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The National University of Singapore’s injection of a more entrepreneurial dimension into education and research is reaping rewards in technology commercialisation and spin-offs.

ike most public universities developed under the British Commonwealth tradition, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has in the past been following the traditional model of having teaching as its primary mission, with research as a secondary function. However, in line with the shift of national economic development strategy towards a knowledge-based and innovation-driven economic model, NUS has since the late 1990s also begun to transform itself into what Henry Etzkowitz has described as the “entrepreneurial university” model. Indeed, since the turn of the century, NUS has established a new vision of becoming a “Global Knowledge Enterprise,” a dynamic community imbued with a “no walls” culture and a spirit of enterprise, which promotes the free flow of ideas and builds synergies between the processes of creating, imparting, and exploiting knowledge.

In line with this new vision, the university set up the NUS Enterprise Cluster in 2001 to inject an enterprise dimension into its core mission of teaching, research, and services. More specifically, NUS Enterprise’s mission is to be an agent of change, promoting the spirit of innovation and enterprise within the NUS community, and generating value from university resources through experiential education, industry development, and venture creation.

The key divisions of NUS Enterprise include the following:

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