Our student, Mr. Seyed Hessan Adnani Hosseini and his mentor, an alumnus, Mr. Pooya Charmarai Tohidi, achieved First Place in this year’s “Ennovation” Challenge, besting 177 teams from universities across Cyprus and Greece.
About Ennovation:
Ennovation is an international student competition on Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The competition is run by a network of 18 universities in Greece and Cyprus, with the organisational support of the Athens University of Economics & Business.
The competition aims to educate students and young researchers in the field of innovation and digital entrepreneurship, as well as to promote young entrepreneurship in the fields of internet, mobile business, etc.
Experts in the field help students to analyse and promote their entrepreneurial ideas and models for electronic businesses, along with new digital products/services. Another aim of the competition is to generate a collaborative environment for the development of innovative digital enterprises.
About SockSeed:
The number of entrepreneurs and start-ups is increasing worldwide every day, yet many of them fail for various reasons; lack of idea development, concept validation and wrong approaches as business solutions. In such cases, a business doesn’t have a strong idea foundation, increasing its chances of failure. Moreover, many individuals with inspiring business ideas don’t know how and where to begin. This frustration and inability is shared by many people that want to start a small business, yet fail because of a lack of research and/or insufficient idea development.
This is where SockSeed comes in, providing an online solution for idea development and market validation through systematic, concentrated and interactive ways in which to assist the users realise their ultimate business idea.
SockSeed will follow users and their business ideas by using advanced machine learning methods, and will help them to access the latest data regarding their ideas and the market around it. Through this process, individuals and companies can increase their success rates as regards their team, idea, product development and market validation.