NUS Enterprise aims to provide entrepreneurship education and nurture talents with a global mindset; identify; protect and commercialise NUS intellectual property; nurture NUS spin-offs and start-ups; foster industrial collaboration; and facilitate the dissemination of NUS knowledge to the external community.

In essence, the Cluster strives to be a catalyst for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship within the NUS community, nurturing new and existing talent with teh ability to thrive in the fast-paced global business environment and translate NUS knowledge and expertise into value for the economy.

The units of the NUS Enterprise Cluster comprise the NUS Overseas Colleges, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, NUS Industry & Technology Relations Office, NUS Venture Support, NUS Consulting, NUS Extension and NUS Publishing.

For more information on NUS Enterprise, please visit http://www.nus.edu.sg/enterprise.

Acknowledged as one of the finest universities in the world, National University of Singapore (NUS) is a comprehensive university offering a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment.

NUS has 13 faculties, with an enrolment of more than 23,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students. The University actively promotes innovation and entrepreneurship.

NUS enjoys a close teaching-research nexus with 13 national-level, 12 university-level and more than 60 faculty-based research institutes and centres. The University is strongly committed to advancing knowledge and fostering innovation, educating students and nurturing talent in the service of country and society.

For more information on NUS, please visit http://www.nus.edu.sg.

NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC)

In line with the strategic vision of NUS to become a global knowledge enterprise, the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre has been established with the mission to nurture the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation among the NUS community through education and outreach activities, and to advance knowledge of technology venturing practice through research. A university level centre and a unit of NUS Enterprise , the centre integrates its three main functions -- entrepreneurship education, research and outreach -- in a synergistic manner to inject an entrepreneurial dimension to NUS education, to mentor technology spin-offs by NUS professors, researchers and students, and to provide entrepreneurial thought leadership to the venture community of Singapore and beyond.

The Centre has made various educational innovations over the years, including initiating a new MSc (Management of Technology) Program in 1992, launching a Technopreneurship Minor Program for NUS undergraduates in 1999, and expanding the program internationally to support students on high tech internships in NUS Overseas Colleges in 2002. Summer courses on technology entrepreneurship were also initiated to cater to overseas students, and technopreneurship workshops were introduced for working technical professionals. We also pioneered the first nation-wide business plan competition in Singapore (Start-Up@Singapore), and jointly organized with Stanford the first Global Entrepreneurs Challenge outside the US . We are now recognized as a leading research centre in Asia focusing on technology entrepreneurship and innovation management, with active research collaboration with leading entrepreneurship and innovation researchers worldwide.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.nus.edu.sg/nec.

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