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Innovation Mindset & Tools at Hanoi University of Industry is part of a cooperation program between the Youth Union of Hanoi University of Industry (SIP HAUI Club) and VinTech city. In this program, KisStartup acts as a professional training unit for not only students who have a startup project or idea but also teachers in the school with the desire to create core lecturers who can sponsor, support and directly supervise ideas or projects coming out of Hanoi University of Industry.

The intensive training program took place in 04 sessions and ended in the afternoon on November 17, 2019. The end of this training program is the opening of the next 03 months of support for the 05 most potential projects selected under the direct supervision of the source lecturer and KisStartup.

KisStartup hopes this is the beginning of the university's journey in fostering innovation and strong support for the students themselves.

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60 is not a big number, but it is a great number compared to the first 8 mentor-mentee of December 2015 when the SME Mentoring program started in Hanoi. As people are welcoming 2020, a new decade, a community becomes more and more mature and bring true values to mentors and mentees after 4 years of operation.

The founders who participated in the program, the youngest one is 21 years old while the oldest one is 72 years old, shared the joy of belonging to a community that brings values, continuous learning and mutual support.

We have nurtured our community by faith, a positive attitude, above all an open mindset. SME mentoring 1on1 Hanoi cannot exist as it is today without early mentors like Ms. Giang Do, Ms. Diem Anh, and Ms. Huyen Nga, and veteran mentees who would not accept mentors and their relationships will probably last a lifetime, through all highs and lows. Sincere thanks to Mr. Ted Nuyen - the inspirer and instructor, thank Tran Thanh Tung, Kha Vinh enthusiastically for sharing new experiences and perspectives, and especially mentor Phan Dinh Tuan Anh who accompanies SME Mentoring Hanoi.

The model of SME Mentoring 1on1 is initially being replicated in Northern universities.

This year all mentors and mentors of the program received a special gift, which is the book The Go-Giver by Bob Burg & John David Mann. In the book, there is an interesting saying, dedicated to mentor-mentee as a sincere thanks, wish everyone a new year of health, success and new discoveries.

“... even if you do not hold a traditional leadership position, does not mean that you are not in a position to influence others, to inspire and empower others. , to catalyze the greatness of others, to promote their success, to lift them up. In other words, it is to give away leadership, and in doing so it "pokes" the whole world in a positive way”.
 

The book published in 2019 is a result of gathering 10 case studies on business model innovation using IoT applications in Vietnam. 7 out of 10 case studies were conducted by researchers from KisStartup's research team in collaboration with lecturers and researchers of Ton Duc Thang University. The book was published as part of Silicon Valley Asia project, funded by the Government of Taiwan.

Case 1: IoT application in Smart energy in Smart cities – from idea to practice
Author(s)     Minh Nguyen Dang Tuan1, Thi Minh Ly Pham2, Nhan Nguyen Thanh
Case 2: IoT in hotel management – a local approach to empower managers in decision making
Author (s)    Pham Thanh Hang, Pham Thi Minh Ly
Case 3: Smart-home and its impact on real estate industry
Author (s)    Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh, Pham Thi Minh Ly, Nha Le Duc
Case 4: IoT application in child education– how it is changing the way children learn
Author (s)    Nguyen Thi Hanh
Case 5: IoT in agriculture – facing the scalability challenge    
Author (s)    Nguyen Hoang Giang 
Case 6: IoT in health care – a transformational challenge for startups in the field
Author (s)    Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh
Case 7: IoT and Big Data for Smart City Route optimization with big data and the support of existing IoT platform 
Author (s)    Long Nam Pham, Dang Tuan Minh Nguyen, Minh Tuan Phung

On November 18, 2019, KisStartup officially signed a cooperation agreement with Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund. Through this, KisStartup and the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund will cooperate to either finance or sponsor the business projects of young people living or working in Cau Giay District. The collaboration aims to support projects with innovative business models located in the area and focusing on agriculture or service sectors.

In this role, KisStartup will assist in reviewing, selecting and connecting startup projects according to the criteria set out for the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund . At the same time, KisStartup will help foster skills and capability in operation for the fund's staff, coordinate with partners to supervise projects when financial and / or investment support is received.

Forms of the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund in Cau Giay District include:

• Financial support at a maximum of USD 2500

• Invest in implemented projects, have revenue, manage costs and are in need of capital to complete and develop. The total investment capital is from USD 5000 to USD 10000.

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About the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund:

Minh Tri Fund was established under Decision No. 4656 / QD-UBND dated August 26, 2016 of the Hanoi People's Committee on the establishment and recognition of the Charter of Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund in Cau Giay District, Ho Chi Minh City. Hanoi. With the principle and purpose of operation is a social fund, Minh Tri Fund was born to encourage, encourage and provide financial support for ideas, production and business projects of youth (from 16 to 35 age) or youth organizations within Cau Giay District (Hanoi City).

See more information about the Minh Tri Startup Youth Fund at: https://www.quyminhtri.com/

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KisStartup has conducted training courses for managers, lecturers and communication officers in Tra Vinh.

In the framework of cooperation between KisStartup and Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project of Tra Vinh Province (SME Tra Vinh), KisStartup has conducted training on innovation and entrepreneurship for managers, media officers, lecturers from departments, agencies, and universities of Tra Vinh province.

The program aims to incorporate important concepts and thinking of innovative start-ups into the organization's current operations. Mr. Phan Dinh Tuan Anh and Ms. Nguyen Dang Tuan Minh exchanged directly with students about:

* Innovative ways of communicating about start-up innovation through understanding start-up innovation

* Designing and mentoring mentoring, incubating and supporting investment programs for startup projects

After the course, KisStartup and experts will continue to accompany the activities and support managers and lecturers to develop activities in the coming time as well as connect activities of Tra Vinh with network of Vietnamese and international startup ecosystems.

The 3-week of training and coaching for 9 teams participating in SDG Challenge 2019- The program organized by UNDP and NSSC of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

KisStartup team supported the teams in both two rounds to develop and clarify their business models. With the desire to improve the capacity of these innovative start-up teams for the purpose of serving the differently abled community so that the teams can answer questions of  customers, revenue streams, marketing strategy, KisStartup not only provided training but also coaching and networking the teams with experts on Intellectual Property - PhD. Phan Quoc Nguyen, Tax - Assoc.Prof. Dr. Ly Phuong Duyen, Impact Finance and Business Model - MSc. Do Thu Giang and capital support - Thriive.

Besides, 2 months after the training program, KisStartup's Volunteers continue to support communication and marketing for these projects.

In 2 days of October 11 and 12, 2019, KisStartup in collaboration with VinTech City conducted training for 50 lecturers from 24 universities from the Central and the North of Vietnam, at the University of Technology, Hanoi National University. The training course focused on providing basic tools, basic concepts in innovation and entrepreneurship to help lecturers with understanding of innovation tools while using these tools in supporting startups and developing the activities of their Innovation and Entrepreneurship clubs at school in the coming period. In the framework of the program, we also invite experts on the national startup ecosystem, intellectual property and one start-up- WISAMI to join students in exchanging and sharing important experiences and knowledge.

At the end of the program, KisStartup is committed to continue to support the creative start-up club leaders in technology, the lecturers continue to develop their activities, and exchange connections to promote activities among 24 universities.

Effective internal innovation needs to start from providing each member of the organization with new, more important tools and knowledge than new thinking. With training experience for both businesses and startups, KisStartup supports corporations and businesses that want to promote innovation through capacity building for staff.

Learners will experience hands-on activities, new methodology and new mindsets and toolsets for their own projects and/or idea. "Practical values ​​for innovation in businesses" is the testimonials from our clients.

Training program can be customized and classified for different management and execution levels.

To find out how the program works and detail curriculum, please send us your expression of interest to either: https://kisstartup.com/en/lien-he or email us via hello@kisstartup.com. We will respond after 24 hours. You can also call us at +84 982 498 095 (Ms. Mai) or +84 978 137 894 (Ms. Thao)

KisStartup is happy to announce that we have been selected among 112 organisations as applicants to participate in Frontier Incubator and get support from Australian Government.

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Congratulations to CSIP, KisStartup and WISE - Sáng kiến hỗ trợ Phụ nữ Khởi nghiệp và Kinh doanh who have been selected to participate in the #FrontierIncubators program.

This initiative is supporting accelerators + incubators to increase the impact of entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific.

The participants will receive a week of intensive training workshops with program partners (Australia’s innovationXchange, ygap, Conveners.Organd SecondMuse and a customised capacity building program, designed and delivered by a program partner who will work with their teams throughout the program. 

https://www.frontierincubators.org/participants

Source: Australia in Vietnam

A network of innovation ecosystem builders, universities, institutions and businesses joining hands for innovation- with- purpose ideas and projects to flourish and positively impact the community

HOW DID OUR STORY BEGIN?

Our story begins when we work with university talents including students and lecturers in training and coaching for them about innovation and entrepreneurship, we realize that:

(1) Many of the projects and ideas can be turned into impact projects to benefit the community and/or help achieve 17 sustainable development goals. However, not many of them are supported in terms of capacity building, mentoring and coaching to develop their projects. 

(2)None in the market is there to help them to connect with business world. At the same time, corporates and SMEs are struggling to find talented people for intra-innovation and market expansion

Therefore, IPN is to achieve 3 main goals:

• Connecting talented and passionate individuals from universities and institutions with business world
• Enabling innovative ideas to take shape via capacity building programs including design thinking & Lean Startup(training, coaching, mentoring)
• Helping corporates and SMEs to get closer to quality human resources and potential investment in innovation from early stages

For further information about the project, please visit: 

Website của chương trình: http://www.innovationpurpose.com

Brochure của chương trình: HERE