(SCTP) Advanced Professional Certificate in Personal Venture Building and Technology Commercialisation
The Advanced Professional Certificate in Personal Venture Building and Technology Commercialisation is designed to equip aspiring industry veterans, technopreneurs, researchers, and corporate innovators with the skills and frameworks needed to create their first personal venture, including bringing cutting-edge technologies to market.
This Programme fosters robust industry collaboration by integrating real-world case studies, lectures from NTU professors and industry leaders, and experience hands-on projects with corporate and public sector partners. Coupled with mentorship Collaborations with NTUitive will provide participants unique insights into cutting-edge technologies and venture building. Such partnerships not only enrich the learning experience but also facilitate networking opportunities, opening doors to forging partnerships.
Course Date
7 September to 20 November 2026
Registration Closing Date
17 August 2026
Duration
This course is offered on a full-time (3 months) basis.
Who Should Attend
The SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme (SCTP) is designed to support mid-career professionals in developing industry-relevant skills, boosting employability, and enabling successful transitions into new sectors or roles.
This programme supports:
- Mid-to-Senior Leaders: Individuals committed to spearheading transformation, eager to start new ventures to address complex challenges in their organizations and communities.
- Professionals Across Industries: Those seeking to build expertise in venture building
- Entrepreneur/ Start up Owners seeking new ventures
- Research principal officer or investigator
Applicants will be required to undergo a shortlisting process where they must share their résumé and complete a pre-course assessment. Our instructors and career consultants will review applicants to assess their suitability before deciding whether to shortlist them for the course.
Venue
Virtual (Online), NTU e-Learning Platform & NTU@one-north campus
Become the Person Who Builds Things: Most professionals have ideas — few know how to execute them. This programme gives you the end-to-end capability to create a venture from scratch, whether a tech startup, a consulting practice, or a deep-tech spinout, turning you from someone with potential into someone with a track record.
See Technology the Way Investors Do: Learn to look at emerging research and innovation through a commercial lens — identifying which technologies have real market potential and which don't. This skill alone sets you apart in any boardroom, investment committee, or founding team.
Stop Guessing, Start Validating: Replace intuition with method. You'll learn how to rigorously design product-market fit and sharpen your unique selling proposition, so that when you go to market, you go with evidence — not hope.
Lead Teams That Actually Build: Ventures fail not from lack of ideas, but from poor team dynamics. You'll develop the people leadership and team formation skills that founders, intrapreneurs, and innovation leads rely on to move from concept to company.
Get Mentored by People Who Have Done It: Access a curated network of venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, and industry leaders — not just as guest speakers, but as active mentors invested in your venture's success.
Walk Into Any Investor Meeting Ready: From your first pitch to your final Hackathon presentation, you'll develop the fluency, confidence, and structure to present your business case compellingly — and get the funding, partnerships, or buy-in your idea deserves.
Tap Into NTU's Innovation Infrastructure: Go beyond the classroom. As part of this programme, you can be matched with NTU researchers and gain potential access to world-class lab facilities — giving your venture a head start that most founders never get.
Fee & Funding
| Modules | Full Course Fee payable before funding | Course Fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | ||
| ¹ SCs and PRs (Up to 70% Funding) | ² SCs aged 40 and above (Up to 90% funding) | ³ AFS (Up to 95% funding) | ||
| Venture Creation and Team Formation | $7,630 | $2,289.00 | $889 | $539 |
| Venture Funding and Discovery | $6,867 | $2,060.10 | $800.10 | $485.10 |
| Growth Strategy, Exits and Restarts | $7,630 | $2,289.00 | $889 | $539 |
| Capstone – Hackathon and Investor Pitch | $7,630 | $2,289.00 | $889 | $539 |
| Total Programme Fee | $29,757 | $8,927.10 | $3,467.10 | $2,102.10 |
- Fees listed above are inclusive of 9% GST.
Funding Eligibility
1Eligible Singapore Citizens (SCs) aged 39 years and below and Permanent Residents (PRs)must attain at least 75% training attendance and passed all associated assessments to be eligible for funding up to 70% of the course fee. Learners will have to bear the full courses fee upon failure to meet either one of the requirements.
2 Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES) - SCs aged 40 and above must attain at least 75% training attendance and passed all associated assessments to be eligible for funding up to 90% of the course fee. Learners will have to bear the full courses fee upon failure to meet either one of the requirements.
3Additional Course Fee Funding Support - Individuals must be Singapore Citizens and meet one of the following eligibility criteria:
a) Long-term unemployed individuals (unemployed for six months or more);or
b) Individuals in need of financial assistance – ComCare Short-to-Medium Term Assistance (SMTA) recipients or Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) recipients; or
c) Persons with disabilities.
Other Funding Support
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
- Eligible for a SkillsFuture Mid-Career Course Credits top-up of $4,000 to offset out-of-pocket fees for SkillsFuture Career Transition Programmes (SCTP).
- SkillsFuture Mid-Career Training Allowance is available for the SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme in full-time and part-time.
Course Withdrawal and Refund Policy
Refunds requested prior to course commencement date may be subjected to an administrative fee and the deduction of any non-refundable pre-paid amounts. No refunds will be granted upon course commencement.
Read more about funding
 | Upon completing the programme, participants will be awarded the Advanced Professional Certificate by Nanyang Technological University, recognising their achievements in venture creation, technology commercialisation, and strategic product-market alignment. |
Learning Objectives
At the end of the programme, learners will be able to:
- Create a venture business from scratch, including consulting or teaching ventures that support the venture tech ecosystem
- Identify commercialisable technologies
- Design Product-market fit and unique selling point
- How to build teams in venture-building
- Seek mentorship to solidify ideas and venture creation
- Collaborate with potential investors and mentors
Outline
This module helps you to assess if you are ready to embark on an entrepreneurship journey through technology development or consulting services. You will learn how to ideate commercially viable technologies and scale up businesses.
- Introduction to the Course – Personal Discovery & Technology Showcase
- Journey of Technology Venture Creation & Role of Technology in Business
- Product-Market Fit & Value Proposition with Business Model Canvas
You will learn product pitching in groups and start businesses through investment engagement, exit strategy, and various frameworks through class and group work.
- Discovery Process & Team Formation
- Pitching and Fundraising
You will start to trial your business with mentorship at this stage. There will be various corporate visits and fireside chats with leaders in entrepreneurship.
- Capstone Project - Mentorship
- Corporate visits and Fireside chats
- Tutorials
This is the final module of the course for project refinements through mentorship and tutorials with a final hackathon assessment. This will accelerate your learning and venture progress through targeted mentor support and practical application.
- Tutorials
- Corporate visits and Fireside chats
- Mentorship refinements
- Hackathon
- Investor Pitch
Trainers
Dr Koh Chaik Ming
Instructor and Programme Director
Dr Koh Chaik Ming was formerly holding senior appointments in multinationals in operations, finance and general management including startup team of M&Ms/Mars in China, Temasek Holdings first Shanghai Chief Rep and GM Asia and GM BD China for Shell. Since the completion of his Doctorate program at SMU, he has been active in academia particularly in helping Singapore SME business owners grow their businesses through the Enterprise Singapore ELT program where he was both a coach at SMU as well as the Program Director for the NTU program. He is also an adjunct professor at NUS, NTU, SMU and EHL. Several of his SME businesses were technology startups and he has personally helped them in the design of business models, talent sourcing and fund raising. He is also co-founder and CEO of PIMECO, a novel antimicrobial biotechnology startup from an NTU-MIT developed technology and have successfully received more than S$1m funding from NTUitive and SMART for upcoming farm trial and commercialisation.