Minor in Science Entrepreneurship

Opening the doors to entrepreneurship

This Minor aims at:

minor objective

Train the essential entrepreneurial skills and mindset
Practise what is learnt from the classroom immediately
Build a solid team and real business venture

Some highlights of the Minor:

Unlike other major or minor programmes, the Minor in Science Entrepreneurship established by the Faculty of Science is unique in that it focuses on integrating different mindsets and skillsets of students. Students can immediately practice what they have learned in the classroom with substantial external resources in support. Here are some unique features of the Minor:

Multi-disciplinary Creative-Entrepreneurship Approach:
- Science Student + Engineering Student + Business Student + Science/Art Student...
Unique Hand-in-Hand Walk Through Process to create a business venture:
- Learning the essentials
- Internship in start-ups
  - Learning the daily operation of a start-up
  - Helping to write the investment proposal for the start-up
Teaching and caching by internal and external expertise:
- Practice what is learned
- Form their teams with different disciplines during studying
- Set up their own start-up companies
Post Minor follow-up activities
- Further coaching
  - Business Plan competitions
  - Application of Incubation Programme
    - iDendron at HKU
    - HKSTP/CyberPort
Fund raising activities
- Government TSSSU Fund at HKU
- Angel investors

[Video] Programme Director of the Minor in Science Entrepreneurship Dr Rocky Law introducing the unique features of the Minor.

[Video] Introduction of the content of the Minor, courses and the application procedure.

[Video] Student Testimonial

1^st Cohort