News
Tuesday 22 May 2007
Dragons' Den-style event heading for city
Chinese students are preparing for the final of a Dragons’ Den-style business idea competition, being held in Nottingham on Friday (25 May). An initial field of more than 200 university teams has been whittled down to just four for the event, which has been organised by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) and co-organised by Nottingham Trent University.
The China-UK Business Ideas Competition, being held in Nottingham’s Council House, aims to encourage people to develop collaborative businesses in both countries. It is one of the core events for the CSSA, which is a Chinese Government supported network.
The finalists include a team from Paisley University with a multimedia teaching innovation to help students understand music theory, and a University of Leeds team which has developed and manufactured electro-oxidation reactors for industrial waste water treatment. Next generation superconductors for power generation are the brainchild of a team from the University of Cambridge, while an electricity metering products systems and services start-up idea has come from the University of Sheffield.
They will present their ideas to a panel of judges which includes the Dean of Nottingham Trent University's Nottingham Business School, Professor Baback Yazdani. The teams are competing for a total prize fund of £10,000 and expert business and enterprise advice to help put their idea on the road to commercial success.
Nottingham Trent University student and Vice Chairman of the CSSA, Yu Xiong, said: “This competition involved more than 1,000 participants and attracted a very high standard of entries. I know it will be an extremely difficult task for the judges to select an overall winner on Friday.”
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