The NUS School of Computing embraces enterprising spirits with a myriad of opportunities and support both university wide and from the school's own. An array of initiatives have been developed for these venturesome and aspiring entrepreneurs which includes:
NUS SoC Incubation Centre
NUS SoC Incubation Centre is our very own buttress and commitment to foster a thriving spirit of enterprise in the school. The Incubation Centre aims to provide infrastructure support for School of Computing students or recent graduates who have an entrepreneurial flair and viable business ideas, purposed to ease the process of their early development and help them see to their innovations' commercialisation. By providing these start-ups with shelter and advices during their infancy and critical periods of survival, the school have nurtured many success stories.
Read more about NUS SoC Incubation Centre here.
NUS Overseas Colleges
This signature NUS programme targets NUS undergraduates with sound academic grounding and entrepreneurial zeal to put them on overseas internships in start-ups located in leading entrepreneurial and academic hubs across the globe. While on they are on the job, they will also be taking entrepreneurship related courses at top-notch partner universities. The intent is to cultivate and nurture them into enterprising, resourceful and independent self-starters who eventually develop into successful entrepreneurs. There are five highly select overseas colleges in total based in Silicon Valley and Philadelphia, USA; Beijing and Shanghai, China; Stockholm, Sweden; and Bangalore, India respectively.
Read more about NUS Overseas College here.
iLead (innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development) Programme
This programme is targeted at students who wish to pick up the ropes of running a new business by immersing in a Singapore start-up context. Under this initiative a group of cream start-up companies, recognised for their innovative capacities, are engaged to provide compatible student interns with guidance from their top management and working experience to expose them to the entrepreneurial challenges in Singapore.
Read more about iLead here.
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