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Design-centered 
Entrepreneurship

Overview

Project Nature

 

Entrepreneur Training Programme

Funding Body

Overview

 

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design (PolyU Design) launched the ‘HKDC x SD -Design-Centred Entrepreneurship’ programme with Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) to establish a new ecosystem conducive to the development of design entrepreneurs in the urban community environment, and to promote the value creation of excellent enterprises with design, to achieve the new entrepreneurship with a design-centered idea. 

Officially launched on the 11th of November, 2020, the programme is offering course training, seminars, and workshops lasting for two months and provides 38 design start-ups from HKDC’s Design Incubation Programme (DIP) with design and business thinking collision. It enables design-centered start-ups to cultivate and develop the key knowledge and skills needed for entrepreneurship in the 21st century and build an innovation platform for academic and commercial integration. 

The programme team combines the professional strength and international vision of PolyU Design in the field of design research and professional education, as well as HKDC’s knowledge and experience in the design industry and innovation ecology of Hong Kong. It goes for the cooperation mode of industry-university cooperation and mutual benefit. 

Project Team

The project team includes the following members from PolyU Design:

Prof Kun-pyo LEE

Advisor

Dean

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Prof Henry MA

Trainer

Associate Dean

(Resources & Infrastructure Management)

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Scott Chin

Trainer

Senior Teaching Fellow

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Kevin Denney

Content Manager

Professor of Practice

(Social Innovation)

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Dr Newman LAU

Trainer

Associate Professor

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William LIANG

Trainer

Teaching Fellow

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Dr Sylvia LIU

Project Manager

Associate Professor

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Dr Jörn BÜHRING

Trainer

Assistant Professor

Benny LEONG

Benny LEONG

Trainer

Professor of Practice

(Design Practice)

Project Assistants: Tiffany Fong, Das Bharati, Bing Zheng

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