Entrepreneurship education: training technopreneurs in Singapore

In the Knowledge Economy that characterizes the 21st century, Governments around the world are attempting to stimulate the creation of technical entrepreneurs or technopreneurs. Singapore is no different. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) of Singapore (Wong et al 2005) highlights that high tech entrepreneurship is a catalyst for economic growth, and since 1999, the Singapore Government has been pushing for increased levels of Technopreneurship. As elsewhere the Singapore Education system has been charged with initiating a more entrepreneurial culture, and it has responded by introducing innovation into its teaching. Using Singapore as the base case, the first author is undertaking a doctoral study to research on the training programmes for technopreneurs, and hopes that the research findings could contribute knowledge to entrepreneurship education research, thereby assisting educators and policy makers to further improve the quality and performance of the training programmes globally. This paper therefore gives a report on the status of this on-going research project, and shares the research findings.