist teams will present their plans to panels of judges who will select as winners the teams that plan to create the most value subject to feasibility.  The judging panels will be made up of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and investors.  Students and faculty of CUHK are welcome to attend the presentations.  Presenters will meet privately with judging panels for feedback sessions. 

Winners of VCCE, subject to funding availability, will represent CUHK in international competitions including The Investment Labs Venture Competition (formally called Moot Corp) at the University Texas. Participants, subject to eligibility, are encouraged to enter local competitions including the Hong Kong Young Entrepreneurs Challenge, the HSBC Young Entrepreneur Awards, the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge and the KPMG Business Administration Paper and international open-entry business plan competitions such as the University of San Francisco International Business Plan Competition, the University of Oregon New Venture Championships, the Indian School of Business Social Venture Challenge, etc.

Prizes

First prize is HK$8,000; second prize is HK$5,000 and third prize is HK$2,000.

The Sow Asia Foundation Social Venture Award is $8,000.  This prize may be awarded jointly to the first, second or third prize winning team or separately to another team.

News Release

Schedule of Events

ReWardrobe

LI Ming Chin, POON Ka Ki, LAU Yan Ling Veronica, NG Wai Ying Zoe, NG Lam Kwan
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Second Runner up – HK$2,000
 

E-Canteen Platform

ZHAO Yu, ZHANG Yan
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First Runner up – HK$5,000
 

ReWardrobe

LI Ming Chin, POON Ka Ki, LAU Yan Ling Veronica, NG Wai Ying Zoe, NG Lam Kwan
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Champion – HK$8,000
 

ReceBuy

Christian SEURIG, Oliver PADMAPERUMA, Matthias BROCK
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 Judges & Vice-Chancellor of The CUHK

18 Semi Finalists & Semi Final Rundown

Final Competition

All CUHK Staffs and Students are invited to attend ~
The Vice-Chancellor’s Cup of Students Entrepreneurship 2012 Final Competition. 

This year, the competition was especially keen, we had to reduce the 18 Semi Finalists to 6 Finalists.  We hope that you can take time to join us at VCCE to watch the presentations of the semi-finalists and finalists and that you will continue to develop your entrepreneurial ideas

Date: Saturday February 4th, 2012
Time: 8:45am to 12:30pm (Registration starts at 8:30am)
Venue: CUHK MBA Town Center, 1/F Bank of America Tower ,Central

Final Competition Rundown

For More Information

To find out more about VCCE, please download the following documents listed below and contact Ms. Rosanna Lo at 3943-7542.

Center for Entrepreneurship

Address: Room 951, 9/F Cheng Yu Tung Building at Chak Cheung Street, CUHK
Phone: (852) 3943-7542
Fax: (852) 2994-4363
Email: entrepreneurship@cuhk.edu.hk
Web: www.cuhk.edu.hk/centre/entrepreneurship/