Grant Award View - GA201745
Ventures Discovery Japan Incubator
The program will include online delivery of an incubator designed to encourage entrepreneurial and innovative thinking in Japanese high schools students, Years 11-12. All participants who complete the program are provided a certificate. The program is delivered over four consecutive weeks. Each week comprises a live virtual session with experts followed by recorded sessions and team-based activities for students to achieve a weekly deliverable. The workshops give a comprehensive understanding of the steps involved in an entrepreneurial journey – from the traits of an entrepreneur; customer discovery; ideation; market validation; business modelling; to pitching and storytelling. The program will end in a pitch competition, delivered virtually – streamed to stakeholders at a networking event on campus (pending COVID-19 restrictions). The online program will act as a pilot for an in-person program that we hope to deliver over two weeks in Japan in 2023. The online pilot program will provide us with the opportunity to grow our partnerships with Japanese schools and partners, to support this proposed in-person program.