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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 region’s leading center of excellence for entrepreneurship education.

The Center was established in January 2001, as a multidisciplinary university-level center, through the sponsorship of Nanyang Technological University and the 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 the necessary skills and knowledge for students to become successful 21st century entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs (corporate entrepreneurs).
• To make NTC the center 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)

Low Buen Sin, Ph.D. (University of Manchester)

Martin G Helander, Ph.D. (Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden)

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)