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Overview

Nanyang Technopreneurship Center’s vision is to be one of the world’s most influential institutional authorities for education in entrepreneurship and technology innovation. It is currently the Asia Pacific’s Leading Center of Excellence for Entrepreneurship Education.

Nanyang Technopreneurship Center was established in January 2001, as a multidisciplinary university level centre, through the sponsorship of Nanyang Technological University and Economic Development Board.

NTC’s mission is to foster, promote and nurture a culture of innovation and technopreneurship through entrepreneurship education. It is strongly committed to the development of technology entrepreneurship within the University and the region, in order to create new business ventures that will provide new engines of growth for Singapore.

The centre’s three-tier vision is:

• To be a major partner in the nation’s effort to promote and develop a technopreneurial environment leading to a vibrant and thriving sector of high growth technology-oriented companies.
• To provide students with the best innovation and entrepreneurship education and environment and impart to them the necessary skills and knowledge to become successful 21st century entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs (corporate entrepreneurs).
• To make NTC the Centre of Competence in the Asia Pacific in the innovation and entrepreneurship education and industry-related applied research. To make NTC the best organisation and workplace in Asia Pacific for people who are deeply passionate about technopreneurship and innovation.

The fabric of NTC’s working culture is depicted in the illustration below:

Divisions

Appointment holders

Faculty members

Associate Professors

Tan Teng Kee, Ph.D. (Cambridge), Director, NTC

Raymond Ferris Abelin, Ph.D. (Colorado), Deputy Director, NTC

Assistant Professors

Vesa Jukka Kangaslahti, Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Visiting Professor from the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge

Charles H Turner, D.B.A. (Harvard Business School)

Visiting Professor from the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Michael Song, Ph.D. (University of Virginia)

Visiting Professors and Lecturers from the University of Washington

Andy Sack, M.B.A. (MIT)

Bill Tenneson, M.B.A. (University of Washington)

C. James Judson, LL.B. (Stanford Law School)

Howard Jay Chizeck, Sc.D. (MIT)

John R. Castle, PMD (Harvard Graduate School of Business)

Lee L. Huntsman, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)

Ona Anicello, B.Eng. (University of Washington)

Paul Budak, M.Sc. (University of Washington)

Professors

Cham Tao Soon, Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Lim Mong King, Ph.D. (University du Maine)

Associate Professors

David Butler, Ph.D. (University of Birmingham)

Cao Yong, Ph.D. (The Australian National University)

Chua Chee Kai, Ph.D. (Nanyang Technological University)

Kate Kangaslahti (University of Cambridge)

Leong Kah Fai, M.Sc. (Stanford University)

Tan Kok Hui, Ph.D. (Arizona State University)

Xie Ming, Ph.D. (University of Rennes)

Yeo Khim Teck, Ph.D. (University of Manchester)

Instructors

Anthony Teo, M.B.A. (Harvard Business School)

Chen Fuguo, Ph.D. (Beijing Normal University)

Caterine Sun, LL.M (George Washington University Law School)

Eugene Wong, Ph.D. (University of Honolulu)

Fred Cheng, M.B.A. (University of Pennsylvania)

Ho Kuen Loon, M.B.A. (Harvard Business School)

James Jin, M.B.A. (University of Pennsylvania)

Lee Kam Choon, M.Sc. (George Washington University)

Lee Kah Howe, M.Sc. TIP (NTU-UW)

Michael Lin, M.Sc. (National University of Singapore)

Ong Lay Khiam, M.Sc. (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Reto Calligari, Ph.D. (University of Zurich)

Tang Shiuh Huei, M.Sc. TIP (NTU-UW)

Toh See Kiat, Ph.D. (University of London)

Toh Thian Ser, M.B.A. (National University of Singapore)

Walter Lee, MBA (Golden Gato University, San Francisco)