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NUS Entrepreneurship Centre

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, visit us at: http://www.nus.edu.sg/nec

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