{"id":1546,"date":"2019-12-04T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nus.edu.sg\/grip\/?page_id=1546"},"modified":"2024-11-11T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:25:31","slug":"commercial-champions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/partners\/commercial-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1546\" class=\"elementor elementor-1546\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-51edac8 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-height-default 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h1 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Commercial Champions<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9ff7585 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9ff7585\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8590672\" data-id=\"8590672\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>About NUS Enterprise and GRIP Programme<\/strong><\/p><p>From providing all the knowledge and skill sets necessary to create their own start-ups, providing the industry linkages to real world problems, to providing the mentorship, funding and other support necessary to take the start-up off the ground. GRIP (Graduate Research Innovation Programme) is a comprehensive step-by-step guidance programme to enable alumni, students, researchers, and professors from National University of Singapore (NUS) to transform research into deep-tech start-ups.<\/p><p>NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of NUS, plays a pivotal role in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond. It actively promotes entrepreneurship and cultivates global mind-sets and talents through the synergies of experiential entrepreneurial education, active industry partnerships, holistic entrepreneurship support and catalytic entrepreneurship outreach.<\/p><p><strong>Commercial Champions (CC) <\/strong><\/p><p>Commercial Champions (CC) are individuals with extensive technology commercialisation experience. They are experienced business advisors attached to GRIP projects. Their role is to lead and guide the Project Innovators to:<\/p><ul><li>Validate the opportunity of their business idea<\/li><li>Develop a convincing initial business case\/plan to secure the first tranche of GRIP investment funding<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Roles and responsibilities<\/strong><\/p><p>A GRIP-CC is a conduit to the industry. They connect the Project teams to key stakeholders who can help to<\/p><ul><li>Share market insight, challenges and validate the opportunities<\/li><li>Provide solutions or connect to partners who can help to solve various technology commercialisation needs to materialise a business idea.<\/li><li>Instil business thinking<\/li><li>Guide the project team to look for information required by the project through primary and secondary research<\/li><li>Help the team to distill insights into convincing business model, go to market strategy and eventually a business plan.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p><p>A GRIP-CC is a part-time role for individuals who are interested in:<\/p><ul><li>nurturing the younger generation of business leaders;<\/li><li>looking for new business or investment opportunities.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Typical profile of a GRIP-CC includes:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Retired or semi-retired c-level executives;<\/li><li>Angels or serial entrepreneurs;<\/li><li>Business consultants;<\/li><li>Partners of venture capital firms;<\/li><li>Individuals from big corporations;<\/li><li>and Other experienced individuals.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8eb42d4 elementor-mobile-align-center elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"8eb42d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/3r5sZcv0j8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon elementor-align-icon-right\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Join us as a GRIP Commercial Champion<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b484bd4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b484bd4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7c01e45\" data-id=\"7c01e45\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fe0bfa elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"1fe0bfa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial Champions Driving commercial success About NUS Enterprise and GRIP Programme From providing all the knowledge and skill sets necessary to create their own start-ups, providing the industry linkages to real world problems, to providing the mentorship, funding and other support necessary to take the start-up off the ground. GRIP (Graduate Research Innovation Programme) is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/partners\/commercial-champions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commercial Champions<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6790,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546\/revisions\/6790"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/grip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}