13 January 2016
IELM (TLE) MPhil student won the second prize in the HKUST MBA Business Plan Competition
Calvin Zhang (Supervisor: Professor Richard So), a second year IELM MPhil student enrolled in the Technology, Leadership and Entrepreneurship (TLE) program, has won the second prize in the annual HKUST 2015 MBA Business Plan Competition with their smart hearing aid business plan. The team has been awarded 18K USD to further develop their business plan for global business plan competition (e.g. Rice Business plan competition).
 
The IELM/TLE program is set up to cultivate students to initiate innovation and to become entrepreneurs to start their own companies with high-end technologies. Students are encouraged to play a catalytic role, as an agent of changes, in developing innovative educational culture and entrepreneurship ecosystems in HKUST campus and to accelerate knowledge transfer to impact society.
 
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