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6.8 Number of sustainability-related startups

Startup name: Kung Bang Ka Chao Green Space Conservation and Development Project

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Description: Kasetsart University has signed a cooperation agreement with the Forest Department and PTT to conserve and develop the green space of Kung Bang Ka Chao, comprising 6 subdistricts, namely Bang Ka Chao Subdistrict, Bang Nam Phueng Subdistrict, Bang Kho Bua Subdistrict, Bang Krasop Subdistrict, Bang Yo Subdistrict, and Song Khanong Subdistrict, Phra Pradaeng District, Samut Prakan Province, which aims to increase green space and habitat for many animals, as well as create plots to create income-generating forests, grow fruit trees and economic trees such as mango flower juice, mangosteen, ginger, khan, herbs that can be used as a model, tree planting for economic benefits, and can be applied in the daily life of the community in the area.

Kasetsart University has joined forces with Bang Ka Chao community to make the area an eco-tourism and environmentally conservative site, a farmland that is home to the park and Si Nakhon Khuean Khan Park, with an area of about 200 rai, and the Thai Betta Museum allows individuals to experience the lifestyle, culture, traditions, and nature, driving environmentally friendly tourism and promoting a better quality of life for the people in the community. In addition, Kasetsart University has given its personnel and students  to apply knowledge and innovations to develop and promote the distribution of local produce and can be used as their own professions to generate sustainable income. Activities carried out by the university include: 

  • Development of balsam products and massage oils from local medicinal plants in Bang Ka Chao community for sustainable self-development. 
  • Promotion of food products unique to the commercial community at Bang Ka Chao 
  • Study of the process of restoring the wisdom of coconut sugar production in Bang Ka Chao community, Phra Pradaeng District, Samut Prakan Province

Laem Phak Bia Environmental Research and Development Project, Ban Laem, Phetchaburi Province:

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Description: Kasetsart University, in collaboration with Chai Pattana Foundation, RDPB Office, and Irrigation Department, studied environmental solutions related to solid waste and wastewater in the community, which affects the preservation of mangrove forest conditions through natural and natural methods. It operates in public interest areas at Laem Phak Bia Subdistrict, Ban Laem District, Phetchaburi Province, with an area of approximately 642 rai. The goal is to develop it as a venue for meeting meetings, seminars, and lectures on the project’s environmental development operations, as a model area for transferring knowledge on waste disposal and wastewater treatment by natural-aided nature methods in accordance with the Royal Charter for dissemination to interested citizens both domestically and internationally. This creates jobs and income for the community as well.

Startup name: Business Brotherhood Project

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Description: The Business Brotherhood 2022 Project is a collaborative project between the Office of the Secretary of the Science Parks Promotion Committee, the Office of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Kasetsart University and three companies, Uppercuz Creative Co., Ltd., Richie Confectionery Co., Ltd., and Witsawa Corporation Co., Ltd., aim to develop 3 student entrepreneurs who are all food and agribusiness entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs who are considered for the potential development process include:

Entrepreneurs being considered for potential development

Pitching activities (Business Brotherhood)

 Meeting organized to clarify the operational guidelines (Business Brotherhood)

coaching activities organized with experts (Business Brotherhood)

Startup name: The Promotion Project to the Potential of Student Entrepreneurs to Create a Startup Business : KU Student Startup (KU-SS)

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Description: Kasetsart University Business Incubator Center (KUBIC)  plans to carry out activities to promote the potential of entrepreneurs and wishes to prepare students to become entrepreneurs of start-ups with high quality and a chance to succeed in the future. Therefore, ‘The Promotion Project to the Potential of Student Entrepreneurs to Create a Startup Business: KU Student Startup (KU-SS)’ was organized to enhance skills and practical experience in the process of becoming a new entrepreneur based on the concept of startup, cultivate entrepreneurial consciousness, transfer ideas and knowledge of entrepreneurship to students for use in their careers or establish businesses in the future. There were 116 players divided into 28 teams. Students will participate in 6 workshops by mentors and speakers, namely: 1) Design Thinking 2) BusinessModel Canvas 3) Customer Journey & Business Tools 4) Product & Market fit 5) Pitching deck and Pitching Tips and conduct pitching ideas competitions as an online competition through a zoom meeting program. It is organized by Business Incubator Center(KUBIC), Business Development, Office of Academic Services, Kasetsart University, for the committee to select only 7 teams. Each team will receive expert mentoring and mentorship in developing the potential of each student entrepreneur to drive and select the best 7 student entrepreneurs representing Kasetsart University to participate in the national pitching competition under the Startup Thailand League 2022 program of the National Innovation Agency (Public Organization) or NIA.

Startup name: Incubation Project under Kasetsart University Business Incubator Center (KUBIC) 

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Description: A project under the Kasetsart University Business Incubator Center (KUBIC) has created and nurtured new entrepreneurs to become entrepreneurs who can conduct business on their own strongly. It focuses on creating entrepreneurs who have adopted technology or research and intellectual property of the university to further develop through the process of adding value in the product until different products can be commercialized by working through the Kasetsart University Business Incubator Center (KUBIC). It provides incubation to students who want to become entrepreneurs and individuals or professors who are interested in knowledge or innovative research of Kasetsart University for commercialization by business incubator Kasetsart University, providing educational training services, coordinating experts to provide technical and business advice, start-up office space and utilities, as well as providing equipment, tools, prototype factories for testing, experimenting with products developed by entrepreneurs. There are also specialization centers that will support incubation activities in product development.

University Business Incubator Project  for Fiscal Year 2022

Coaching Activities

 Performance Report by Entrepreneurs and Consideration of Entrepreneurs for University Business Incubator (UBI) Project

 Farmers’ Workshop 2022

C-UBI Working Group Meeting

Entrepreneurs’ Participation in Product Exhibition at BCG Startup Investment Day

Meeting to clarify operational guidelines and budget spending recommendations (Business Brotherhood)

“Train The Trainer Workshop in 2022”

Meeting between entrepreneurs and online marketing consultants

Provides instructions on filling out financial formulas for entrepreneurs.

Financial Accounting and Reporting Training Use Microsoft Excel for Entrepreneurs and UBI to enhance accounting knowledge for agents and entrepreneurs

Meeting to prepare for the event. UBI Innovation Pitching Day, a capacity development activity, increases entrepreneurial confidence in the University Business Incubator  (UBI)

The operator reports the performance to the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee.

KUBIC  organized entrepreneurship preparation projects under the name ‘KUnicorn Hunt for Green Unicorns’ to educate students about business and inspire entrepreneurship

Lecture on Building a Startup of Kasetsart University Business Incubator Center (KUBIC)

Startup name: Startup Thailand League Project 

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Description: The Startup Thailand League is a collaborative project between the National Innovation Agency (Public Organization), the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, and Kasetsart University to promote and support students and staff at participating universities to develop a business plan to be able to develop themselves as startups in order to further the concept of doing business. It helps drive the creation of businesses that are strong, viable, able to grow quickly, and to develop capacity and build capacity of student entrepreneurs, students and staff at the university, such as marketing, technology, legal, financial and management through entrepreneurship under the mentoring system. It has conducted pitching ideas competitions for prize money, 10 teams have participated in the expert coaching activities to participate in the PITCHING STARTUP THAILAND LEAGUE 2022 regional finals. Five teams were sent by Kasetsart University  to participate in the competition and chosen.   

NOVA is an approved team to develop product prototypes displayed at DEMO DAY

Approved team to develop product prototypes displayed at DEMO DAY

PITCHING STARTUP THAILAND LEAGUE 2022

Exhibited at DEMO DAY 2022)

Startup name: Young Entrepreneur Incubation Center-YIC  

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Description: The Faculty of Arts and Management Sciences, Kasetsart University has launched the Young Entrepreneur Incubation Center (YIC) project, the objective of which is to train students for skills and prepare students to become entrepreneurs to apply their experiences after graduation. Students will learn the process of business design, launching a business product or service to the public, and perform tasks such as organization, production planning, sales, customer hospitality, inventory management, purchasing, store advertising, and other related activities through the primary supervision of young entrepreneurs and the young entrepreneurship incubator committee.

Startup name: Workforce Skills Development Program to Become a New Generation of Rice Agricultural Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age

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Description: Faculty of Natural Resources and Agro-Industry,  Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kasetsart University Chalermphrakiat Sakon Nakhon Province Campus organized a project to develop labor skills towards becoming a new generation of rice agricultural entrepreneurs, with a ‘lifelong learning’ activity with farmers Ban Nong Hoi, Ban Non Sala, Ban Nong Sanom, Ban Khok Sa-at, Ban Phon Sawang, Ban Na Kham Hai, and Ban Non Ben presenting their work. It is a way to reduce inequality in Thai society of Sakon Nakhon-Nakhon Phanom Province. The project aims to develop the skills of aspiring entrepreneurs to improve the quality of life through community innovation. Workforce Skills Development Program to Become a New Generation of Agricultural Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age, Kasetsart University Career Development Agency (SAKOL), with support from the Fund for Educational Equality. The project’s goal is to include disadvantaged groups in the community with at least 10 percent more jobs and incomes. The project selected target groups of organic rice producers in Chiang Khong Subdistrict, Muang District, Sakon Nakhon Province, where disadvantaged persons such as the unemployed and informal workers of 50 participated in the knowledge transfer process to develop additional occupations related to rice, which is the basis of important local and national resources. The technology transfer consists of four courses: low-cost organic rice production courses, rice processing courses, online marketing courses, and sufficiency economy lifestyle courses. Once the knowledge has been transferred, the label group will be monitored and consulted by experts to be able to produce and sell products that generate income for the family, as well as establish a group management system so that the label group can produce products for both online and offline markets. In addition to the products transferred knowledge from the project, the project also provides advice and support for products that the community already has to develop to be available for sale in the online market. The results showed that more than 80 percent of post-season jobs were created for the target audience and the average income increased by more than 19 percent.

Startup name: Training and promotion of entrepreneurial careers for people in Thung Sukhla subdistrict, Sriracha district, Chonburi Province

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Description: Kasetsart University trains and promotes careers for people in Thung Sukhla subdistrict, Sriracha district, Chonburi province to encourage people in Thung Sukhla subdistrict to have knowledge and skills to pursue a career as an entrepreneur and earn income. In addition, to promote the operation of existing professional groups in the community, have the ability to produce products effectively, and improve the quality of products.

Seafood processing courses ‘Shrimp Meatballs and Plum Sauce’, ‘Shrimp Potatoes’ and ‘Japanese Soy Sauce Shrimp Chin’

Agricultural produce processing courses ‘Pasteurized Karonda Water,’ ‘Karonda Jam,’ ‘Mango Compote,’ ‘Pickled Lemon,’ ‘Machine-shaped Shepherd’, and ‘Guava Soaked Plum’.

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Description: Kasetsart University promotes life skills learning and development of career skills Titled Candle pump cloth for Ban Aow Udom Community Enterprises to increase knowledge and promote career creation for Ban Aow Udom Community Enterprises Group, and to create expertise for people to use as careers, to increase income for themselves and their families.

Startup name: Course ‘Increasing the value of community products with packaging’ and ‘Starting online marketing with Facebook Marketing’

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Description: Kasetsart University organizes courses ‘Increasing the value of community products with packaging’ and ‘Starting online marketing with Facebook Marketing’ to enhance the skills and expertise of people in Laem Chabang municipality to become professionals. It can be used as a career to increase income for themselves and their families.

In addition, the course allows participants to know and understand about marketing, gain knowledge and understanding of product development to suit the needs of each group of customers, know the importance of packaging to the product itself, learn how to create a Facebook page and be able to further their careers, and realize the advantages and disadvantages of online marketing and be able to apply it to the current changing situation. 

Startup name: Post-COVID Economic and Social Mobility Project with BCG Economy (U2T for BCG)

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Description : The ‘Post-COVID Economic and Social Mobility Project with the BCG Economy (U2T for BCG)’ aims to 1) increase the potential and competitiveness of the local BCG manufacturing and services sectors with knowledge, technology and innovation, 2) increase the employment of graduates and local residents, 3) develop the workforce to have the basic skills needed to work today and skills related to the BCG economy, and 4) to develop a complete Thailand Community Big Data (TCD) database covering all areas of the country.

Kasetsart University researchers have been responsible for 15 subdistricts (15 projects), comprising Bang Chan Subdistrict, Sai Kong Din Tai Subdistrict, Sam Wa Tawan Ok Subdistrict, Sam Wa Tawan Tok Subdistrict, Khan Na Yao Subdistrict, Ram Inthra Subdistrict, Khlong Kum Subdistrict, Nuan Chan Subdistrict, Chorakhe Bua Subdistrict, Khanong Phra Subdistrict, Sa Ko Subdistrict, Ladprao Subdistrict, Khlong Tan Nuea Subdistrict, Khlong Toei Nuea Subdistrict, and Phra Khanong Nuea Subdistrict. The operation is to develop capacity for people in the context of each area in order to create sustainable jobs and incomes for the community.

Startup name: A course to increase income for the community by raising chickens and processing chicken products.

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Description: This course was developed to provide community enterprises, poultry farmers and citizens with theoretical and practical training on how to feed striped flies with organic waste in the community to reduce the cost of purchasing chicken feed, the emergence of community-based worm farming, the emergence of learning resources for raising striped flies for animal feed, knowledge transfer, and income increase.

Promoting the cultivation of striped fly worms is innovative in solving the problem of raising chickens as follows: 

  1. Innovation in raising high-protein striped fly worms and using striped fly worms as food for chickens, reducing the cost of purchasing chicken feed such as laying hens, folk chickens, etc. 
  2. Innovative organic waste management committee in households with striped fly worms

Startup name: Promote careers in the community sustainably by educating OTOP product registration

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Description: Kasetsart University transfers knowledge both theory and practice, promotes careers in the community sustainably, educates the registration of OTOP products for sale and generates income under the operation of community enterprises in herbal fields through online and onsite distribution channels, develops courses on the processing of herbal products, provides training in herbal products as follows: 

  1. Health care with household herbs 
  2. Processing of herbs in beverage, cosmeceutical and registered OTOP products, the group has been integrated into the development of herbal products such as herbal shampoos and herbal teas.
  3. A group has been formed to process the Andrographis paniculata capsules for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has innovations in solving medicinal problems as follows:

  1. Innovative herbal value-added with steam distillation 
  2. There is a process of developing the process of processing herbal raw materials in the form of beverages and cosmetics. 
  3. There is a process of health care with household herbs.

Startup name: Support cashew products from Mr.Mongkol Pinpat from the brand ‘Phan Man Ploen’

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Description: Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Sriracha Campus, support cashew products from The Garden of Mr.Mongkol Pinpat from the brand ‘Phan Man Ploen’ to develop additional products and can be processed into a variety of other products, which promotes the environment and increases the income flow for the community by developing additional products including 1. Starchless cookies, cashews and grains cookies 2. Caramel coated cashews are a career development and generate increased income.

Startup name: Training project for making wicker and textiles in the community and promoting distribution channels

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Description: Kasetsart University organizes workshops for making wicker and textiles in the community and promotes sales channels to create jobs and generate income for the community. Local groups are increasingly interested in dyeing reeds and hammering with natural colors and also as a way to add value to products derived from natural dyeing.

Startup name: Project ‘Selection of products under the support of Kasetsart University into the modern trade market’

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Description: Kasetsart University Kamphaengsaen Campus in collaboration with Vintage Farm D Co., Ltd. organized the selection of community products into the Modern Trade market under the project ‘Selection of products under the support of Kasetsart University into the Modern Trade Market No.1’ by educating on the development of community products and selecting products into the modern trade market this time. It attracted the attention of farmers, community enterprises, and people in the neighborhood.

Startup name: Develop fresh spring roll recipes and add patterns to make the dessert unique.

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Description: Kasetsart University Kamphaengsaen Campus in Naraphirom Subdistrict, Bang Len District, Nakhon Pathom Province developed fresh spring roll recipes and added a unique pattern to the dessert, as well as creating an online marketing channel by creating a Facebook Page to promote products to groups who like to eat fresh, clean, tasty, non-preservative spring rolls, and suitable for health-conscious groups.

Startup name: Workshops ‘Pa Tong Go, Tofu, Soybean Milk, Ginger Juice, Bua Loi Black Sesame’ and ‘Ribbon Embroidered Krajud Bag’

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Description: Kasetsart University provides training and career promotion for people in Laem Chabang Municipality, Sriracha District, Chonburi Province, to increase career skills to be able to generate income for people to enable people to gain knowledge and increase their skills in their careers

Workshop ‘Pa Tong Go, Tofu, Soybean Milk, Ginger Juice, Bua Loi Black Sesame

Workshop ‘Ribbon-embroidered Bag’

Startup name: ‘Pickled Fish Paste’

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Description: Kasetsart University organizes an integrated training on making Ban Don Tan Ngo grilled fish paste and expanded the processing of smoked grilled fish into a new product, ‘Pickled Fish Paste’, to generate income for the community.

Startup name: Indigo products with patterns designed by Choeng Chum Subdistrict

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Description:  Faculty of Science and Engineering Kasetsart University adopts plaid indigo products designed by Choeng Chum subdistrict to register community product standards, which are quality requirements that are suitable for community products to be trusted, accepted and reassure consumers to shop for products, with a focus on sustainable development, to raise the quality of community products to meet the specified standards.

Startup name: Project to develop tilapia production capacity in coops using advanced immunotherapy technology to alleviate disease problems in the Upper Mekong Isaan area.

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Description: The National Resource and Agro-Industrial Resources And Industry has developed an effective vaccine based on the Strep-KU1 prototype vaccine to reduce the problem of streptococcosis, a pathogen that causes fish death in the entire coop, affecting the cost of farming for farmers in the Upper Northeast, providing academic knowledge on feeding, vaccination, data logging, etc., monitoring water quality records, fish weight, and fish disease monitoring.  The company has developed 3 products of aquatic processing products: 1) ready-to-eat fried tilapia, 2) seasoned fish snack, and 3) fish kunchiang and transfer knowledge and skills in tilapia processing to add value to farmers, and use online media to market through 3 online sales platforms namely Facebook, Line, and shopee. Farmers who raise tilapia in the coop can reduce the problem of disease. Farmers are produced by raising vaccinated fish, being able to develop their careers, reducing expenditures and from a 95 percent increase in survival rates, resulting in an increase in incomes of about 15 percent and the participating farmers are able to expand and expand to other farmers in the area.

Startup name: Jasmine rice product processing innovation project

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Description: The Faculty of National Resources and Agro-Industry has developed and expanded jasmine rice products of 3 community enterprises in Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, and Mukdahan provinces, has prototyped 3 products and packaging from jasmine rice, requested nutrition labels and requested a food directory number (No. FDA), and transferred the knowledge of each jasmine rice product to community enterprises as follows: 

  1. Transfer knowledge of processing gluten-free instant brownie flour products from jasmine rice to The Hang Sprout Rice Community Enterprises, Ban Noi Chom Si, Muang, Sakon Nakhon Province.
  2. Transfer knowledge of processing of ready-made rice powder beverage products with kale powder to community enterprises processing agricultural produce in Ban Huai Hai, Phon Sawan District, Nakhon Phanom Province
  3. Transfer the knowledge of processing knowledge of 4 flavors of low-sodium semi-finished germinated brown rice porridge products to the community enterprises of Hang Sprouted Rice, Mukda, Dong Luang District, Mukdahan Province.

The development of jasmine rice products and packaging has resulted in a new product with a strong focus on healthy food and packaging that appeals to consumers, which will contribute value to jasmine rice and promote rice cultivation as the main occupation of farmers in the Northeast.

Startup name: Professional cultivation of straw mushrooms 

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Description: Kasetsart University organizes activities to provide knowledge and skills in the cultivation of straw mushrooms by choosing the method of cultivation according to the material and cost they have. The trainees will see the process from the beginning of the preparation of the greenhouses to the mixing of raw materials, cutting, mushroom picking, etc., as well as knowing how to eliminate germs in the greenhouses. Participants can use their knowledge to experiment in households, build careers and generate income for themselves and their families or community groups.

Startup name: ‘Tie-dye fabric’ for children, youth and the general public

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Description: Kasetsart University organizes activities to promote the learning of life skills and vocational development skills for children, youth, and people in Laem Chabang Municipality to develop children, youth and citizens to have knowledge, skills, and lifestyle in occupations, to practice the work skills of children, youth, and citizens, and to promote and support job creation for children, youth, and citizens to have additional careers for themselves and their families.