Prepared by Azrina Azlan
Photo by Khoo Hock Eng and Lim See Meng
KUALA LUMPUR, 22 May (UM) - The very first Tech Plan Grand Prix in Malaysia has been a success. On 22 June 2015 at the Research Management and Innovation Complex in University of Malaya, a total of 13 teams with their original business plan gathered to showcase their ideas. The event started with short presentation by Professor Dr. Rofina Yasmin Othman, Director of UMCIC, Universiti Malaya. Her talk′s main topic covered the importance of innovation coming from research in Universities. She also mentioned how those efforts are being supported by the Universiti of Malaya with examples of university born startup companies.
The 1st prize belonged to C-Heart Team from Universiti Putra Malaysia, where their business plan was on "the Production of supercritical carbon dioxide extracted C-Heart Oil" by Dr. Khoo Hock Eng and Associate Professor Dr. Azrina Azlan. The 1st and 2nd runner ups were the teams from University of Malaya (1st runner up: Flash Team, "Mini Desktop size selective laser sintering", Darween Reza Sabri, Chu Wei Hong, Vincent Lok; 2nd runner up, N-ext Team, "Nanofibre wound dressing", Chen Li Chau, Dr. Amalina Binti Muhammad Afifi). The 1st prize winner be representing Malaysia to Japan for attending Agri Science GP in Tokyo Japan on 3 Oct. 2015. The C-Heart Team will be competing with Japanese teams and other winning teams from Singapore and Taiwan.
For more information, visit https://en.lne.st/my/.
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Latest Update : Tue, 01 Sep 2015 (khoo_hock)
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