On December 2018, 12, the on-campus tournament of the "Hart Prize", a business contest for students that is attracting worldwide attention, was held for the first time at Tokyo Institute of Technology.From Tokyo Institute of Technology, three finalist teams, including the winning team, will advance to the regional final round.
Hart Prize is a global business contest launched in 2009 based on the idea of Ahmad Ashkar, a student and social entrepreneur at Hart International Business School.The idea is to use the power of young people to generate ideas for startups and solve urgent issues for a sustainable society. Also known as the "Nobel Prize for Students," it was featured in TIME magazine as one of the top five world-changing ideas.
More than 100 teams from more than 50,000 countries participated, and qualifying was held all over the world, and the winning team was decided over about a year.The team that proposes the most innovative ideas that will lead to the solution of social problems in the world will be awarded a $ 1 million entrepreneurial fund as a winning prize.The theme for each year will be decided by former US President Bill Clinton. The theme for 100-2018 is "Youth Unemployment-Ideas to Provide Meaningful Jobs to 2019 Young People within 10 Years".
1 teams consisting of 3-4 people from Tokyo Institute of Technology are entered in "Hart Prize @ Tokyo Institute of Technology". Seventeen teams participated and presented ideas for solving the "youth unemployment" that each team had devised for this day in front of judges composed from inside and outside the university.
The winner was "ITHE," a team of students studying information engineering and kansei engineering. "ITHE" proposed the idea of creating a platform for start-up companies.Utilizing the model of gig economy (working style that receives orders for one-off jobs through the Internet and the economic form that is established by it), those who came up with business ideas, those who want to create prototypes, those who promote, and those who commercialize Sharing and sharing work online, such as people, until an idea becomes a product.We will also be able to receive support such as accounting for commercialization.By integrating technologies and communities that are divided by industry and field, such as design, IT, agriculture, and manufacturing, and creating a mechanism that can contribute to business development by making the best use of each field, we will increase the survival rate of start-up companies. He proposed aiming to create new jobs.
As a representative of Tokyo Institute of Technology, "ITHE" will advance to the regional final round with the other two finalists, "AJIL" and "Kizuna".
