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Cyberport's CCMF awards funding to 15 excellent projects |
Cyberport concluded, in February, recruitment for its first Cyberport Creative
Micro Fund (CCMF) scheme selecting 15 projects to each receive HK$100,000 and
help develop their ideas into prototypes.
"Cyberport strives to encourage creativity and provide comprehensive support to
creative talents in the ICT sector in Hong Kong," says Herman Lam, CEO of
Cyberport. "In the 15 selected projects you can see a real diversity in the
kinds of companies and ideas chosen. Some of them are the more seasoned
professional with concept that have already won international awards while on
the other hand, we have the very freshest ideas from university students that
are equally promising. With proper assistance and nurturing, we believe
that some of these ideas can turn into vivid businesses."
Besides the encouraging response on the first official CCMF scheme, the
Cyberport Creative Micro Fund Young Entrepreneur Programme (CCMF-YEP) was
successfully concluded in February 2012. After months of close cross-border
collaboration, the winning joint Hong Kong‒Shenzhen teams were selected from
more than 100 talented young entrepreneurs from Hong Kong and Shenzhen who are
passionate about starting Internet businesses.
The success of CCMF-YEP demonstrates the benefits of collaboration between Hong
Kong and Mainland China, it is only the beginning in Cyberport's cross-border
efforts to help local entrepreneurs make the most of the business opportunities
available in both markets, pursuing the vision of Cyberport as a regional ICT
hub and reaching out to the Mainland market with representative offices in
Shanghai and elsewhere.
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