Posted by: pin on: 02 Sep, 2008
Last week, Yowchuan and I make a visit to MMU incubator to meet up with the two founders of Enveluv, Rasel and Avijit Paul, together with Pei Lee and Dr. Yong. We can see the big dream behind the small incubator office, and the passion of them to make their dream come true! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: pin on: 26 Aug, 2008
Pei Lee visited my office last week, to check out how was Agnes and Eunice doing, both of them are in their 3-months internship training. We have a great talk. I shared with her about my plan to setup an incubator for young entrepreneurs. And, come to know that Pei Lee has published a paper related to the technopreneurship programs of MMU.
She is kind enough to send me a copy of the paper. Include here is the abstract of the paper. If you are looking for the fulltext paper, please check with Pei Lee.
Multimedia University’s experience in fostering and supporting undergraduate student technopreneurship programs in a triple helix model (Abstract)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the first three dimensions of the triple helix model. The focus of this paper is to study and develop a model for the role and functions performed by a university to nurture undergraduate student technopreneur development.
This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the process of the technopreneurship program undertaken by Multimedia University (MMU) in 1999-2005. The analysis is based on the self-administered questionnaires, qualitative interviews, internal documents, web sites and direct observation. Electronic questionnaires are e-mailed to 24 founders of start-ups to explore their views on the entrepreneurial support structures in MMU.
The success of MMU in undertaking the technopreneurship programs is the result of the organization structure, management’s policies and priorities which are concentrated on creating and sustaining the necessary support structures to foster undergraduate student entrepreneurial activities.
A very interesting and useful information and impartial for new university planning to establish a culture of new enterprise creation within a university. It should be noted that though this is a study of various aspects of the success of MMU in undertaking technopreneurship programs, however, this will have an implication of how triple helix strategic model can be implemented in China.
Many universities have focused more on linkages of entrepreneurship and commercial-valued research involving academic staff and postgraduate students rather than undergraduate student entrepreneurship. It is believed that MMU is one of the few entrepreneurial universities which focuses on undergraduate students, who, from enrollment to graduation, are offered constant encouragement, training and support for their efforts to conceive and start up business enterprises. This paper is intended to share the experiences of MMU in fostering and supporting undergraduate student technopreneurship programs in a triple helix model. This paper is intended to share the experiences of MMU in fostering and supporting undergraduate student technopreneurship programs in a triple helix model with readers in China and out of China who have interest on the effective implementation of the university - government - industry strategic partnership.
Source: Teh Pei-Lee and Yong Chen-Chen (2008), “Multimedia University’s experience in fostering and supporting undergraduate student technopreneurship programs in a triple helix model”, Journal of Technology Management in China, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2008, pp. 94-108.
Posted by: pin on: 23 Aug, 2008
I must admit, we don’t have golden finger - but just some down-to-earth experience which we have went through and which we think you might be interested.
You’ve chosen the off-the-beaten path. You’ve thousand of decisions to make from now on, from choosing a name for your Blog, to how to generate your first quotation. How important is your namecard design and is it worth to spend your bullet banging on billboard? How about business model and sustaining your business in the coming days…
Yes, my partner Yowchuan and I, wish to have a cuppa with you, sit down and listen to you. The reason for us to do so, because we believe through sharing, we learn - we learn from you too!
Posted by: pin on: 01 Aug, 2008
My partner, Yowchuan was one of the few entrepreneurs invited to MMU’s Centre for Commercialization and Technopreneur Development (CCTD) 8 years ago. Through it was merely a 300 sqf of space, but was already big enough for our dream to wonder far. Having the first office there, we never look back again.
If I’m not wrong, there are few incubators in Malaysia, check out the full list of MSC Malaysia status incubators. Looking back, some incubators are just like another MSC, both work like The Real Estate Corridor.
Not only this, some trying to confuse our technopreneur to make them believe that all big dream need some big funding. Yet, at many times, they can’t even tell you if your business model is right? You spent lot of your time attending entrepreneur-related talk and meet up with those ’successful’ businessman who shows you where they are now, but not how to get there!
Working with my interns over the years, I believe we have talented graduates for sure. They are lacking of confident, instead of funding and cubicle space. Talking about this, schools should actually allow them to pursue their dream as early as during their final year project stage, than working on those impractical project to look good in GPA/CPA. If they start earlier, they save more time and prepare themselves better before graduating!
What entrepreneurs want?
The physical space of where they work is never bigger than their dream. When you’re the only one to go off the beaten road after graduating, you need more than the incubator to realize your dream!
Long Way Home of a Web Developer
Decide Your Business Model Today!
Classified Companies
Google’s Web Design Company
