Design-centered
Entrepreneurship
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
Prof Henry MA
Trainer
⎯
Associate Dean
(Resources & Infrastructure Management)
Scott Chin
Trainer
⎯
Senior Teaching Fellow
Kevin Denney
Content Manager
⎯
Professor of Practice
(Social Innovation)
Dr Newman LAU
Trainer
⎯
Associate Professor
William LIANG
Trainer
⎯
Teaching Fellow
Dr Sylvia LIU
Project Manager
⎯
Associate Professor
Dr Jörn BÜHRING
Trainer
⎯
Assistant Professor
Benny LEONG
Trainer
⎯
Professor of Practice
(Design Practice)
Project Assistants: Tiffany Fong, Das Bharati, Bing Zheng