Match Maker Space turns ideas into reality

To boost young people's entrepreneurship spirit and create more jobs for them, a new platform called Match Maker Space has been founded in Northeast China.

The maker space focuses on incubating ideas. It creates a talent-attracting program called "attracting talents to Northeast China" to gather talents, technologies and nationwide funds to build an ecological system for entrepreneurship in the area by combining local resources and advanced philosophy of Shenzhen, a city renowned for its entrepreneurship.

The maker space was founded in June this year and after mere four months it held its first entrepreneurship training camp.

Fifty students from Northeast Normal University took part and were trained by entrepreneur mentors from Shenzhen. Mentors helped them better their business model, shareholding structure and other factors of their startup projects.

A mentor is introducing the camp to the students.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

After learning for some time, they have widened their view and learnt more about the market.

With the resources provided by the platform such as information services, financing, project tracking and road show practice, the students will have more opportunities. Some of the projects seem extremely promising.

The camp is the first step of the talent-attracting program of maker space. It will hold more learning programs by cooperating with other universities.