[WDA Funded] National Infocomm Competency Framework – Technopreneurship Course

NUS Institute of Systems Science will be conducting a Technopreneurship course from 7th Aug 2012 to 22th Sep 2012.

Upon completion of the programme, participants would be:

1) Exposed to entrepreneurship and innovation
2) Able to develop entrepreneurial drive by raising their awareness and motivation
3) Able to develop entrepreneurial ability to identify and exploit opportunities
4) Equipped with the right skills to set up a business and manage its growth

This programme will be conducted in an active exploratory learning environment where participants are expected to lead discussions and participate actively to achieve key learning points. They are also encouraged to be creative and innovative in demonstrating their skills, know-how and attitudes throughout the programme.

One of the instructors is Virginia Cha:

Virginia is an active researcher, educator, mentor, and angel investor in Singapore’s entrepreneur ecosystem after 32 years of executive management in technology companies, with previous roles as founder and CEO of venture-funded, hi-tech companies in Singapore and China with successful exits on NASDAQ and HKSE. Virginia’s research interests are in entrepreneur decision-making and shanzhai innovation models, and have written multiple teaching cases on these subjects. She is an active educator in entrepreneurship and teaches at multiple institutions in Singapore: “Technopreneur”, a National Infocomm Competency Framework (NICF) course at ISS; “New Venture Creation” course at Fudan University; multiple MBA entrepreneurship courses at INSEAD. In addition, she is an active mentor and angel investor to early stage startups, with focus in technology ventures at INSEAD, NUS, and SMU. She is also the chairperson of her own investment holding company with R&D office complex at Tsinghua Science Park in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, PRC.

Virginia earned her Ph.D. in Innovation from the National University of Singapore and her B.S. in Information Computer Science from the University of Hawaii. She started her career as a systems programmer at Burroughs Corporation in the U.S. in 1980. She has lived and worked in Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and multiple cities in the U.S.