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How promising research becomes an investable opportunity

By shaping technology development around industry needs and protecting the advances that matter commercially, NTU I&E helps build the case for investment and adoption.

The inventor behind Singapore's first home-grown eVTOL

Professor James Wang spent more than three years turning a bold design into a working electric aircraft. The research centre and partnerships built around his team are now shaping its path towards commercial use.

Transforming student ideas into promising ventures

Three student ventures started with very different ideas. Working with the NTU Entrepreneurship Academy (NTUpreneur), each found that moving closer to market meant changing course.

Building momentum: Four NTU ventures reach new milestones

Fresh investment and an acquisition mark the next chapter for NTU-affiliated ventures, with university support helping them turn technical promise into commercial progress.

Demonstrating the value of innovation

Professor Shirley Meng, NTU’s new Vice President (Industry), on the evidence that gives an invention a future and the people who help it get there.

Building the launchpad for student entrepreneurs

Three new initiatives under the Chua Thian Poh Entrepreneurship Education Fund give NTU student founders a structured path from idea to venture.

A clean sheet for metal 3D printing

By swapping metal powder for ultra-thin steel sheets, NTU researchers are making metal 3D printing stronger, safer and easier to adopt across sectors from aerospace to healthcare to energy systems.

The control problem: Making quantum computing work

NTU physicist Associate Professor Rainer Dumke has built a company around quantum computing’s most overlooked bottleneck: the control layer that connects classical machines to quantum processors.

The quantum clock is ticking. PQStation is getting ready

An NTU spin-off is helping banks and government agencies find and fix the cryptographic blind spots that may be unearthed by quantum computers.

A new home for big ideas to thrive

The new UOB Innovation Hub gives startups and spin-offs the space, infrastructure and networks to turn bold ideas into ventures that make societal impact.

The multiplicand matters

AI can accelerate almost any idea, which is exactly why Professor Luke Ong believes the expertise behind a venture now counts for more than the speed of building it.

From exchange floor to innovation board: A capital markets view of university deep tech

Capital markets veteran Chew Sutat, who spent 14 years taking companies to market at SGX, brings an investor’s eye to NTU’s deep-tech ambitions and the decade ahead.

Ideas to impact: NTUpreneur's GET Innovation Grant backs student ventures

The Growing Entrepreneurial Talents (GET) Innovation Grant supports NTU students in transforming early ideas into testable ventures, providing seed funding and mentorship to build first prototypes.

Technologies shaping tomorrow's industries

A glimpse into various technologies developed at NTU that address challenges spanning sustainability, energy, communications and healthcare, open to industry collaboration, licensing and investment partnerships.

Built to scale: From lab breakthrough to global power player

Amperesand, a deep-tech spin-off from NTU, is rewriting what power infrastructure can do for the world’s AI data centres.

Good science isn't enough: the case for designing translation from day one

Professor Lim Kah Leong points to IP discipline, repeatable processes and partnerships built before the science is ready, and not after.

Nurturing impact at scale

NTU President Ho Teck Hua on balancing basic science and entrepreneurship, and why translating ideas into real-world solutions requires patience, persistence, and the right ecosystem.