Entrepreneurial students at all levels (BSc, MITB, MSc and PhD) who aspire to develop their innovations for commercial use can look forward to an environment that provides strong support for understanding the "go-to-market" process, intellectual property management and securing start-up funding. All SMU students, staff and faculty can work closely with the University's Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (IIE) for all aspects of entrepreneurship support, including mentoring and guidance from experienced and successful entrepreneurs.
Check out the following entrepreneuship activities:
- Companies started by SIS students
- List of SIS Students & Alumni Entrepreneurs
- SMU Ventures: The Entrepreneurship Society
- UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance Centre
The Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) has been set up to create and grow innovation and entrepreneurship culture amongst SMU's students, staff and faculty through collaborations with the community. IIE is committed to help inventors to commercialise their ideas and aspires to build high quality and robust start ups. IIE will also be an innovation partner for SMEs and large enterprises.
IIE is predominantly organized into Innovation Promotion, Innovation Sandbox, Incubation (Business Innovations Generator), Business Acceleration, Joint R&D, Intellectual Property Management and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training functions.
SMU Ventures: The Entrepreneurship SocietySMU Ventures incubates new ventures and networks with investors and consultants. It strives to make entrepreneurship, idea generation, and the spirit of change a hallmark of SMU by incubating new ventures and networking with the industry, investors and consultants. SMU Ventures organise a number of events that allow students to gain insight, ideas and inspiration from experienced entrepreneurs and like-minded individuals.
SIS students have been very active in this society since its inception. For more information, email ventures@sa.smu.edu.sg
UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance CentreThe UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance (USEA) Centre seeks to provide educational opportunities for SMU students to work with local enterprises in Singapore. Through their involvement with local enterprises as student consultants, they will learn about enteprise management issues and SME consulting. The SMU students will not be working alone but under the guidance of SMU faculty and SMU affliated professionals as mentors.
