Incubation
NUS Enterprise Incubator (NEI), part of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, provides a comprehensive and effective incubation programme for startups.
Through our incubation programme, we provide early start-ups and entrepreneurs access to services such as:
- General business consultancy
- General advice on marketing and publicity matters
- General advice on fund raising and the availability of government grants
- Mentoring
- Networking sessions
- Capability development and workshops, seminars and business clinics
- Overseas connections through the NUS Overseas College programme
- General facilities management services
- General internet connectivity
Eligibility: The NUS Enterprise Incubator is open to start-ups founded by NUS staff, students or alumni. Preference will be given to companies which are funded by/through NUS and/or have licensed NUS technologies. Applicants must have a viable business plan for an innovative product or service.
Application: To apply, please submit an executive summary of your business plan. Please click here to download the template and email the completed form to neiquery@nus.edu.sg
The Grameen Creative Lab (GCL) and NUS Entrepreneurship Centre have formed a partnership, known as GCL@NUS.
The objective of the GCL@NUS Initiative for Social Business is to leverage the global resources and networks of the Grameen Creative Lab to promote and incubate innovation-based social businesses in Singapore that have the potential to generate scalable, sustainable social impacts in Emerging Markets, especially social groups at Bottom of the Pyramid.
What is Social Business?
While maximizing profits and financial returns have become the key driving force for economic activities in the world, social problems continue to increase globally, to some extent even driven by the negative impact of profit maximizing businesses. It becomes obvious that we need to question whether people should benefit the economy, or the economy benefit the people.
How can we redesign at least parts of the business world in order to solve problems rather than creating them? How can we mitigate greed and mistrust, but at the same time also use proven business methodologies and technological innovations to solve prevalent social problems? One idea to address these questions is the concept of social business, which is spreading rapidly around the world.
Just as many for-profit entrepreneurs and corporations have exploited business and technological innovations to provide new products and services for the higher income population segments in the advanced economies, many socially-minded entrepreneurs and corporations are creating new, innovation-driven social businesses to make sustainable social impacts among the poor in the developing world.
For more information click here.
Plug-In@Blk71 is a joint initiative by MDA, NUS Enterprise and Singtel Innov8 to aggregate a cluster of entrepreneurs for the purpose of creating a collaborative and synergistic community.
Managed by NUS Enterprise, Plug-In@Blk71 serves as a common platform where different stakeholders in a business venture can meet and be connected together to help accelerate the growth of young start-ups or even budding ideas. Besides offering a space to conduct events and hot desks for entrepreneurs to test bed and work on their ideas, the tripartite aims to bring four elements into this community: the institutions, the industry experts, funding as well as the government body - all these will help bridge the gap and close the loop in establishing successful start-ups.
NUS Enterprise has also lined up a series of business clinics, networking sessions, VC pitching sessions, as well as industrial sharing seminars to be held within Plug-In@Blk71, through which, the community will be exposed to a holistic support network where dots can be connected.
So whether you are an individual with ideas, a developer, an industry expert or a venture capitalist, we welcome you to join us in this community! Find out more and register with us now at www.blk71.com.