National University of SingaporeNUS Enterprise

Date

02 Jul 2012

Time

2 Weeks

Venue

National University of Singapore

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Summer Programme boot camp students

Discover what it takes Singapore to become a thriving economic and enterprising city!  This annual summer programme, in its seventh year, is organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Entrepreneurship Centre, a unit of the NUS Enterprise. 

Date

19 May 2012 - 19 May 2012

Time

1:15pm - 3:45pm

Venue

Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138632. (One North MRT Station)

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S@S award

As the 13th Start-up@Singapore draws to a close, we cordially invite you and other interested students to the Awards Ceremony of Start-Up@Singapore, happening on 19th May. The Awards Ceremony will witness the crowning of Singapore's next top entrepreneurs and proudly showcase the finalists' fully developed business plans, after having undergone months of rigorous judging and mentoring.

Date

20 Apr 2012

Time

7:00pm

Venue

Orchard Hotel

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Innovfest forum 2012 I&E Award award

The 2012 Innovation Entrepreneurship Award winners (Outstanding NUS Innovator and Promising NUS Start-up) will be annouced at The Enterprise Connection Gala Dinner on 20 April. This will be part of Innovfest 2012.

Date

18 Apr 2012 - 20 Apr 2012

Time

8am to 5pm

Venue

Kent Ridge Guild House(18th April)  & Orchard Hotel (19-20 April)

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Innovfest 2012 I&E Award corporate

InnovFest 2012 is an exciting festival of innovation-related activities. Organised by NUS Enterprise for the third year running, this event aims to boost technology transfer, entrepreneurship and investment amongst Asia's business, academic and technology communities. Plenary sessions, workshops and networking events will update participants on the latest trends in intellectual property management and commercialisation, as well as provide direct access to leading startups, business professionals, and investors

Date

13 Mar 2012

Time

6:00pm - 7:15pm

Venue

NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2

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In this talk, the founder and CEO of Orthera will share his insights from his 10-year entrepreneurial journey in bringing his highly disruptive innovation to the consumer medical product retail market, and offer lessons for other entrepreneurs interested in the biomedical industry. 

Date

23 Feb 2012

Time

5.15pm to 6.30pm

Venue

Law Auditorium, NUS Bukit Timah Campus

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social business forum

Addressing civil society and governmental bodies, Professor Yunus will illustrate how social business can play a partnering role in addressing the social needs of a country, and also suggest policy frameworks that will be conducive for the growth of such businesses.

Date

23 Feb 2012

Time

10:00am to 12:00pm

Venue

Auditorium, Raffles Institution

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social business students

Believing in the enormous capabilities of youth, Professor Yunus will introduce the concept to social business to them, and also identify areas of social business where they can participate in to make a difference.

Date

22 Feb 2012

Time

09:30am to 12.30pm

Venue

Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, NUS Business School

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forum social business corporate

This forum will bring Professor Yunus together with leaders of a number of far-sighted global corporations who have initiated collaborations with entrepreneurial social businesses to successfully enter Bottom of the Pyramid markets, an area of tremendous business growth opportunity. There will also be a pitching session to potential corporate partners and social venture investors by selected innovative social businesses incubated by GCL@NUS.

Date

20 Feb 2012 - 21 Feb 2012

Time

Day1: 0900 - 1700hrs, Day2: 0900 - 2000hrs

Venue

To Be Advised

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boot camp social business

The 2-day intensive Social Business Boot Camp is designed to provide participants with highly-interactive, hands on training to develop sustainable, scalable social business plans.

Date

15 Feb 2012

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2012 I&E Award

Do you know anyone who has been successful in licensing or commercialising an innovation in recent years? Or are you part of a promising innovative start-up company that has utilised NUS technologies, been incubated by NUS Enterprise or founded by NUS staff/ex-staff, student, alumnus? Nominations and applications for the 2012 Innovation &Enterprise Awards (I&E Awards) are now open!

Attractive cash prizes from S$10,000 for the Individual category to up to S$100,000 for the Company category. 

2012 Innovation & Enterprise Award - Closing Date for Submission: 15 February 2012

Date

08 Nov 2011 - 08 Nov 2011

Time

6:30pm -8:30pm

Venue

Hon Sui Sen Auditiorium, NUS Business School

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In conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week, join us in the newest edition of Entrepreneurs Unplugged is a panel discussion organized by Start-Up@Singapore, Singapore’s largest and most prestigious business plan competition. The topic for this year’s Entrepreneurs Unplugged is ‘Dream Big, Act Now: Converting Ideas into Businesses’. For the panel discussion, we have speakers from Udders, Home-Fix DIY, Hauslab, REVERSE Co-operative and Asia Centre of Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy to share their take on entrepreneurship and how to feasibly turn business ideas into business reality.  ENTREPRENEURS UNPLUGGED to know more about shaping ideas, overcoming difficulties and achieving dreams!   

Date

18 Oct 2011 - 18 Oct 2011

Time

1750-2200

Venue

School of Thought Auditorium

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Social Business Forum for Youths 

What is it?

An opportunity especially for youths to discover and discuss the future of social entrepreneurship. Begins with a screening of "Bonsai People", a documentary film that explores the work of Muhammad Yunus and his vision from microcredit to social business; Followed by panel discussions with eminent local Social Entrepreneurs. 

Date

06 Oct 2011

Time

6.00 - 8.30pm

Venue

Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, National University of Singapore Business School

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Singapore's Biggest and most Exciting Business Plan Competition is back! Having seen more than 2200 teams and 7000 participants from Singapore and all over the world, Start-up@Singapore is set to foster yet another generation of budding entrepreneurs.

You are cordially invited, on the 6th of October, to the launch of the 13th Start-Up@Singapore with Guest-of- Honour, Mr Teo Ser Luck, Minister of State for Ministry of Trade and Industry. Gain invaluable insights into the local entrepreneurship scene as the founders of Timbré, Soyato and Groupon Singapore discuss their personal experiences as entrepreneurs. Further treat yourself to an eye-opening exhibition of ideas by the past finalists and winners of S@S and network with high profile individuals from various industries.

The Official Launch kick-starts a year packed with S@S events and competitions, all designed to bring out the entrepreneur in you. Join us in welcoming a new generation of exciting business ideas and opportunities by registering at http://www.flickevents.com/13th-start-upsingapore-official-launch now!

Visit http://startup.org.sg/ for more information or follow our updates on Facebook at facebook.com/startupsg.

Date

30 Sep 2011

Time

6-8pm

Venue

NUS University Hall Auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd

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The world population has 4 billion poor people who are excluded from our formal marketplace. Given the current global economic shrinkage, these 4 billion poor are now seen as new customers. But most companies and social entrepreneurs lack knowledge of how to develop this marketplace. Jack Sim will speak on the potential of this Base of Pyramid Marketplace and how the audience can seize this opportunity to create impact regardless of your current resources.

Date

15 Sep 2011 - 16 Sep 2011

Time

9:00am - 5:00pm

Venue

National University of Singapore, Blk 15 Prince George’s Park Residence, Basement 1, Venture Lab, Singapore 118430

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This 2 days course in marketing and PR is for startups and entrepreneurs to jump start their public relations and social media activities and engage the public with web 2.0 tools and strategies. This workshop is suitable for those who have no prior knowledge of public relations, social media or experience in copywriting to attend and walk away having the confidence to start a social media campaign and engage with media.

Date

16 Jun 2011 - 17 Jun 2011

Time

9am - 6pm

Venue

University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore

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Participate in Echelon 2011, the biggest ever edition of Asia's best startup launchpad event. 

Come listen to speakers like Eduardo Saverin, Michael Levinson, Derek Sivers and see the Startup Exhibition of the region's most interesting new web and mobile companies.

Date

27 May 2011

Time

6 - 8pm

Venue

8 Prince George’s Park

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Come and join us at "The Garag3 Innovation Friday" Networking event

Date

21 May 2011

Time

12:15pm to 5:00pm

Venue

Guild Hall, Kent Ridge Guild House

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The  Awards Ceremony of the 12th Start-Up@Singapore (S@S); Singapore’s biggest business plan competition will be held on the 21st of May 2011, Saturday, from 12.15 pm to 5.00 pm. It is the final and biggest event of 12^th S@S and a platform for the culmination of the finals of the business plan competition. The event will showcase the best business ideas that came out of the competition this year as well as prominent entrepreneurs as speakers.

Date

21 Apr 2011

Time

10:00am -11:30am (Registration starts at 9:30am)

Venue

Seminar room 1, Level 1, I3 Building, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, National University of Singapore

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There is considerable interest among policy-makers in measuring the entrepreneurial character of nations. A number of approaches and indices have been proposed for the study of the question. But what is an ‘entrepreneurial economy’? In this talk, Professor Erkko Autio reviews different approaches to measuring the entrepreneurial character of nations and discusses their merits and weaknesses. He will conclude by proposing a policy-oriented conceptual definition for the concept of an ‘entrepreneurial nation’.

Date

19 Apr 2011

Time

8:30am to 9:30pm

Venue

Kent Ridge Guild House, National University of Singapore

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InnovFest is a festival of innovation-related activities that aims to boost investments and technology transfer in Asia. It also offers networking opportunities within the finance, business and technology communities. InnovFest comprises of the Technology Commercialisation Forum, which is open to the public, and The Enterprise Connection, a by-invitation-only event.

Date

04 Apr 2011 - 05 Apr 2011

Time

8:30am

Venue

Blk 71, Ayer Rajah Crescent

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Media Development Authority (MDA), SingTel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise are joining forces to establish a strategic incubation programme, a move set to boost the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) space in Singapore. This programme, known as Blk71 is designed to allow start-ups to gain one-stop access to the resources they need to effectively develop and market their solutions to customers.

Date

16 Mar 2011 - 17 Mar 2011

Time

Wed, Mar 16, 2011 - 1:00 pm to Thu, Mar 17, 2011 - 5:00 pm

Venue

Kent Ridge Guild House, Dalvey Room, Level 2, 9 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore, 119241

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GCL and NEC will jointly conduct the one and a half-day Social Business Lab from the afternoon of 16 March to 17 March 2011. The aim of the Social Business Lab is to help budding social entrepreneurs learn how to develop innovative, sustainable social business solutions to solve social problems.

Through a series of intensive, hands-on team-learning activities, including case studies, experience sharing and brainstorming sessions, participants gain insights into social businesses. Furthermore, participants will receive mentoring and feedback from a panel of experienced resource persons assembled by GCL and NEC.

 Participants will be charged a small fee to cover part of the expenses. Participating teams with the most promising social business ideas will be invited to further develop their innovations at NEC’s social business incubator.

Date

16 Mar 2011

Time

9:15 AM to 2:00 PM

Venue

Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, National University of Singapore

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Counterculture in the Economic World is a public lecture on social business on the morning of 16 March 2011 is open to the public. It will be delivered by Hans Reitz, the founder of GCL and creative advisor of Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. GCL has advised and worked with many global business enterprises on using the social business model to address social problems. There will be a networking lunch after the public lecture.