Innovation Contest 4CSRtech

Inspired by UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Contest 4CSRtech is to identify innovative solutions for sustainable challenges in the fast changing world, explore new value creation business model, and more importantly empower everyone to drive the change.

The contest calls on entrepreneurs, social innovators, students, designers, makers, educators and so on.

Ideas include but are not limited to:

• Innovations that could reduce CSR risks, address new challenges such as circular economy, increase factory compliance capacity, transparency and accountability

• Initiatives that promote information collection, systematic management, prevention and control of CSR risks in the supply chain

• Solutions to improve factory and employees' CSR capability via new technologies (AI, Cloud, Big data, Robotic, VR etc), new ways of open platform collaboration (social dialogue, good practice sharing, etc.)  

The candidate should propose product/solution to solve challenge from the following five categories

The selection will be made by the following criteria

• Innovativeness, demonstrated creativity, and originality of idea

What is the novelty of your CSR idea? Is it a radical solution that addresses the stated challenge?

• Impact to the society

What is the greatest challenge in Corporate Social Responsibility? It should impact more than one industry sector and should encompass a large number of stakeholders.

• Quality of the presentation, clarity of idea & Implementation feasibility

Provide clear and concise description of the solution, its feasibility, practicability, sustainability, scale-of-impact and implementability.

• Potential for industry engagement

Is there a clear strategy for industry engagement?

• Supporting evidence

Is there any data presented to support the proposed strategy?

Click HERE​ for proposal requirements and more information about 5 challenges.

Total package to 5 awardees

• Demo at JAC CSR Forum​ (16 multinational telecom companies) in Jan. 2019 in Shenzhen

• Sponsored booth at Vivatech Innovation Fair​– The world's rendez-vous for Startups & Leaders in May 2019 in Paris

• A reward of HKD 20,000/team

• Mentoring from industrial and academic expert

• Opportunity to meet enterprises for internship, enterprises for project implementation, corporate funds and other investors

Participants based outside the Hong Kong SAR will be financially assisted for their mobility (up to HKD 5,000/team depending on the place of residence )