Our Ethos
- Entrepreneurship is a mindset and discipline that must be embraced by students and staff alike.
- We subscribe to the study and practice of entrepreneurship both within and beyond the curriculum.
- Maximum opportunities are created to foster and facilitate multi-disciplinary learning and practice of entrepreneurship across the Polytechnic – regardless of the course of study and field of specialisation.
- Entrepreneurship values must be recognised, assimilated and developed in students.
Our Entrepreneurship Values
All diploma courses can contribute to the experience of the student who may one day become an entrepreneur. However, the underlying factor is the infusion of entrepreneurial values in every diploma course.
The values which we promote are:
- Integrity and reliability; builder of trust; practices fairness
- Tolerance of uncertainty and lack of structure
- Global in outlook
- Adaptive
- Interpersonal empathy
- Market driven
- Team builder
- Self-starter, independence in learning
- Persistence in solving problems
A word on the values from a captain of industry…
Mr Roger Khoo,
CEO
GasHub Pte Ltd
I think the values are aptly captured and the spirit of enterprise well illustrated by these nine values. I must give kudos to the individual/team who had this wrapped up so nicely. There is really nothing more I can add, or subtract from it.
I am personally motivated in my spirit of enterprise (throughout my entrepreneurial years) by what Thomas A. Edison once said and I wonder if this might in anyway translate to a value statement for you.
"From his neck down, a man is worth just a few dollars a day; But from his neck up, he is worth anything his brain can produce." Thomas A. Edison
Indeed, the IP of every passionate entrepreneur starts from his neck upwards, and just keeps accumulating.
I will adopt it for my corporate use as well.
Key Education Concepts
Core Subject - Basics of Entrepreneurship
Every student in the Temasek Business School will have to go through a compulsory subject called “Basics of Entrepreneurship”, in which they will be exposed to the key elements of entrepreneurship.
This subject introduces students to the basic concepts of entrepreneurship, and examines the traits of successful entrepreneurs and the basic elements of generating new business ideas. It serves as a foundation upon which students can embark on continuing further studies in entrepreneurship and participation in Poly-wide business projects and other entrepreneurial activities.
Cross-Disciplinary Subjects
Entrepreneurship Project
Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build something from practically nothing. “Entrepreneurship Project: Interdisciplinary Approach” is a cross-disciplinary subject that engages students from different disciplines to come together and work on projects that have entrepreneurial perspectives with the aim of creating a product, service or process that is unique and of economic as well as social value.
Innovation Principles & Practice
A second cross-disciplinary subject, Innovation Principles & Practice aims to prepare students for the fast paced changing entrepreneurial environment. Focusing on product innovation, the subject aims to equip students with the process skills for purposeful, systematic innovation through a comprehensive approach.
“Learning by Doing” – The Entrepreneurship Cart System
The aim of the entrepreneurship cart system is to provide a platform for our students to put their entrepreneurial skills to practice and at the same time to encourage “learning by doing”. It operates on a rental basis which allows students to book the cart at $10/day for business activities.
As a Subject in All Diplomas
At Temasek Polytechnic, all diplomas have either specialised entrepreneurship subjects, elective subjects or entrepreneurship-related content embedded in their subjects to train students in Entrepreneurship Process Skills.
Students in Free Enterprise Interest Group (TP SIFE)
SIFE is a global non-profit organisation which aims to mobilise students from the institutes of higher learning to create economic opportunity for others while discovering their own potential. Temasek Polytechnic has been a supporter of SIFE. Through TP SIFE, we seek to change the mindsets of our youths; to be passionate in helping the less fortunate. We hope to accomplish this by coaching, and molding them into sincere, self-driven and ethical individuals with an attitude of service.
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