Welcome to the inaugural e-Newsletter of
NUS Centre for Entrepreneurship! I hope this would provide
a more effective means for us to keep in touch with you
regarding the activities and programs of our centre, and
to solicit your feeedback and suggestion. You are receiving
this because of your prior participation in one of our
earlier events or activities. If you wish not to receive
any further e-Newsletter and event updates from us in
the future, please kindly send a note to cetbox2@nus.edu.sg,
we will make sure that you will not be disturbed further.
Thank you and best regards,
Assoc Prof Wong Poh Kam, Director
Ms Gean Chu, Admins. Officer
On 14 November 2002 (Thursday),
NUS Centre for Entrepreneurship (CET) is holding a Special
Seminar cum Press Release
on our research findings for the "Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor (GEM) 2002 Project: Benchmarking of Entrepreneurial
Development in Singapore" at the National University
of Singapore, Lecture Theatre 31 (LT 31) of Science Faculty
from 8.30am to 11.00am.
You are most welcomed to join us for this big event and
do register with us now via email to cetsoosk@nus.edu.sg
by providing the following information. Closing
date for registration is extended to 13 Nov 2002. Admission
is FREE.
Kindly provide us with the following information when
registering via email to us:
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On 29 November 2002 (Friday),
CET will be holding 2 events.
** To
start the day, we are holding a half-day Research Seminar
on "Technology Entrepreneurship" from 9.00am
- 12.30pm
at Conference Room A (CRA), Level 4, NUS Business School
(BIZ1). We are pleased to have Prof. Sankaran
Venkataraman from the Darden Business School, University
of Virginia to be one of our speakers as well as Dr. Foo
Maw
Der from NUS Business School and Ms Zhang Jing (doctoral
student) to share their latest research insights on Technology
Entrepreneurship.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend
this talk and please register for the talk via e-mail
to
cetsoosk@nus.edu.sg
with the following information, by 26 November
2002. Admission is FREE & we look forward
to
seeing you at the seminar.
Kindly provide us with the following information when
registering via email to us:
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Name:
Designation:
Company/Institution:
Email:
Tel:
** Later
in the evening, our centre is holding the 4th Annual Start-Up@Singapore
Kick-Off Event at Hon Sui Sen Auditorium
from 5.00pm to 8.00pm. So why wait? Come on down and join
in the fun with us!!!
Please register with us online via this website: http://www.startup.org.sg
or via email to cettal@nus.edu.sg.
Closing date for registration is 26 November
2002 and Admission is FREE.
What is Start-Up@Singapore?
Start-Up@Singapore is a national business
plan competition and forum organised by the National University
of
Singapore-Centre for Entrepreneurship (CET) and Business
School Alumni Association. Firstly launched in 1999, the
Start-Up@Singapore competition and forum is now into its
4th year and to start the ball rolling for this year 2002,
we will
have a kick-off event on 29 November 2002 with a series
of talks from prominent speakers and entrepreneurs as
well as
presentation and networking dinner. Please visit www.startup.org.sg
for more information.
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The month of October has been an eventful one for CET
as we successfully organized several events:
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Executive Training Program
A joint NUS-CET - WIPO Training Program on "For Asia
and the Pacific on the Use of the Intellectual Property
System
for Enhancing Enterprise Competitiveness and Growth"
from 14 to 22 October at The M Hotel in Singapore. The
training
program was sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Government of the Republic of Singapore and World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Participants
include 22 senior policy makers from 21 developing countries.
>>
Entrepreneurship Research Seminar
*
A half-day Seminar on "University Technology Commercialization
and Spin-offs" on 31 October featuring a
presentation by Prof. Scott Shane (Chair of the Department
of Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. School of Business
at the University of Maryland) on "Universities and
High Technology Entrepreneurship" and Assoc. Prof.
Wong Poh
Kam, Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship, NUS on "Technology
Commercialization and Spin-offs: A Comparative
study of Leading Asian vs. North American Universities".
*
Prof. Scott Shane, Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship
at the Robert H. School of Business at the
University of Maryland and also a visiting professor at
CET gave a talk on "Does Business Planning Facilitate
the
Development of New Ventures?" on 29 October.
*
A Research Seminar jointly organized by CET and the Department
of Decision Sciences, NUS Business School on
9 October, featuring a talk by Assistant Professor David
Hsu from the Entrepreneurial Management Group of
the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
on "What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital
Affiliation?"
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Techno-Venture Forum
*
Techno-Venture Forum on "Making Merger and Acquisition
work: A case Study of ECS Holdings" by Mr. Ng Hock
Ching, Co-founder of Natsteel Electronics and ECS Holdings
and also an Adjunct Associate Professor of CET, NUS
on 16 October.
*
Techno-Venture Forum on "Growth Strategies for High
Tech Startups in Asia" by Mr. Joshua Koh, Chairman
and Co-
founder of Transcend eBusiness Pte Ltd on 9 October.
Besides the events above, our centre also hosted a visit
by senior Science and Technology policy makers from the
National Institute for Science and Tech Policy (NISPASS),
Vietnam on 28 October, who were interested in learning
more about the Entrepreneurship and innovation management
research program at CET.
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The Minor in Technopreneurship Programme for Undergraduate
Students is once again offered in Semester 2, Academic
Year
2002/2003, i.e. Jan 2003. Students who are interested
may begin to apply for the Minor in Technopreneurship.
Completed application form must be submitted to our
Centre by 2 Dec 2002, 4.30pm.
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CET Website
Please visit our website @ http://www.nus.edu.sg/nec/index.html
for more information about our recent activities as well
as
latest events.
Feedback & Suggestions
Any feedback, suggestions and contributions to CET e-Newsletter
are most welcomed.
Please send them to us at cetbox2@nus.edu.sg.
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