01 August 2019
A National University of Singapore research study on its entrepreneurship programme has demonstrated that entrepreneurship is a quality that can be nurtured.
The research study found that students who participated in the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme are 10 times more likely to go on to start a business within a year of graduation, compared with other NUS graduates.
One in three NOC students set up their own technology-based businesses after one year of studying and working in start-ups in business nodes of the world, such as Silicon Valley in California.
More than half of the NOC alumni surveyed also reported having gone to work in start-ups.
To date, more than 3,000 NUS students have gone to colleges in 12 locations around the world, including New York City, Toronto, Munich, Tel Aviv and Jakarta.