 | Opening the doors to entrepreneurship |
This Minor aims at:
- Train the essential entrepreneurial skills and mindset
- Practice 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
- Further coaching
- 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
1st Cohort
Mr Cameron Xavier van Breda (BSc)
Major: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Minor: Science Entrepreneurship
Mr Harry Chu (BSc)1st Major: Chemistry 2nd Major: Finance Minor: Science Entrepreneurship | Mr Keith Chau [BBA(IBGM)]1st Major: International Business and Global Management 2nd Major: Business Design and Innovation Minor: Science Entrepreneurship | Ms Sara Yue (BSc)Major: Decision Analytics Minor: Science Entrepreneurship | ||
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2nd Cohort
Mr Ari Chiu Nok Tsang (BSc)Major: Molecular Biology & biotechnology 1st Minor: Science Entrepreneurship 2nd Minor: Italian | Ms Henley Wing Yue Yeung (BBA)Major: Accounting and Finance Minor: Science Entrepreneurship | Mr Jose Ngo Hay Chan (BEng)Major: Civil Engineering Minor: Science Entrepreneurship | ||
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Mr Thomas Wai Hin Chu (BSc)Major: Food and Nutritional Science Minor: Science Entrepreneurship | Mr Michael Wang (BEng)Major: Computer Science 1st Minor: Science Entrepreneurship 2nd Minor: Marketing | |||
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3rd Cohort
Ms Anna Fong Lam Ng (BSc)Major: Molecular Biology & Biotechnology 1st Minor: Science Entrepreneurship 2nd Minor: Music | Ms Lofti Fard Marjan (BSc)Major: Molecular Biology & Biotechnology 1st Minor: Science Entrepreneurship 2nd Minor: Arabic | Ms Tina Ko (BSc)Major: Food and Nutritional Science 1st Minor: Science Entrepreneurship 2nd Minor: French | ||
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Mr Christopher Lee (BBA)Major: Information Systems 1st Minor: Computer Science 2nd Minor: Science Entrepreneurship | ||||
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