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22 August 2009

NRF awards S$4m to 16 Proof-of-Concept projects

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Hot off the press – National Research Foundation (NRF) announces that it has awarded a total of S$4 million in Proof-of-Concept (POC) grants to 16 projects from the institutes of higher learning.

Total of 91 proposals received from local universities, polytechnics and UniSIM; 27 (29.6% of submitted proposals) were shortlisted for further review, out of which [...]

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5 June 2009

SPRING awards 21 TECS grants in 2nd grant call, brings total to 38

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SPRING today announced that another 21 companies have been awarded the TECS POC and POV grants.  To recap, TECS stands for Technology Enterprise Commercialisation Scheme (TECS) – a S$75 million programme launched by SPRING in April 2008 “to provide technology start-ups and enterprising public-sector researchers” (i.e. A*STAR) with early-stage funding support to R&D projects either [...]

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28 May 2009

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Starting your Venture in SG (with Govt as your guardian angel)

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Having written about Singapore’s generous yet uncoordinated initiatives for entrepreneurs, I decide to be helpful and shed some light on the otherwise dark and confusing path.  The following are my personal views on the path that entrepreneurs in Singapore could take to gain leverage, stretch their dollars and extend their runway as they innovate amidst [...]

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15 May 2009

Singapore’s Uncoordinated Initiatives for Entrepreneurs

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Earlier this afternoon, I came across SGentrepreneur.com’s post on Wong Meng Weng’s map of Venture Capital in Singapore (good job Meng Weng!) and couldn’t help but notice Bernard’s comment on how it’s highly unlikely for entrepreneurs to find funding via the traditional venture capital route amidst the turbulent and challenging climate.
(off-topic) Bernard, I really have [...]

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3 November 2008

Pump-priming Entrepreneurship in Singapore

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I had alluded to the opportunity for the Singapore Government to turn crisis into opportunity and capitalize on the downturn to stimulate the entrepreneurial landscape in Singapore in an earlier post. One such window for our government to act would be during the upcoming Budget announcement scheduled for sometime in Feb 2009, a mere 4 months [...]

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