Business Plan Contest at SOI Asia 2011 - 2012
- Building the future from Asia -
- For All Innovators -
Paper submittion due : Nov 29 24:00 [GMT+9]
Final presentation contest : Dec 20 11:10 [GMT+9]
"Technology entrepreneurship gives us capabilities to prove whether our
technology is accepted and can benefit to people, and may derive our
economic incentives"
- Statement from
2008 Spring SOI Asia meeting in Keio, Japan

1. Purpose

SOI Asia is happy to host a business plan contest on coming December 20,2011, to cultivate the environment for the potential entrepreneurs in the region and to prepare and efficient fund matching opportunity with research asset originated from universities. This contest is hosted by SOI Asia Business Platform LLP that engages in entrepreneur assistance, and supported by Keio University Incubation Center. We wish to promote the entrepreneur development by the students, faculty members, researchers and graduates from the SOI Asia partner institutions through this contest.

2. Speical lecture for Business plan contest [25 October 2011, 14.00-15.00 GMT+9]

Assistant. Prof. Masaki Umejima will give a special lecture explaining about the business plan contest to students who are planning to join this year's competition.

Lecture video archive click here

Lecture materials download here

3. Submission Procedure

Please download this format [ppt| pdf] and fill in your ideas to be submitted from the following file uploader
by November 29, 2011, 24:00 GMT+9
Submission Closed
You can also use your own format, but we strongly recommend that you use the provided format

4. Evaluation Criteria

    Evaluation is done based on this sheet: Guide for Business Plan Contest at SOI Asia 2011-2012

    We will invite prominent specialists as judges from many fields: e.g. IT technology, Management, Intellectual Property, Financial Sector, Accountant and University faculty members. The details of the judges and advisors will be announced on this web shortly.


5. Evaluation Process & Result

  • 1st round: Judgements based on the submitted documents
    Submission Due: November 29, 24:00 GMT+9

    Announcement of the 1st Round Result
    The following candidates has passed the 1st round
    TeamInstitution
    Virtual pet (ITB)
    Lentera Nusantara (ITB)
    Ikuzo (Keio and Chula)
    e-Meukat Online store in the Cloud (Unsyiah)
    i-Future (USM)
    Smart Housing System (Keio)

  • 2nd round: Judgements based on the presentation
    The qualified candidates who passed the 1st round will be asked to give a 10 minutes presentation on
    December 20, 2011 11:10 - 12:40 GMT+9.

6. Prize

The prize of this contest is Air ticket and accommodation for visiting one of SOI Asia partner universities.

7. Language

The documents and presentations should be in English.

8. Judges (TBD)



9. Useful Information