HSMC Innovation Project Competition 2018

About the Competition "The HSMC Innovation Project Competition" aims to promote a culture of innovation & creativity and enrich student learning experience at HSMC. The submission should demonstrate the creative concepts, innovative design/modeling, as well as the applicability and impact.

The competition is organized in three areas: Business, Social and Humanities Innovations.

i. Business Innovation

Business innovation refers to implementing new ideas, deriving more effective processes, creating better products and services that can enhance the competitive advantage to grow and success of a business. Innovation involves the process of translating ideas into goods or services that create values and satisfy the needs and expectations of the customers. Innovation can occur in a wide spectrum of business disciplines including accounting, banking and finance, management, marketing, information system, and logistics and supply chain management as well as interdisciplinary field in business.

ii. Social Innovation

Social Innovation refers to the creation, development, adoption, and integration of new concepts and practices that address the changing social challenges. The social value created contributes the growth of communities and enhances their capacity to act. Innovation may be new ideas enhancing the understanding of human and society, such as political system, social relationships, social psychology,etc.

iii. Humanities Innovation

Humanities innovation is a new idea that contains the potential of its own realization in the form of cultural practices, intellectual movements, and forms of creative cooperation. The scope covers language, literature, art, philosophy, religion and some cross-categories such as photography, film or computer games. Innovation can be ideas reflect and enhance understanding of classics or constructing theory to understand important human value.

Innovation Examples

Business Innovation
I. European Commission - GROWTH

II. Smart Reamer: drilling technology can cut costs for oil explorers

III. Queensland Government – Innovation case study Library Cairns Marine: Fishing for innovation

Social Innovation
I. Isansys Lifecare: transforming the way we keep an eye on patients

II. Green innovation: recycling waste into building blocks

Humanities Innovation
I. Portal Entertainment: Hollywood buys into facial recognition

II. University of Copenhagen Language Technology Paves the Way for New Breakthroughs in Information and Communication Technology

III. 香港藝術館：「竹都好有趣」教育推廣計劃

Eligibility
1. All current HSMC students are eligible to participate.
2. Participants must form a project team with at most three students.

Entry Requirements
Each project team can submit at most one entry. The entry must be the students’ own work demonstrating their creativity and innovation.

Submission
The entry can be in the form of a conceptual model or a prototype.
Each project team is required to complete an application form with a detailed project description in English or Chinese (only for project related to Chinese Culture/Literature). Multi-media illustrations could be attached to the application.
Completed form and attachments must be submitted electronically to the Centre for Teaching and Learning williamyieu@hsmc.edu.hk by 5 March, 2018.

Presentation
Shortlisted project teams may be invited to give a presentation.

Criteria
A panel of judges will be appointed to assess the entries based on the originality, creativity, innovativeness, applicability and impact.
You may download the judging rubric for the competition here.

Awards
An entry in each group will be selected for the HSMC Project Competition Excellence Award. Each Excellence Award team will receive HK$5,000 and an award certificate.
At most five projects will be selected for the HSMC Project Competition Merit Award. Each Merit Award team will receive HK$2,000 and a certificate.
The Excellence Award and Merit Award teams and team members must attend the Awards Presentation Ceremony to receive the awards.

Important Dates
i. Briefing Session:
Date: Monday, 5 February 2018
Time: 15:15 - 16:15
Venue: A212, 2/F, S.H. Ho Academic Building
Registration Link: https://goo.gl/forms/YKrMDjwRdDBrfRSz1/a>
Download Material: Presentation PowerPoint

ii. Submission Deadline: Monday, 5 March, 2018