The
Big Business Idea 2005/6
The
'Big Business Idea' Competition prizegiving!
£1000
worth of cash prizes will be awarded on the evening!
- Date:
Monday, March 27th, 2006
- Venue:
The Tasting Rooms (No.5, South Ward Road,
Dundee - Next to Jumping Jacks nightclub.)
- Time:
6 - 8pm
Guest
speakers:
- Graeme
Scott - Director of the Tasting Rooms.
- 'Waracle'
- "Connecting PC gamers around the world in a new and
exciting Internet environment." - The
University of Abertay's successfull student venture.
A
special thanks goes to this years judges:
- Graeme Scott - The Tasting Rooms
- Jim Connor - Royal Bank of Scotland
- Mike Royden - Thorntons Solicitors
- Bob Douglas - Business Gateway,
Dundee
To
win the iPod Nano, entrants had to grab one
of the competition beermats in the Abertay Student Centre
or one of the bookmarks in the Abertay library. Fill in the
details on the back, then drop it into one of the gold Aspire
submission boxes located at the reception in the Kydd Building,
Library or in the first floor bar of the Student Centre. Congratulations
to student Anu Kolari from Lapland who's idea was picked to
win by Catherine Hill, the PSYBT regional manager.
'Copyright Fotopress'
Pictured:
From the left - Greg Sim (SIE Intern), John Scott (Scottish
Enterprise Tayside), Neil Bowie (Embreonix Student Enterprise
officer), Anu Kolari (Winner), Catherine Hill (PSYBT)
For
help with generating business ideas please see our Ideas
Generation document and What's
the big idea?!
To
win up to £350, entrants were simply
required to complete this application
form and email it to
entries@aspiresociety.co.uk.
The
prizes are:
| 1st Prize |
£350 |
| 2nd Prize |
£250 |
| 3rd Prize |
£100 |
| Best Social Enterprise Idea |
£50 |
| Best entry relating to Computing and
Creative Technologies |
£50 |
| Best entry relating to Contemporary
Sciences |
£50 |
| Best entry relating to Social and Health
Sciences |
£50 |
| Best entry relating to Dundee Business
School |
£50 |
| Best entry relating to Specialist Studies
(PGrad / MBA) |
£50 |
Four
applications were selected to take part in the SIE
National Student Business Plan competition to compete
for £10,000.
You
can find more info about this on the SIE
website.
You
can email Greg for more information at: entries@aspiresociety.co.uk
.
The
DEADLINE was Friday 9th December 2005 @ 5pm
.
Guidelines
for the entries were as follows:
- You can enter as an individual or as
a team.
- Entrants must be current students.
- The team leader and majority of the team
must be students at the University of Abertay Dundee.
- You can enter as many ideas as you like.
- All information will be kept strictly
confidential.
- Entries should be emailed to entries@aspiresociety.co.uk
- The four entries considered by a juding
panel to be suitable for fully launching their business
within a Scottish headquarters will be assisted in developing
a business plan to enter the SIE National Business Plan
Competition to win the £10,000 prize.
- SIE National Business Plan entrants will
be invited to attend an expenses-paid weekend business
planning workshop in February 2006 (more details from
info@aspiresociety.co.uk).
- Prizes for the Abertay Aspire Society
Competition presently amount to a total value of £1,000.
- Deadline for entry to all the above competitions
is Friday 9th December 2005 @ 5pm. Entries submitted
after this time and date will not be accepted.
- You can email the Scottish Institute
for Enterprise Intern at Abertay (Greg Sim) for more details
on any of the competitions (info@aspiresociety.co.uk),
or telephone 01382 308528. Alternatively you can drop
by Unit 4 in the embreonix graduate incubator facility
in Kydd Building (just past the ATM machine).
- Technical specifications / pictures /
diagrams / financial outlines may accompany your entry
as separate files.
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