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Our Organisational Framework

The SMU Business Innovations Generator (SMU BIG) will incubate business innovations into start ups. We emphasize incubating business innovations and not merely technology innovations. Business innovations create value for their customers while technology innovations merely enable business innovations. This function will assemble a roster of business mentors that can benefit SMU’s stakeholders. Click here to access the SMU BIG website. This function will vet, protect and monetize intellectual property created by the students, faculty and staff of SMU. It will also help other stakeholders with access to expertise. The SMU Business Innovations Generator (SMU BIG) will incubate business innovations into start ups. We emphasize incubating business innovations and not merely technology innovations. Business innovations create value for their customers while technology innovations merely enable business innovations. This function will assemble a roster of business mentors that can benefit SMU’s stakeholders. Click here to access the SMU BIG website. SMU IIE will work with SMEs and large enterprises to outsource their innovation related R&D to SMU and our Academic Affiliates (such as the 5 Polytechnics, ITE and INSEAD). This function will train SMU’s stakeholders in I&E related topics. Such training will be delivered in the form of academic and industry focused courses and programmes. Some of the programmes will lead to certifications. This function involves SMU’s contribution to NRF’s efforts to establish an ecosystem for early stage venture capital in Singapore. It is the early stage VCs who will help accelerate the growth of new businesses. This function will also develop a network of investors that can benefit SMU’s stakeholders. The Innovation Sandbox is a platform to encourage SMU’s stakeholders to build innovative applications, products and services. SMU has planned an extensive set of innovation and entrepreneurship related programs under the NRF University Innovation Funds scheme. This includes a number of programs that will increase the participation of SMU’s stakeholders in the creation of new innovations and businesses. A number of these programs will also be open to all other Singapore residents.

Click on the respective functions above to find out more.

Members of SMU Enterprise Board

Mr Anil Thadani (Chairman)
Chairman
Symphony Asia Holdings Pte ltd

Professor Howard Hunter
President
Singapore Management University

Mr Gary Kunis
Formerly CSO
CISCO Systems

Mr Sanjiv Misra
Managing Director
Phoenix Advisers Pte Ltd

Mr Ng Kai Wa
Chairman & CEO
Innomedia

Professor Tan Chin Tiong
President
Singapore Institute of Applied Technology

Dr. Ting Choon Meng
CEO
Healthstats Singapore

International Advisors

Dr. John Seely Brown
Former Director, Xerox Parc, USA

Dr. Bala Manian
Serial Entrepreneur, USA

Mr. Narayanan Murthy
Co-founder Infosys Technologies, India

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

Mr. Eddie Chau
Founder, Brandtology

Dr. Robert Bong
Founder, CRICT Research & Consulting

Investor-in-Residence

Mr. Jayesh Parekhekh

Members of the Institute

Professor Desai Narasimhalu, Director ("Dr of the Unknown")
Ms. Adeline C. Tan, Evangelist
Mr. Saravanan T. Annamalai, Catalyst
Dr. Kuo-Yi Lim, Start-up Champion
Associate Professor Adel Dimian, Affiliate Relationship Architect
Ms. Sujyot Shaun Sakhrani, IP Monetizor


Last updated on 8 April, 2010 by Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.