2022 HKUST One Million Dollar International Entrepreneurship Competition (Guangzhou Region)
2022 HKUST One Million Dollar International Entrepreneurship Competition (Guangzhou Region) consists of the First-round Project Selection, Semifinal Competition, Final Competition and Awards Ceremony. This year, the Guangzhou Region opens “International Talent Track” and “University Student Track” for the first time alongside with the Guangzhou Region Main Track to encourage more overseas start-up teams and university students to participate. Each participating team shall select one individual track to join for the first-round selection, and compete with teams from other tracks at the Semifinal phase for moving on to the Final Competition of Guangzhou Region. The mechanism for each track is as follows, for more information, please refer to attached guidebook.
Guangzhou Region (Main Track)
The Guangzhou Region (Main Track) welcomes participating team from any innovation fields or any country/region to sign up by filling the online registration form and submitting tech-driven business plan that demonstrates your commercialization strategy.
International Talent Track
The International Talent Track allows participating teams from HK, Macau, Taiwan or overseas countries (25% of team members or company shares must come from abroad) to sign up for competition by filling registration form and submitting business plan in Simplified Chinese or English language, or alternatively, submitting a 1-minute project introduction video as replacement to BP. The teams that emerged in Top 2 of this track will be promoted to Guangzhou Region Final Competition directly.
University Student Track
A team which is composed of Undergraduate / Master / PhD student(s) can sign up to the University Student Track by filling online registration form and submitting business plan or 1-minute project introduction video. The business plan generated by team who participates in entrepreneurship trainings hosted by Competition Committee shall be reviewed by panel from HKUST(GZ). And team with innovative business plan may have the opportunity to be recommended to join the “Red Bird Challenge Camp”.
Online Application Time: From now – July 5, 2022
Online Application Link: https://hkust-gzmd.wareton.com
For more information, please contact:
Email: ibao.fytri@ust.hk Tel(WeChat): +86 132 2931 8293
Timeline of 2022 Guangzhou Region Event
| Phase One – First-round Selection by Individual Track | |
| Jul 05 | Closing of Online submission platform;
Submitted project info to be reviewed by individual track panel |
| Jul 18 | Announcement of Guangzhou Region Top 50 |
| Phase Two – Semi-final for Guangzhou Region | |
| Jul 23 | Announcement of Guangzhou Region Top 24 |
| early Aug | Announcement of Semi-final panelists |
| Mid Aug | Semi-final Competition Day;
Announcement of Guangzhou Region Top 12 |
| Phase Three – Final for Guangzhou Region | |
| Mid Aug | Final Competition Day |
| Mid Aug | Awards Ceremony |
【Guidebook】2022 HKUST One Million Dollar International Entrepreneurship（…
