Turning thoughts into business

Getting a quality education is the first step towards having a dream of what one’s future might look like! Parents always spare no effort to enroll their children at good schools that provide best learning environment. They strive to ensure their children have a better education so they get a respectful job. Most parents, if not all, are concerned about their children’s future which they wish to be far better than what they had.

In most cases, good education is linked to a decent life to people. That’s why every student leaves no stone unturned to get the most of his or her study and score high grades as much as possible.

Usually outstanding students get the best jobs. They are the most wanted candidates.

Other credits that could promote the excellence and skills of those students are their projects. Perhaps their graduation projects are of importance or interest to some concerned government or private bodies in the country. In fact, some of these projects are really insightful and bring remarkable ideas that could be turned into real businesses. Hence, students owning such kinds of projects are sought-after and would be of high demand of course.

In return, there are some concerned and proactive organisations that are very keen to support graduates and get their projects turned into a real business. Not only private entities, but various government authorities as well shoulder the responsibility of adopting students’ projects. Sometimes private and public sectors join forces to back student.

It is undoubtedly very thrilling to see private and public bodies take charge to support students and youth in different walks of life. Probably, they are supported financially to get their projects completed. However, what is next? Is there any government or private body interested in getting some of those useful projects and creative ideas turned into real business?

There are many unique projects of graduates from different higher educational institutions for which so much of money and time were spent. Often there are no further investment to capitalise on the project to bring a business or at least selling the concept to a corporate.

Otherwise, those students could be given the opportunity to work on their projects over some time spent in a proper incubation, monitoring and mentoring perhaps. During this period of incubation, students or graduates could be provided with financial, technical and consultative support to execute their projects.

Such an incubation process brings the opportunity to graduates to put their research and projects, which they have worked on over their years of study into action. They make a real business out of these researches that could be a source of income to them someday. However, only constructive and innovative projects and ideas could compete to get real support until the ideas come true.

During COMEX and Ghedex exhibitions, a number of excellent projects and startup companies were presented by school and high educational institutions students. Some of which are business-oriented like cafés, gift shops, software and IT applications developers. Those should be accorded great support to establish a business or a start-up out of their projects. This reflects a real investment in youths' insights, skills and abilities as well as paving their ways towards a brighter future.