About the Tech hub

Capabilities and Technical Services
Project Showcase
Collaboration
Courses and Seminars
Contact Information

About the Tech hub

This Hub is part of the core Technology Hubs under the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. It focuses on developing staff and students’ capabilities in technology entrepreneurship by introducing them to the entrepreneurial process of discovering, evaluating, and exploiting the opportunities with existing and/or emerging technologies into potentially viable businesses.

The hub provides a practical platform to translate technology-based ideas into business. For students, they can apply the CDIO framework and Design Thinking methodology as innovation tools to conceive and design potential products/services. In the course, students are introduced to basic business functional skills such as business developing strategy, market validation, founding team, human capital, company administration, financial management and etc, and to exploiting the projects/services into possible viable businesses. With the hub, students can continue to work on fund raising techniques to seek potential investors for their products/services and learn about how to pitch their businesses to potential investors.

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Capabilities and Technical Services

The Technology to Business (T2B) Hub serves as a centre to link up anyone with ideas, test out their ideas, and commercialise the ideas. The hub welcomes industrial collaborations and can provide technical consultations, trainings, project development and prototyping services to them.

For engineering support, the hub works together with seven other technology hubs from the School of EEE specialising in different technologies:

Aerospace Engineering Hub
5G & AIoT Technology Hub
Robotics, Automation and Control Hub
Power and Sustainable Energy Hub
Semicon and Electronics Hub
Biomedical Engineering Hub
Autonomous and Transportation Systems Hub

T2B also has the support of alumni and industry technopreneurs. They serve as students’ coaches/mentors, to provide the necessary advice and support to help them address technical and business challenges related to the projects. Students will also have the opportunities to work with them on projects that can be commercialized.

Programmes and Project Showcase

Students are given opportunities to participate in selected Overseas Programmes. Some projects to translate technology-based ideas to commercial viability proofing are also listed below.

1 Overseas Entrepreneurship Immersion Programme

Nine EEE students participated in the Overseas Entrepreneurship Immersion Programme (OEIP) to Bangkok in 2023. Objectives of the trip:

To allow SP students and staff to gain regional entrepreneurial exposure and cross-cultural learning beyond the classroom through interaction with Thailand’s students entrepreneurs and educators;
To provide opportunities and exposure for students to be introduced to Thailand’s Economy, Start-up and Tech eco-system;
To strengthen the development of students’ social capital relationships and build overseas networks via networking sessions with start-up communities;
To support staff in their scope of work such as teaching curriculum, projects and mentorship through I&E exposure; and
To provide networking opportunities

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This programme is coordinated by Singapore Polytechnic International.

2 Penta Hack! 2023

Students won second prize in Penta Hack!, a competition organised by AI Student User Groups from all 5 polytechnics. The winning project is an AI based assistive technology tool to aid ADHD and Dyslexia children in their linguistic and holistic development with 3 solutions:

An Engaging Gesture Based Assistive Educational Tool to facilitate multi-sensory engagement for children with ADHD and Dyslexia.
A Gamified Gesture Based game control for children with ADHD and Dyslexia to play any online educational game in the world that uses W A S D keys.
An inhouse developed educational GPT chatbot that will give personalised answers.

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