Recently, the LIFE GEEK 2017 Think Youth Shanghai International Digital Creation, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, organized by USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry (ICCI) is about to start. DoBe Group organizes the LIFE GEEK ICF, which will mark the opening of this year’s ICF.
As the opening event of the 2nd ICF, LIFE GEEK ICF will focus on international commercial fields, find potential commercial projects and innovative entrepreneurs around the world. From May 1 this year, venture projects and individuals can enter for the competition and learn the rules through the official website and WeChat of ICF. The business tutor group and the jury will select the top 10 projects for Round 3 of the competition. At the International Innovation & Entrepreneurship Fair of ICF in July, the top 5 projects will be selected from the top 10 projects after their roadshow. In the end, the competition will produce one champion, one runner-up, one second runner-up, one investment potential award and one popular maker award. The awards include an eye-catching opportunity to get an investment of USD 1 million, the right to use office spaces in DoBe parks in its global strategic cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Silicon Valley and Florence. No matter you are a Chinese or foreign college student or university graduate, as long as you are under 36 years old and have an international commercial venture project, you can get the opportunity to receive counseling from our world first-rate business tutor group, stand on the stage of the roadshow at the International Innovation & Entrepreneurship Fair of ICF, face a test from our top-class roadshow jury.
During the first ICF in 2016, DoBe Group for the first time put forward the “Smart Circle” strategy, presented Ten Awards for cultural, creative, sci-tech, innovative industries, including the “Creative and Cultural Enterprise of the Year”, “Growing Enterprise of the Year”, “Cross-Disciplinary Innovative Product of the Year”, “Chinese Cultural Influence of the Year”, etc., organized various kinds of community activities in its parks. Nearly 5,000 enterprises and 100,000 people took part in the online and offline activities. Nearly 100 Chinese and foreign media reported the activities. World famous accounting firms like PwP, leading enterprises in the financial industry like TRONFUND, Citi Orient Securities, Jiangxi Copper Neighborhood Asset Management, CMIG Capital Management and Zhuoyuan Capital were assembled. DoBe also joined hands with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai University and Donghua University to build a high-quality HR service platform for enterprises in its parks.
The 2nd ICF pending has attracted high attention from government departments at various levels and all kinds of social organizations. DoBe strives to create a community communication and trade fair for innovation and entrepreneurship hand in hand with its global business resources in its strategic cities, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Florence and Silicon Valley. In addition, this ICF has been included in the “Celebration for the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Return to China & Shanghai-Hong Kong Culture Month”. The “Shanghai-Hong Kong Culture Month” is co-organized by the Hong Kong & Macao Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization and other government agencies for supporting cultural exchanges, cultural fusion and mutual promotion between Shanghai and Hong Kong.
As a leading cultural, creative, sci-tech, innovative enterprise service provider in China, DoBe Group not only aims to provide enterprises with a comfortable physical environment, but also hopes enterprises can get better development assisted by DoBe Group’s innovative services, thereby supporting industrial development. Apart from paying attention to college students’ venture projects, this year’s ICF also will pay attention to community value. DoBe Group’s Board Chairman Jia Bo said: “community-based operation will make it easier to build high-quality business community ecosystem, promote linkages and communication between enterprises and enterprises, enterprises and people, people and people.”
From 2011, promoted by DoBe Service Center for Cultural and Creative Enterprises, DoBe parks began to build all kinds of business communication and information platforms for cultural and creative enterprises, hold community activities regularly, to let upstream and downstream enterprises in each industry have communication, exchanges and cooperation freely, thereby producing the effect of 1+1>2. Many park clients began to know each other and cooperate with each other.
It’s reported this ICF also will introduce many platform resources, such as the pioneer of “National Reading” Spiritual Wealth Club, the roadshow platform Light-hi, the reliable trainee headhunting website qushixi.net, many media communities, such as Blue Whale Media’s Maocaijing, Female Financial Journalists’ Club, focus on topics the public cares about, such as “Internet Product Operation”, “Employment of Young People Born in the 1990s”, to create all-round professional community activities.
ICF is a platform that aims to promote cultural and creative enterprises’ linkages and cooperation with sci-tech innovation enterprises, promote cultural, creative and sci-tech, innovative enterprises’ linkages and cooperation with the financial community, create an ecological agglomeration where everything grows. It assembles all kinds of capital and diversified resources. In such an environment, the LIFE GEEK ICF also will be a competition attracts the capital community’s attention. Entrepreneurs with different skin colors, speaking different languages, from different countries and different industries will show their spirit of innovation from different cultures on this big stage, discuss and learn with each other in the process of introducing and promoting their commercial projects, fuse different business models and entrepreneurial ideas, thereby giving birth to venture ideas that have a global vision and world view.
