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Asian Institute of Technology
OCTOBER 2019
AIT LAUNCHES THE AIT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER
THE AIT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER HAS BEEN LAUNCHED TO EQUIP STUDENTS AND FACULTY WITH THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION AND START-UPS
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he AIT Entrepreneurship Center was launched at the “100 Innovations X Entrepreneurs” conference on 27 September 2019 organized by AIT. The Entrepreneurship Center is envisioned to be a place for incubating young entrepreneurs and providing them with entrepreneurial and innovative capabilities for sustainable development. AIT President Eden Woon said: “I expect the AIT Entrepreneurship Center to be a breeding ground for future business leaders as well as a learning center, where AIT students, faculty, and alumni come to share their knowledge to create innovations and businesses with the ultimate goal of enhancing economic and social development. It will also be an inclusive center, reaching out to interested outside academic and business parties, and it will be the home base for our new Entrepreneurship Minor.”
From left: Prof. Dieter Wilhelm Trau, Dr. Eden Woon, Dr. Pan-arj Chairatana, Dr. Subin Pinkayan, and Dr. Naveed Anwar
Inaugural events organized by the AIT Entrepreneurship Centre include a “ideas entrepreneurship camp” with student delegations from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and National University of Singapore and AIT. Then there was an expert talk by Ludovic Sinet of Good Tech Lab on “The Role of Science and Technology in Solving the World’s Biggest Problems” held on October 8, 2019; and a visit by a delegation from the National Innovation Agency led by its Executive Director Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana on October 7, 2019. The AIT Entrepreneurship Center is located in the AIT Enterprise Building on AIT campus. The Center offers an “Innovation space” for co-working, a “Maker space” for prototyping and a “Support space” with experts helping in IP and business development.
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