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Introduction
Entrepreneurs need to explore different ways to grow their businesses, such as creating new products, services, markets, customers, and business models. Learners in this course will create growth plans by using their venture's current strengths and developing new ones. This course is especially useful for entrepreneurs who want to take advantage of new opportunities and help their businesses stay competitive. Learners will use the right strategies for a changing market through the different stages of the industry's life cycle.
The course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in Technopreneurship and Innovation
- FlexiMasters in Technopreneurship and Innovation
- Masters in Technopreneurship and Innovation
Course Availability
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Date(s): 23 Nov 2024 to 11 Jan 2025
Time: Every Saturday, 9:30AM to 5:00PM.
Schedule: Download here
Venue: Synchronous e-learning and asynchronous e-learning; Delivered in English
Registration is closed.
At the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Describe the growth process and growing pains of startups
- Evaluate realistic growth opportunities and develop action plans to seize the opportunities.
- Explain how to manage the growing venture.
- Develop growth strategies and implementation plans.
Scope / Syllabus
Session 1: Startup Process
Session 2: Startup Decisions
Session 3: Venture Growth, Efficiency vs Growth, Operations Management, Diagnostic of Growth
Session 4-5: Growing Ventures, Product Development, IP
Session 6: Financing growth
Session 7-8: Organizational Development & HR, Public Relations and Social Media
Session 9: Value and Growth Analysis
Session 10: Growth Strategies
Session 11-12: Formulating Growth Plan, Risk Management
To meet the requirement of SkillsFuture Singapore, assessment(s) will be conducted during every course. The assessment(s) include:
- Class Participation
- Assignment
- Continuous Assessment
- Group Project Presentation
- Project Report
Suitable for current and aspiring tech innovators and startup founders, as well as corporate executives and civil servants who wish to broaden their competencies and make a difference in the future economy.
Standard Course Fee: S$5,886
SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding) | S$5,400.00 | S$1,765.80 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$685.80 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
- Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
Dr. Xia Zhiqiang
Dr. Xia Zhiqiang currently serves as the Academic Director of the NTU Entrepreneurship Academy (NTUpreneur) and the Director of Graduate & Undergraduate Programmes at NTUpreneur. His expertise spans across innovation and entrepreneurship training, mentoring, business development, and project management in multicultural contexts. His career at NTU started in 2004 as an Assistant Director in two offices: Nanyang Technopreneurship Center and China Strategy Group (President’s Office). In his first role, he co-developed the Chinese track of the Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation (MSc TIP) starting in 2006. In his second role, he was responsible for strategic planning and implementation of several China-related NTU projects. He was instrumental in executing NTU’s Global Immersion Program (GIP), enabling undergraduates to gain extensive overseas study, industrial attachment, and living experience. Prior to his extensive career in education, Dr. Xia worked in the IT and real estate industries, managing projects in ERP, knowledge management, asset valuation, and business M&A.
He actively participates in professional and social communities. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2013, a frequent final-round judge for the Singapore Prestige Brand Award since 2015, and a member of the Post Secondary Education Institutions Sub-Committee of ACEsg (Action Community for Entrepreneurship) since 2023. He was the President of the International Council for Small Business (Singapore Chapter) from 2015 to 2017 and the Treasurer & ExCo member of Singapore-China Association for Advancement of Science and Technology (2017-2019).
Dr. Xia holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering, an MBA with the Nanyang MBA Scholarship, a master’s degree in Real Estate from NUS, and a Ph.D. (with Dean’s Commendation) in entrepreneurship from the University of Adelaide. He maintains strong connections with entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and educators in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Singapore and internationally. His efforts have helped many entrepreneurs and startups secure venture funding and strategize business growth and international development.
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| CET6001 Introduction to Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| CET6002 Entrepreneurial Marketing and Business Development | 3 |
| CET6003 New Venture Financing | 3 |
| CET6007 Technopreneurial Mindset | 3 |
Listed courses are:
- Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Technopreneurship and Innovation (9 AU), FlexiMasters in Technopreneurship and Innovation (15 AU) and Masters in Technopreneurship and Innovation (30 AU).
