May 2009

[29 May 2009]

• Click Chic
  Launched in March by SMU business graduate Daniel Lim and NUS real-estate graduate Benjamin Han, the website Reebonz offers new sales hawking anything from Marc Jacobs to Miu Miu.
  The Straits Times

[20 May 2009]

• Entrepreneurship at uni gets $22m boost
  Entrepreneurship efforts at local universities have received a $22 million boost from the National Research Foundation. The NUS will receive $9 million, while SMU and NTU will each get $6.5 million.
  The Business Times
  
• Turning our varsities into entrepreneurial hotbeds
  Practice Professor Desai Arcot Narasimhalu, director of SMU's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, said the money from the University Innovation Fund will be used, among other things, to create an Entrepreneur Corner.
  TODAY

[19 May 2009]

• 3 universities receive S$22m innovation grant to boost entrepreneurship
  Prof Howard Hunter says one of the most important things is that the University Innovation Fund will help provide more opportunities for students to have direct experience overseas and other places with active entrepreneurs and innovators. SMU graduates Keith Ng and Damon Widjaja who founded Swoozh, a start-up at the SMU Business Innovations Generator, share their thoughts on the funding.
  Channel NewsAsia
  Channel 8

• National Research Foundation sets up $50 million University Innovation Fund
  President Professor Howard Hunter said that the university hopes to set up new entrepreneurship programmes and attract enterprising students who can benefit from the strong innovation and entrepreneurial spirit at SMU.
  Lianhe Zaobao