Entrepreneurship and Innovation 

This category covers:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
  • Leadership Studies
  • Strategic Management
  • Technopreneurship

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Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre (NTC)

 NameResearch Interests
Assoc Prof Appa Iyer SivakumarAdvanced Manufacturing Systems Engineering; Design, Planning, & Scheduling of Manufacturing systems; Supply Chain and Logistics Analysis; Operations Research; Planning & design of Supply Chain; Multi-Objective Optimization, Discrete Event Simulation, Scheduling, Logistics, and Research Methodology
Assoc Prof Arthur Lee GilbertImpact of case teaching on learning (in-progress); Adoption of new technological innovations; Public policy to encourage network-based startups; Use of ubiquitous ad-hoc network technologies, especially by public sector.
Dr Chan Teng HengProf Chan's areas of expertise are business & HR strategies, HR Consulting, impact of technology on management and role of entrepreneurship in startups. His current research areas are in strategic impact of HR practices on organisation performance, HR impact on photographic equipment retailing, and impact of technology on HR & Management.
Assoc Prof (Adj) Chan Ying LockAssoc Prof Chan's expertise are in the areas of hospitality and tourism, and SME start ups. His current research works include sustainable tourism, the economic impact of global tourism and SME entrepreneurship.
Assoc Prof David Lee ButlerProf Butler's area of expertise are surface metrology, machining processes and novel removal processes. His current research focuses on electrokinetic removal, the application of diatoms for nanotechnology and ultraprecision grinding.
Assoc Prof Fock Siew TongProf Fock's research interests are in entrepreneurship, banking business especially in corporate banking and private banking, and intergeneration transitional issues of large family businesses in Asia Pacific. His research findings have been published i top refeered journals such as Family Business Review, the Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and International Journal of Business and Information. He has wriiten a new book on Dynamics of Family Business: The Chinese Way which has been published by Cengage Learning in August 2008. His research findings have been presented at leading international conferences such as the Babson-Kauffman Foundation Conference on Entrepreneurship. He is also on the editorial board of thee Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Assoc Prof Foo Check TeckProfessor FOO Check Teck's areas of research interests are cross disciplinary in technology, management and strategy. His current focus on management is to lead in developing Chinese theories of management and relating Art of War thinking to systems engineering. As for applied engineering and technology, he concentrates on sustainability engineering (neogenesisasean.web.com) and innovations in port/infrastructural technology and AI for judging.
Asst Prof Han-Wong Soke YinProf Han-Wong Soke Yin's areas of expertise are entrepreneurship and marketing.
Asst Prof Ho Kong WengDr Ho had published in the areas of social mobility, international outsourcing, wage inequality, technopreneurship, and unemployment, including both theoretical investigations and empirical studies using Singapore data. His current research topics include intergenerational transmission of religious human capital, economic growth of a small open economy in a world of ideas, trade and indeterminacy, non-monotonic relationship between human capital and unemployment, and happiness studies. He is currently writing a paper on the educational aspiration and intergenerational mobility in Singapore, and another paper on inter-personal and intergenerational transmission of happiness. Together with other researchers, he is also wrting a paper on distance to frontier and the natural rate of unemployment, and working on a mutli-year evaluation of a work support program.
Asst Prof Kang Soon Lee, EugeneEugene's areas of research expertise are in corporate governance, director interlocks, and entrepreneurship. He has published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Multinational Business Review.