Awarded by: CEIBS
A team of HKUST MBA students took the championship at the CEIBS-Vanke INNOVATEChina 2014 Entrepreneurship Challenge in Shanghai. The topic this year was Disruptive Innovation – Mobile Internet and New Lifestyles.
From almost 40 entries submitted by top business schools around the world, HKUST and five other teams - the Yale School of Management, CEIBS, INSEAD, Indian School of Business, and Rotman School of Management - reached the finals. They were invited to present their business ideas to a panel of investors that included Sequoia Capital and Morningside Ventures, founders of successful Chinese startups, and to an audience of at least 350 people during the finale at CEIBS, Shanghai campus, on 15 June 2014.
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The HKUST team comprised three full-time MBA students: Brian Lin, Dustin Jefferson Onghanseng, and Yoshimasa Suzuki. Their idea is a solution that provides people with personalized information and insights to help them defend against air pollution. This is done through an indoor air quality sensor that detects pollutants in your home and provides you personalized recommendations, through a mobile app, based on your current state of health.