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Be a Technopreneur...

The competition is a collaborative effort by Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) together with the Institution of Higher Learning (IHLs) in Malaysia. The National Unipreneur Development Programme (NUDP) unit under the Technopreneur Development Division (TeDD) is responsible for the overall management of the competition.
 
 

Competition Categories

The competition is open to students, staffs, and researchers of Universiti Sains Malaysia in two categories:

- Business Idea Category (BI):
-  undergraduate students ;
-  does not require a prototype ;
-  maximum 3 persons for each team.

- Business Plan Category (BP):
-  undergraduate, post-graduate students,
   researchers, academic and non-academic
   personnel. 
-  preferably coupled with a prototype
-  Maximum 4 persons for each team.

 
Announcement
  2-minutes "Pitching Video" need to be submitted together with Plan/Idea document

Please submit completed Biz Idea / Plan & "Elevator Pitch" to En Mohd Redzuan Asmi/ Puan Chan at School of Computer Sciences, USM

Submit a total of 3 hard copies and a CD containing the video +  the file for Business Plan/Idea

  
  Competition Schedule
 Activity Date
 Registration- Open 18/10/2010
 Registration- Close 7/11/2010
Submission completed Biz Idea/Plan & "Elevator Pitch" 29 November 2010
Evaluation 30 Nov - 2 December 2010
Competition - Presentation & Judging 8 December 2010
Award Ceremony 9 December 2010
"Fine-tuning" Workshop
(for top 3 winner of each category)		 10 - 14 December 2010
National Pre-Qualification Submission 15 December 2010
Polish up presentations
(If shortlisted for National competition))		 31 December 2010
 
   
   

 

Not just a competition
but more than that...

Finalist and the winner at the national level will have to access the MSC Malaysia TeDD Development Programmes for FREE

Finalist and the winner will be exposed and able to apply MSC Malaysia Technopreneur Pre-Seed Fund. 

 
 
The Rewards (USM level)

 Business Idea  Business Plan
Grand prize RM1,500 RM 2,000
1st Runner up RM 1200 RM 1600
2nd Runner up RM 900 RM  1200
Merit #1 RM 300 RM 400
Merit #2 RM 300 RM 400
Merit #3 RM 300 RM 400
Merit #4 RM 300 RM 400
Merit #5 RM 300 RM 400

 

Official Email :
bpc@usm.my

To get more information, please contact our secretariat :

+ Encik Abdul Rashid Baba       (04) 653 4254
+ Nur Ervinna Ariffin                 (04) 653 3644

Mentors :

+ Dr.Vincent Khoo   (04)  653 4396
   vkhoo@cs.usm.my

+ En.Mohd Shafie Ariffin  (04) 653  2526
   mshafie@usm.my

+ Mohd Yusoff Zainon Hamzah 04)  653 2526
   zmyusoff@usm.my

+ Pn.Rosnah Idrus (04)  653 4384
   rosnah@cs.usm.my

+ Cik Nasuha Lee  (04)  653 4754
   nasuha@cs.usm.my

+ Dr.Ahmad Suhaimi Baharudin  (04)  653 2659
   suhaimi@cs.usm.my



Organised by:
School of Computer Science
www.cs.usm.my

Co-organisers:

 
 
 
 

Hosted by:
Center for Knowledge, Communication and Technology, USM