National University of SingaporeNUS Enterprise

Match Me Up

Date

28 Mar 2013

Time

5.30pm-8.00pm

Venue

Ground Floor, HUB Singapore

Looking for an co-conspirator, internship, the chance to work in a social business or social enterprise, or the opportunity to recruit someone to your project?

Match Me Up connects individuals and socially-impactful businesses and projects, speed-dating style.

The Importance of Innovation –what an entrepreneur should know to be successful

Date

14 Mar 2013

Time

12.00noon – 2.00pm

Venue

NUS Enterprise Incubator, 5 Prince George’s Park

In this talk, Dr. Nicholson will illustrate innovation using his own personal experiences and real stories of success within the context of having an environment that encourages innovation, and not to punish failures but to nurture positive learning experiences. Come hear from the “Father of the Post-it-Notes Programme (3M)” on what entrepreneurs should know to be successful.

Business Model Canvas Workshop Conversations

Date

19 Feb 2013

Time

9.30AM-12.30PM

Venue

Ground Floor, HUB Singapore

How can the Business Model Canvas be used in the design of Social Enterprises?

Join us as Prof Yves Pigneur and Prof Wong Poh Kam explore how the BMC can be used to map the changing forces that influence the design of a business model. One of the key forces that we’ll focus on is the financing model- crucial for all businesses, but sometimes even more for social enterprises.

The second half of the session will be opened up for discussion. You’re encouraged to be contributors in developing this potential design framework!

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Seminar ” Trumping Trump – Creating a Monster Marketing Plan”

Date

29 Aug 2012

Time

12.00pm – 2.00pm (Networking Lunch will be served at 1.00pm)

Venue

NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Seminar “Gear Up: Your Best Idea Ever!”

Date

23 Aug 2012

Time

12.00pm – 2.00pm (Networking Lunch will be served at 1.00pm)

Venue

National University of Singapore, NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd

Gear Up is a system that helps an entrepreneur to launch a product that can create a new market or disrupt an existing market. It has been used by founders of startup companies and by leaders of large companies, government organizations, and universities who are launching disruptive products and services.  It has been applied in Silicon Valley, Sweden, China, Vietnam, and by members of the NUS College in Silicon Valley Program who are now working on new ventures in Singapore. It is based on a book that is in beta, and will be published in digital form before the end of the year.  

Entrepreneurial Spirit on Singapore Campuses - GUESSS 2011

Date

22 Aug 2012

Time

10.00am - 1.00pm

Venue

Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, National University of Singapore

Entrepreneurial Spirit on Singapore Campuses: Findings from a Global Survey of Tertiary Students

The 13th Start-Up@Singapore Awards Ceremony

Date

19 May 2012

Time

1:15pm - 3:45pm

Venue

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

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.

InnovFest 2012

Date

18 Apr 2012

Time

8am to 5pm

Venue

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

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

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award 2012

Date

20 Apr 2012

Time

7:00pm

Venue

Orchard Hotel

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.

NUS Summer Programme

Date

02 Jul 2012

Time

2 Weeks

Venue

National University of Singapore

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. 

Bringing Medical Products to Market: The Case of Orthera

Date

13 Mar 2012

Time

6:00pm - 7:15pm

Venue

NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2

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. 

Public Lecture at the Lee Kuan Yew School Of Public Policy

Date

23 Feb 2012

Time

5.15pm to 6.30pm

Venue

Law Auditorium, NUS Bukit Timah Campus

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.

Introducing Social Business: A Public Lecture for Youths

Date

23 Feb 2012

Time

10:00am to 12:00pm

Venue

Auditorium, Raffles Institution

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.

Social Business Forum for Corporate Leaders

Date

22 Feb 2012

Time

09:30am to 12.30pm

Venue

Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, NUS Business School

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.

2012 Innovation & Enterprise Award

Date

15 Feb 2012

Time

Venue

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

GCL@NUS | Building a Viable Social Business

Date

30 Sep 2011

Time

6-8pm

Venue

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

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.

Marketing and PR on a budget

Date

15 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

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.

TGIF - The Garag3 Innovation Friday is back!

Date

27 May 2011

Time

6 - 8pm

Venue

8 Prince George’s Park

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

Start-Up@Singapore Awards Ceremony

Date

21 May 2011

Time

12:15pm to 5:00pm

Venue

Guild Hall, Kent Ridge Guild House

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.

Analyzing Entrepreneurial Profiles of Nations

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

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’.

InnovFest

Date

19 Apr 2011

Time

8:30am to 9:30pm

Venue

Kent Ridge Guild House, National University of Singapore

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.

Social Business – Counterculture in the Economic World

Date

16 Mar 2011

Time

9:15 AM to 2:00 PM

Venue

Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, National University of Singapore

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.