NUS Enterprise Incubator Ecosystem (NEI) formerly known as Venture Support was formed in December 2002 as part of NUS Enterprise, to provide infrastructural support for technology start-ups founded by NUS staff, students and alumni.
As we grow, we recognized that conventional ‘hardware’ services such as physical space and seed funding facilities are not the differentiating factors that will drive the success of incubatees, NEI has adopted a holistic approach to Incubator, based on the Incubator ecosystem. The ecosystem has been established to provide supporting infrastructure to nurture and accelerate the growth of start-ups.
The ecosystem is accessible to all startups that have direct or indirect linkages to NUS, including spin-offs by NUS professors and students that seek to commercialize NUS IP, and other non-NUS start-ups (local and foreign) that want to tap NUS resources (students, lab facilities, etc) or that have synergy with NUS startups. The NEI ecosystem adopts a policy of incubation “without wall”, providing both the “hardware” and “software” to start-ups physically located on the NUS campus, as well as those off campus.
