Every semester at National Yang Ming Jiao Tong University the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition takes place. It extends to all our university students from all the departments and any idea is welcome. If you have that special passion project or skilled coworkers around you, it might be a good idea to give it a shot.
I learned about the competition via the school’s newsletter, but the organizing party - the Center for Academia-Industry Collaboration also provided information sessions and published its results on the official Facebook page.
The registration for the competition
The rules are simple. First, the registration for the competition is required as competitors need to sign up as teams of more than two students. There are two types of competition: one for a product or a service and second category to start a business. Both give the participants a chance to have their idea flourish into reality.
Competition could be used as a jump start to propel further personal and product developments
The main prize is the subsidy for the product, or a start-up development and students can get funding as high as 100.000 TWD. In addition, students can obtain valuable help to develop their ideas even further. Students can organize their lab in 703 co-working space, one of the prime promotional areas in the school that is used to show the NYCU. Important to mention is that vast resources of professors acting in the role of mentors and help of teachers are offered to students, in addition, the other entrepreneurial resources like: competition information, and government plans are provided. In short, competition could be used as a jump start to propel further personal and product developments.
We joined the competition with our project
In the great tradition of start-up ideas, ours was created in a dorm room of NYCU graduate dormitory 3. Our team comprises Mike Glasek Business Lead of our project and student at GMBA, Ivan Kakhaev our Tech Lead, Ph.D. student of Computer Science and, Jacek Fleks, also a GMBA student and a team leader for this project. We joined the competition with our project of a split ergonomic keyboard, a product designed to mainly: increase portability, typing speed, and customizability of typing – a task that is too familiar for us as students. Together we joined forces as the group Ergotype. We conducted market research and concluded that our project is so useful that it might stand a chance in start-up competitions and future maybe even with market forces.
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