Technopreneurs in this context refers to people who see opportunity to venture in technology-related knowledge-based businesses such as E-business, Infocomm Technology, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology and logistics. These are businesses which could give significant economical growth for SingaporeFor any of the points above, appreciate your participation in advance. Pls invite your friends to join in if this topic interests them.
Personally....technopreneurship cannot be trained.....yeah some basic foundations can be taught but the bes form of education is going out there and getting your teeth knocked out in the real corporata business world.....Originally posted by Chezmoi:Hello there !
Calling all who think that entrepreneurs and technopreneurs can be trained ! I'm doing a research on "Technopreneurship (or Technology Entrepreneurship) Education in Singapore for people above 15 years old". I'm discussing it here hoping to find out more about it...
1. Specifically, if you are a student/educator/school, I'd like to find out more about the courses/programmes/delivering methods of training technopreneurs you do or you know is available in Singapore.
2. In addition, I'd like to hear your views w.r.t :
a) whether you think schools in Singapore are currently teaching enough to train people to become technopreneurs ? If yes , what made you think so ? If no, why not? What is lacking and how do you think should be taught to be enough ?
b) do you think there are any challenges faced by schools and educators in Singapore to train students to become technopreneurs? If yes , what are these challenges?
c) in order to become a technopreneur, what do you think s/he should know or learn ?
d) Any thing, in particular, that should exist for or in a technopreneur?
e) It seems that entrepreneurship education is still not a major study in most schools in singapore. Do you think so ? If yes, do you think it should continue to play a role like this? or do you think schools should attempt to establish a diploma/degree in entrepreneurship? And how about the idea of setting up an "entrepreneurship university"?
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1. Specifically, if you are a student/educator/school, I'd like to find out more about the courses/programmes/delivering methods of training technopreneurs you do or you know is available in Singapore.If there's any, it's geared to life sciences. Biotechnology more specifically.
2. In addition, I'd like to hear your views w.r.t :a) See question 1.
a) whether you think schools in Singapore are currently teaching enough to train people to become technopreneurs ? If yes , what made you think so ? If no, why not? What is lacking and how do you think should be taught to be enough ?
b) do you think there are any challenges faced by schools and educators in Singapore to train students to become technopreneurs? If yes , what are these challenges?
c) in order to become a technopreneur, what do you think s/he should know or learn ?
d) Any thing, in particular, that should exist for or in a technopreneur?
e) It seems that entrepreneurship education is still not a major study in most schools in singapore. Do you think so ? If yes, do you think it should continue to play a role like this? or do you think schools should attempt to establish a diploma/degree in entrepreneurship? And how about the idea of setting up an "entrepreneurship university"?
I still disagree. Experienced technopreneurs served to provide an insight, and they still won't train students to be a technopreneur.Originally posted by Chezmoi:hmm...so another point that Coquitlam's message has also helped to remind us... :
Business people or more specifically, experienced technopreneurs themselves would be better educators to train students to become technopreneurs then. Right ? Anyone else who supports or disagrees with this ?
I guess if so, then it will become an important criterion to recruiting educators to train students studying technopreneurship at schools in future ! Or Is it already the case now ? Students taking technopreneurship courses, are your lecturers or project mentors also experienced technopreneurs in themselves? If so, how do these educators perform in their teachings ? Pls share with us. Thanks.
Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:But Why?? Any report or statistics to justify this?
[b]Technopreneurship sounds possible, but in reality, it's quite hard in Singapore.
The people here simply lacks an interest for it.
For e.g. Some people may think a person's personality is something to consider one as a entrepreneur ? And it seems that they are 9 such business personality types to discover entrepreneurs. Apart from personality, may be there are other elements of a person which such thing may not be able to be taught in class.
d) Don't quite get you.
From -http://sbinformation.about.com/cs/development/a/personality.htm
As I've said... knowledge of some business subjects would be helpful, but not to the extent of not understanding how they could be applied.Originally posted by Chezmoi:Looks like different business used different business strategy and they know their markets well enough to deploy different marketing techniques, e.g. dell being well-known in direct selling as compared to its competitors to gain the market share. Would you then agree that marketing is an important subject that students in science and technology should place more emphasis in and these schools should teach students as the basic knowledge if they want to embark on their technopreneurship career ?
But Why?? Any report or statistics to justify this?I have none to offer.
I'm really interested to know why do you reckon the people here lack the interest? Is it a social problem? Education problem? Sg Govt is not doing enough? Parent's influence, etc? Or that Singaporean are not ready and cannot take failures and risks?Social - maybe.
Personally I have met people who are really interested. But their problem is that they do not know how to get started, and how to go about doing it? And they tried to attend seminars conducted by schools, private institutions or even approached entrepreneurs/technopreneurs to hear them share their experiences. Yet after these activities, they are still unsure what to do. Now that there are also courses at schools such as ITE, Polys, universities here in Sg to train technopreneurship, hence my interest is to identify and evaluate if there is any courses now or in future in school which could best help students like them. And if you mentioned people simply lack the interest, why? Can education in Sg play a role to boost up the interest and encourage more people to become technopreneurs?You have met interested individuals, so have I. They have attended courses, seminars and workshops, but still have no idea. That's expected. You don't expect to learn how to walk in just one day. And they are still learning.
For e.g. Some people may think a person's personality is something to consider one as a entrepreneur ? And it seems that they are 9 such business personality types to discover entrepreneurs. Apart from personality, may be there are other elements of a person which such thing may not be able to be taught in class.Personality plays a part, but is not a key. Whether something works or fails, will still depend on your own business and common sense. And of course, how well you do your research. Launching something without much research is doomed for failure since you don't understand your own consumer market well.
Anyone would like to comment on this ?Originally posted by Chezmoi:Hi again !
4th University in Singapore ... what do you think ?