In September, CTT helped coordinate a visit to Waterloo Region by the Taiwanese Young Entrepreneuers of the Future (YEF). YEF was founded by the Epoch Foundationin 2003 to help the program’s students to nurture a global vision, enhance innovation, entrepreneurship, and build their networks in the global entrepreneurial community. YEF trains the students through the ten-month program, including team building, mentor coaching, business plan development, entrepreneurial workshops, English oral assessment and an overseas visit. Each year YEF program selects approximately seventeen finalists from nearly two hundred student applicants from Taiwan’s top universities. The finalists are rewarded by having the opportunity for an overseas visit to the most active entrepreneurial communities – and this year, that community was Waterloo Region.
The Finalists get the opportunity to share ideas with companies’ entrepreneurs and student groups, build up the networks and further broaden their horizons. The Students, accompanied by Terence Huang, Manager of Quanta Computer in Taiwan, enjoyed an exhilarating itinerary, including visits and tours to VeloCity, the Accelerator Centre, the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, the University of Waterloo Center for Automotive Research (WatCAR), the Communitech Hub, CIGI and some local tourist attractions.
The YEF finalists were inspired and enthused about the area. When asked “What makes this area so special?” They replied…
Cindy Yen, Student, Department of Public Finance, National Chengchi University
Yin-Yu Lin, Student, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University
Yao-Yu Lin, Student, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University
In the past eight years, YEF overseas visits centered in Silicon Valley and Boston, and included stops at places like Google, Sun Micro, Juniper Networks, IDEO, Digg, Meebo, E-ink, i-Robot , MIT and UC Berkeley.
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