The University of Otago's School of Business has notched up home and away successes at two separate business case competitions during the weekend - in Dunedin and in Canada.
In a four-day event, which concluded on Saturday at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, the Otago business case team won the Scotiabank 24th International Business Case Competition.
The winning Otago team, which is understood to be travelling home now, was Jordan van der Klei, Harry Cunningham, James Kuperus and Angus Adams. Dr John Guthrie was the university staff member involved.
In Dunedin, the business school's inaugural 54-hour entrepreneurial StartUp Weekend attracted 67 individuals from around the country, hosted by the School of Business.
StartUp Weekend organiser Mark Neild said the event - from 5pm on Friday to Sunday's prizegiving at 7.30pm - was an ''unparalleled success''.
There have been more than 400 StartUp Weekend events in more than 100 countries around the world to date, but this was Dunedin's first, Mr Neild said.
With 90 participants, including judges and sponsors, 67 individuals came together to pitch 25 initial concept ideas, before going on to form 10 teams. These went on to talk to potential customers and also produce their products, many of which included web designs.
The judges were Nick Laird, director of Dunedin-based Synario Ltd, chief executive of Dunedin's Upstart business incubator, Steve Silvey, chief executive of Myth, Hayden Breese, Greg Fahey, a director of Dunedin-based Kahu Technologies, and Alistair Regan, group manager of Art, Design and IT at the Otago Polytechnic.
