![]() ![]() Guests were also treated to a sand art performance depicting the remarkable history of NOC and BLOCK71. Mr Julian Pan, the son of the late Prof Jacob Phang, also shared a special video message with the audience in honour of his father. The gala also saw a video screening highlighting the key milestones of NOC and BLOCK71 as well as wishes from its alumni, founders, start-ups, and past and present NUS Enterprise staff. )Ī time of celebration, reunion and remembrance He added: “With a changing local, regional and global landscape, we need a new generation of leaders, and especially of the young, to bring about change and make us fit for purpose for a world in which all can thrive in.” (Read Prof Shih’s full speech here. As an accelerator, mindfulness is conceived as either mediating or moderating the effect between input and out variables. ![]() "'We-orientation' is now required of leaders and citizens, and they must urgently harness the entrepreneurial passions of 'I-orientation' to serve people, solve collective problems and share the benefits.” When mindfulness is used as a prerequisite, then it is treated as an exogeneous variable in various areas of investigation (i.e., Fichman & Melville, 2014 Leung et al., 2014 Teo et al., 2011). Like the post-millennium era, today the world is faced with new challenges, such as climate change and social inequity – both of which are crises of the collective and the social – which require business leaders and entrepreneurs with a ‘we-orientation’ to bring about inclusive growth. It was with this in mind that he articulated his vision of NUS becoming Singapore’s Silicon Valley like Stanford was for the world-renowned technology hub, adding that the University would be “a knowledge enterprise that transcends boundaries” with NUS Enterprise as its vehicle. He recalled the inspiring story of how NUS Enterprise was established around the time when Singapore was facing the impact of events like the Asian Financial Crisis and September 11 and had to restructure its economy into one that was knowledge-based. Prof Shih paid tribute to the dreamers and adventurers whose vision and daring have carried NOC thus far, such as the late Prof Jacob Phang, the founding CEO of NUS Enterprise Dr Lily Chan, the second CEO of NUS Enterprise Assoc Prof Teo Chee Leong, the founding Director of NOC and Prof Wong Poh Kam, the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre’s founding Director. Nine NUS-supported start-ups have become unicorns, while NOC alumni have founded more than 1,000 start-ups. Today, NOC has a community of more than 3,600 alumni, with over 15 entrepreneurial hubs across the globe. Prof Shih was also NUS President and Vice Chancellor from 2000 to 2008. In his opening speech, the Guest-of-Honour, NOC founder University Professor Shih Choon Fong, highlighted the early roots of NOC and BLOCK71 and the extensive journey embarked on by the two initiatives. “Do we win the future again, or lose it?”
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