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Dr. Wong is currently a Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Business School and concurrently serves as Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at NUS.
Advising startups, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities
Tags:
business angel investor, entrepreneurship educator, start-up mentor
Schools:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
FULL BIO
Dr. Wong is currently a Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Business School and concurrently serves as Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at NUS. He also holds joint professorship appointment (by courtesy) at the LKY School of Public Policy and the Engineering School’s Division of Engineering & Technology Management (DETM). He obtained two BSc.’s., an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT. Prior to joining NUS in 1988, he co-founded two IT companies and a consulting firm in Malaysia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (KTH), and a visiting professor at Korea University Business School.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
Position:
Director
Description:
As director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, he spearheads the university’s entrepreneurship education and outreach programs and various university technology spin-off support programs including incubator facilities, seed funding and mentoring. He also directs the centre’s research program on technology entrepreneurship and innovation strategy.
Employer:
Various projects
Position:
Researcher
Description:
He is the lead researcher for Singapore in several major international collaborative research projects, including the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the European Science Foundation-sponsored 10-country international comparative study on National Innovation System of small countries, and the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE). He recently coordinated a 2-year 11-universities comparative research project on Asian university technology commercialization funded by a Japanese foundation.
Employer:
Various international agencies
Position:
Consulting experience
Description:
He has also consulted widely for international agencies such as the World Bank, various government agencies in Malaysia (e.g. Penang State Government, MOSTE) and in Singapore (e.g. A*STAR, EDB, IDA, MPA), and many high tech firms in Asia (e.g. HP, Visa International and SingTel). His recent consulting assignments include a study on IP creation and usage in Singapore for the IP Academy, a study for A*STAR on the impact of a public R&D support program, and a study for the World Bank on high tech clusters in Asia.
Employer:
NUS
Position:
A leadership role in technology management and entrepreneurship education
Description:
He has played a leadership role in technology management and entrepreneurship education in NUS, including initiating and directing the MSc (Management of Technology) Program in the NUS Business School (1992-98), pioneering a Technology Entrepreneurship Minor program for all NUS students (1999-2007), and playing a key advisory role in the establishment of the NUS Overseas College (NOC) Program that involves a one-year internship by NUS students at high tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, Shanghai, Stockholm, Bangalore and Beijing. In 2008, he initiated a new internship-based entrepreneurial learning program in Singapore called iLEAD (Innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development) for NUS students.
He has co-directed/taught various senior executive education programs related to innovation management and high tech strategy, including the NUS-U.C. Berkeley Managing E-Commerce in Asia Executive Program and the NUS-WIPO Program on IP Management. He has been active in promoting technology entrepreneurship activities in Singapore, including initiating the StartUp@Singapore Competition (an annual national business plan competition in Singapore), the ASEANpreneur network, the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in Singapore, and the Innovating for the Ageing Society Forum.
Employer:
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Position:
Professor
Description:
Professor, NUS Business School;
Director, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre;
Professor (by courtesy), NUS Engineering School and LKY School of Public Policy
EDUCATION
University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Degree:
PhD
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
He has published in numerous international journals on high tech industries, innovation strategy/policy and technology entrepreneurship, including Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Management, IEEE Trans. Engineering Management, Scientometrics, Small Business Economics, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Information Society, World Development and Information Economics and Policy.
INFORMATION
Memberships:
An active business angel investor, his current portfolio of investee companies include iWow Technology (a past Singapore Enterprise 50 winner), GlobalRoam (first company quoted on Singapore OTC market), Mozat and TenCube (past Red Herring Asia 100 finalists) in Singapore, Teralene in China, Invantest in Silicon Valley, USA, and iXigo in India. He is the founding chairman of Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia) and BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, an angel investment fund co-invested in by the Singapore government. He is a board member of NUS Technology Holdings and a member of the evaluation panel of The Enterprise Challenge (TEC) fund under the Prime Minister’s Department and the Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS) of SPRING Singapore.
Internationally recognized as an entrepreneurship educator, he is a Council Member of the Wawasan University (Malaysia) and has been a member of the advisory board of various entrepreneurship educational programs overseas, including the MSc Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Oslo, Norway, and the Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE) at Newcastle University, UK.
Awards:
He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) by the Singapore Government in 2005.
