Global Technopreneurship Challenge
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The Global Technopreneurship Challenge is an international competition organised by The Technopreneurship Institute through which global challenges are addressed, including the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering for the 21st century [1][failed verification] and The Global Goals. Participants address the selected challenges through technology and entrepreneurship.[2] Each year, cities from all over the world bid to host the year's Global Technopreneurship Challenge.[citation needed]
The Global Technopreneurship Challenge is run in two stages, the preliminary stage and the finals. The preliminary stage is carried out online via a massive open online course on Open Learning where participants form teams and participate in online classes and activities. During this stage the participants acquire the knowledge necessary to conceive, design, implement and operate solutions that are technologically feasible, economically viable, desirable and environmentally sustainable. The teams with the best solutions will then be invited to the finals where they will be given a chance to pitch to academics, and industrial experts as well as investors.
The first challenge was held in Kuwait in 2015.