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TOWARDS YOUR CAREER ASPIRATIONS
UMP 大學廣場
APR 2013
Over the years, HKSEC has matured drastically in both
magnitude and quality. It attracts highly ambitious,
passionate participants and welcomes anyone who
harbors an entrepreneurial spirit, with a drive to make
social changes with a simple idea. "Students don't end
their journey here," Professor Au said. "HKSEC picks
students up at an idea stage, coach them and brings
them to a point where they have their plan sorted out and
have testing customers. But then they need to expand by
themselves. For this, they need more money and more
assistance. HKSEC shows them the ways to scale up and
use resources wisely in order to get bigger and make a
larger impact."
Inspiration Beyond an Entrepreneurial Career
Students who do not plan to pursue an entrepreneurial
career can also benefit from this programme since it gives
them more insights on how an entrepreneur thinks, what
an enterprise is and how an enterprise functions. This
knowledge will eventually help them to advance in their
future career.
HKSEC allows students to grasp that big organizations are
not the only career option that prevails in today's world.
They have alternatives. “Students may originally think there
are only the government and profit-making corporations
(businesses) in the world. But now they realize that there
are also other types of organizations - social organizations
can provide an alternative career prospect."
On a concluding note, Professor Au encouraged that,
"People and students
of this generation can
have very diverse career
options. You can work not
only for large corporations,
you also have choices
to work for start-ups and
small firms. Making a lot
of money shall not be
the only objective. There
are a lot of interesting
things you can do for your
career."
A HKSEC participant - a start up
social enterprise that produces
watches out of coke cans.
廚餘 創未來 –
實踐社企創業夢
學生記者：吳欣鍵
不少大學生畢業後會選擇投身商界，但中大工商
管理學士（綜合）畢業生鄭營啟（Jack）選擇了
一條與別不同的道路。他投身了社會企業（即企業以
所得利潤主要用作再投資於本身業務，以達到既定的
社會目的的行業），更創辦了回收廚餘和相關環保教
育的社會企業。以下Jack會與同學們分享創業路上的
一點一滴。
初見商機 確立目標
在2008年，仍在中大就讀的Jack與一位環境科學系
的朋友傾談，覺得廚餘是一個嚴峻迫切的問題，於是
萌生了以社企模式解決廚餘問題的創業念頭。為了豐
富自己在該方面的知識，他積極搜集相關資料。Jack
為尋找機會進一步實踐理想，參加了由香港中文大學
創業研究中心舉辦的香港社會企業挑戰賽。勝出比
賽後的獎金便成為了Jack創業的第一筆資金。此後
Jack亦參加了香港社企投資論壇及中國大學生創業計
劃競賽，憑著出色的表現獲獎，贏得多個獎項，成功
踏出創業的第一步。
除了資金外，相關技術對於Jack創辦的廚餘回收社會
企業亦不可或缺。勝出香港社會企業挑戰賽後，Jack
和拍檔前往台灣取經。他們曾到中興大學請教該校教
授，學習處理廚餘的技術，將有機廢棄物轉化為肥
料。此外，商業運作亦是創業的重要關鍵。為了瞭解
由廚餘轉化的肥料在香港的市場潛力，Jack亦親身到
各有機農場與具潛力的銷售對象交流。
以毅取勝 實踐理想
在創業路上，Jack獲得不少扶持。中大創業研究中心
於比賽後繼續提供不少協助，為Jack介紹了工程學
院的教授，令Jack不但能夠獲得專業的技術意見，