Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre
Overview
The Centre
was established in January 2001, as a multidisciplinary university-level
centre, through the sponsorship of
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
The centre's three-tier vision is:
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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.
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To provide students with the best innovation and entrepreneurship education and
environment and impart the necessary skills and knowledge for students to
become successful 21st century entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs (corporate
entrepreneurs).
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To make NTC the centre of competence in the Asia-Pacific region in innovation
and entrepreneurship education and industry-related applied research. To make
NTC the best organisation and workplace in the Asia-Pacific region for people
who are deeply passionate about technopreneurship and innovation.
The
fabric of NTC's working culture is depicted in the illustration below:
Appointment
holders
Faculty members
Associate Professors
Tan Teng Kee, Ph.D. (Cambridge), Director, NTC
Raymond Ferris Abelin, Ph.D. (Colorado), Deputy Director, NTC
Adjunct Associate Professor
Seet Lip Chai, M.D. (National University of Singapore)
Toh Thian Ser, M.B.A. (National University of Singapore)
Visiting Professor from the Judge
Institute of Management, University of Cambridge
Charles HTurner, D.B.A. (Harvard Business School)
Visiting Professor from the Peter F
Drucker Graduate
William B Relf, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate University)
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)
Howard Jay Chizeck, Sc.D. (MIT)
Paul Budak, M.Sc. (UW)
Scot Land, B.Sc. (College of the Ozarks)
Wayne Wager, M.B.A. (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
Yongmin Kim, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Professors
Cham Tao Soon, Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Lim Mong King, Ph.D. (Universite du Maine)
Low Buen Sin, Ph.D. (University of Manchester)
Martin G Helander, Ph.D. (Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg,
Sweden)
Associate Professors
Yeo Khim Teck, Ph.D. (University of Manchester)
Assistant Professors
David Butler, Ph.D. (University of Birmingham)
Vesa Jukka Kangaslahti Ph.D.(Cambridge)
Adjunct Instructors
Alex Tan Tiong Huat, M.B.A. (Nanyang Technological University)
Alex Yu, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Andrew Chong Kwong Tsen, M.B.A. (Nanyang Technological University)
Anthony Teo, M.B.A. (Harvard Business School)
Eugene Wong, Ph.D. (University of Honolulu)
Htin Lin, M.B.A. (INSEAD)
Kenneth Chiam Siang Roung, M.Sc. TIP (NTU-UW)
Koh Hock Tee, M.B.A. (Nanyang Technological University)
Koh Kian Lum, M.B.A. (Nanyang Technological University)
Lee Kah Howe, Grad Dip (NTU-UW)
Lee Kum Chun, M.Sc. (George Washington University)
Michael Lin, M.Sc. (National University of Singapore)
Ong Lay Kiam, M.Sc. (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Philip T. K. Yin, M.B.A. (Georgetown University)
Reto Calligari, Ph.D. (University of Zurich)
Saw Lin Kiat, Ph.D. (Loughborough College, England)
Tang Shiuh Huei, M.Sc. TIP (NTU-UW)
Toh See Kiat, Ph.D. (University of London)
Tralvex (Rex) Yeap, M.Sc. (The University of Leeds)
Degree programmes and requirements