Team:NCTU Formosa/Entrepreneurship

Overview

Entrepreneurship has traditionally been defined as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which typically begins as a small business, such as a startup company, offering a product, process or service for sale or hire.[1]

Today, our project, PANTIDE, has a complete idea and experience to prove its effect. First, we will introduce our business model, which includes three kinds of items, the problem, solution, and schedule, to explain why we want to choose this problem, how we solve them, and when we will launch our product. Second, we analysis the marketing and future to discuss about three items, insecticide using, organic agriculture, and technology agriculture. Next, we grasp the regulation about the manufacture and using in real world to get a certificate from government. The last but not least, we introduce the sponsors who help us in our difficult time and launch our product for others companies.

Business model

Tagline

Commingling of the technology and plants to lead the new agricultural revolution.

Problem

As we mention in our wiki, more and more people pay attention to the chemical pesticide influence our daily life. The trends of eating organic food is gradually increasing. However, the management cost and low yield are two major problems that cause the organic food expensive. There are two goals that we want to achieve:

  • To be precise agriculture
    The high management cost including human resource, time, and precise field monitor.
  • To reduce the using of chemical pesticide
    Chemical pesticide cause lots of problems:
    • Environment pollution

Figure 1. Visiting expert. group photo with the professor Huang and his postgraduate student in Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute Council of Agriculture. Dr. Huang is the fourth person on the third hand in the back row, and the senior brother is the third person on the left hand in the back row.

Figure 2. Discussion with Dr. Huang and his postgraduate student in Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute Council of Agriculture.

Figure 3. Group photo with Prof. Shaw-Yhi Hwang and the research assistant. They stand on the right side in the picture.

User Study—Visit the farmers

Business Study—Visit the proprietor