Take your idea from concept to reality

• Innovation or startup teams substantially led by NTU students. The lead applicant must be an NTU student (undergraduate, master’s or doctoral) at the time of application.
• Team members may include students from other universities, NTU alumni and others outside NTU. Faculty advisors may not be the lead applicant.
• Entries must already have a concrete plan, product prototype, service model or early working result.
• Work arising from a master’s or doctoral thesis or a research project is welcome. It must make a clear innovative contribution and show technical validation, a prototype, real-world use or a concrete application scenario. Judges look at innovation, working or validated results and potential impact, not publication count or academic standing.
• Teams that have formed a company or received grants may apply. Teams that have taken equity investment from a venture capital firm, a company or another institution before the application deadline are not eligible.
• Entries should in principle have been completed within the past year, or have made significant progress within the past year, such as a breakthrough, technical validation or real-world use (counted back from the application deadline).
• The same work may not be entered more than once, including by splitting or renaming it. A team may submit different, substantially distinct entries.
• For work from a faculty-led research project or lab, the students must have taken a substantial part in the core innovation and obtained the advisor’s or research team’s consent to compete and present publicly. Taking part does not change existing intellectual property or ownership of research results.

• An introduction to the team and the entry
• What makes it innovative
• Working results or early validation data
• Expected applications and impact
• Supporting slides or demo materials

No full business plan is required. Students can apply as a team; faculty are welcome to recommend promising teams, and alumni can spread the word or join a team.

Go to the application form (in Chinese)　Download the rules and documents (in Chinese)

Judges consider each entry in light of its nature and stage, looking at:

• Innovation
• Working or validated results
• Value of the application (industry use or social impact)
• Future potential

Research-based entries do not need a company, revenue or commercial launch.

1. 10/26Applications open
2. 11/15Applications close
3. 11/27Finalists notified
4. 11/30Finalists announced
5. 12/5Final and awards

Prizes, numbers of winners and conditions are as above. Rules on prize payment will be announced later.

• Application materials and the final pitch count as public disclosure. If your work involves an invention not yet filed for a patent, consult the NTU Center of Industry-Academia Collaboration before applying.
• Details of the audience vote and prize payment will be announced later.
• Questions about eligibility or investment status? Contact us before applying: ntutec@ntutec.com or neil.yang@ntutec.com; phone: NTUTEC +886-2-3366-1573.