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Nicholas OOI (Nick) is currently the Innovation Lead @ TriAngle at the Centre for Innovative Service-Learning, who promotes the concept of Social Innovation and cultivates innovation culture and spirit at Hong Kong Baptist University. TriAngle is a Social Innovation co-working space for social innovators and entrepreneurs for social good at HKBU to gather, network and make an impact through creativity, interactivity and collaborations.
He was a Programme Manager of the Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative (LEI) at Lingnan University in 2021. Since 2017, LEI has reached more than 20,000 beneficiaries and has organized more than 250 events related to innovation and entrepreneurship. Up till now, Nick and Together with his team from TriAngle and LEI, they have incubated more than 80 start-up and social enterprise teams (including ReCube, FlashGreen, SENmily, Rehome and continue more), to contribute to build the I&E eco-system for social good in the New Territories West. He was also the host of the Hong Kong Techathon from 2019 till 2022.
Nick is experienced in conducting Design Thinking workshops for students, and he has conducted more than 80 workshops with accumulations of more than 800 training hours. After joining the Teaching and Learning Studio at Stanford d.School and Participatory Design Training from MIT D-Lab, he begins to design different artifacts to improve students learning from different design methods. In 2020, Nick was invited to be one of the Faculty Innovation Fellows by the University Innovation Fellows Programme at Stanford d.School.