University Students Innovative Business Contest calls for entries

The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, together with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Hong Kong, launched the "University Students Innovative Business Contest" and called on university students to actively participate in the Contest.

To promote excellence in the service industries, the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce launched the Hong Kong Awards for Services in 1997, which has remained the "Oscars" of the service industries. Since the Awards' inception the Chamber has been the leading organiser of the "Innovation" category of the Hong Kong Awards for Services.

Dr Eden Woon, CEO of the Chamber said, "For Hong Kong to continue to succeed, the success attributes of creativity, speed and quality have to be promoted not only among the practising business sectors but, equally importantly, to our younger generation. The Chamber is therefore organising a junior category of the HKGCC Innovative Service Award among students." The Contest is supported by the Business and Services Promotion Unit of the HKSAR Government.

Applicants are requested to submit a 2000-word business proposal on assigned topics. Outstanding students will be invited to present their business proposals to a judging panel. Winner students will be presented with a certificate and they will have opportunities to network with business leaders. The application details are on Chamber website at www.chamber.org.hk/inn. Application deadline is 16 October 2002.

The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is the largest business organisation in Hong Kong, playing an active part in facilitating and supporting Hong Kong services sector to develop and enhance their competitiveness.

For further information, please contact Dr W K Chan on telephone 2823 1293.