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Creativity Turns into Real Business - 'Cyberport IncuTrain Programme' Opens Recruitment for Start-ups Application

Cyberport IncuTrain Centre
2009-07-15 11:27 604

HONG KONG, July 15 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Cyberport IncuTrain Centre ("IncuTrain") announced the opening of recruitment for a new round of applications to incubate newly start-ups. The scope of the programme is now expanded to cover both Digital Entertainment Industry and Creative Lifestyle Content. Applications for both on-site and off-site incubation should be submitted on or before September 30, 2009. Vetting will be held in October 2009. For off-site incubation, applications are welcomed all year round. The next application deadline for off-site is on August 10, 2009 and vetting will be held at the end of August 2009.

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To facilitate the Incubation Programme, a "Pre-Incubation Programme" will be organized by IncuTrain on August 4, 2009 which welcomes the public to join. Details of event are as follow:

Cyberport IncuTrain "Pre-Incubation Programme"

Date: August 4, 2009 (Tuesday)

Time: 12:00 to 17:30

Venue: Cyberport IncuTrain Centre

Unit 518, Level 5, Cyberport 3 (Core F), 100 Cyberport Road,

Hong Kong.

Charge: Free

Rundown: Introduction to Cyberport IncuTrain Programme

Experience sharing by Graduate Incubatee

Business proposal writing technique

Q & A session and Cyberport tour

(Light lunch will be served)

To enroll, please email to training@cyberport.hk indicating your name, contact number and email address by August 1, 2009. For Enquiry, please contact 3166 3907. Seats are limited and on a first come first serve basis.

Established by the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, IncuTrain is a unique incubation base for developing digital entertainment and multimedia industries in Hong Kong. Since its establishment in 2005, IncuTrain aims to create a cluster for potential and creative start-ups digital entertainment companies to develop their business and to provide them with services and financial supports of all kinds.

As of June 2009, total 139 applications have been received and 72 Incubatees companies have been admitted to IncuTrain, 40 of them have graduated and total 387 headcounts have been created. Due to the satisfactory outcome in the first phase, Innovation and Technology Fund allocated another 25 million funding to extend IncuTrain programme for another 3 years and the scope of the programme is also expanded to cover both Digital Entertainment Industry and Creative Lifestyle Content to benefit more start-ups in the industries.

Throughout the years, our Incubatees and Alumni have won 35 international and local industry awards, including Stockholm Challenge, Banff World Television Awards, International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam, Mercury Excellence Awards in New York, Asia Pacific ICT Award and Hong Kong ICT Awards.

For more information about IncuTrain, please visit http://www.incutrain.hk or http://cyberportincutrain.blogspot.com/

To apply, please download application form and brochure from http://www.incutrain.hk

About IncuTrain

Funded by the Innovation and Technology Fund, the Hong Kong Cyberport IncuTrain Centre is the first and only incubation and training centre exclusively for the local digital entertainment industry, IncuTrain aims to build and promote entrepreneurship and competence for commercialization success in the digital entertainment industry of Hong Kong, to create a cluster for potential and creative small-to-medium size companies to develop their business, and to generate a pool of creative business talents for the industry.

IncuTrain provides these start-up companies with fully equipped office spaces, advance digital production facilities, support in business development, training, legal advice, internship recruitment, and facilitate partnership matching and collaborations with local and overseas organizations.

For enquiry, please contact

Tel: +852-3166-3907

Fax: +852-3166-3027

Email: incutrain@cyberport.hk

Source: Cyberport IncuTrain Centre
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