Wong Poh Kam

Wong Poh Kam is Emeritus Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS), and was a tenured Full Professor at the NUS Business School and Professor (by courtesy) at the LKY School of Public Policy until end June, 2022. He obtained two BSc.’s, an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT. He has published extensively in leading international refereed journals on entrepreneurship and innovation including Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Research Policy, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Scientometrics. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, he was ranked among the top 2% most highly cited researchers globally by AD Scientific Index. He has also consulted widely on innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem development policies for various international agencies including the World Bank, OECD and Asian Development Bank, various government agencies in Singapore including MTI, EDB, ASTAR, Min. of Law, MPA and IPOS, and many private corporations in Asia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Oxford University, Korea University and GRIPS Japan, and a Pacific Leadership Fellow at UC San Diego.

Besides his academic position, he was concurrently the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre from August 2001 until July 2019, where he created or provided academic leadership for several high-impact experiential entrepreneurship education programs, including the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) program, the Technopreneurship Minor program (open to all undergraduates in NUS), the NRF-funded National Lean Launchpad (LLP) Program on technology commercialization for professors and graduate students in the four leading universities in Singapore, and the annual NUS Enterprise Summer Program on Entrepreneurship. He also advised the NUS Enterprise CEO on the strategic development of NUS Enterprise Incubator (NEI) program, including Block71 in Singapore, Indonesia, Suzhou and San Francisco. He has served on the investment committee of NUS Enterprise since its founding, and was a mentor to many tech start-ups incubated by NUS Enterprise.

He initiated StartUp@Singapore, the largest annual business plan competition in Singapore (1999-2012), and the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia, the largest annual social entrepreneurship competition in Asia (2013-18). He also initiated and co-chaired the Modern Aging Accelerator, a joint program of NUS Enterprise and Access Health (2017-18), and the Port Innovation Ecosystem Re-imagined (PIER71), a joint program of NUS Enterprise and the Maritime Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore (2018-19).

An entrepreneur prior to joining academia, he has been an active angel investor in tech start- ups in Singapore, Silicon Valley and China. He was the founding chairman of Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia), and is an advisor to iGlobe Partners, a global VC fund based in Singapore. He received the Public Administration Medal (Silver) Award from the Singapore Government in 2013 for his contribution to entrepreneurship education in Singapore, and the “Entrepreneur for the World” Award (Educator Category) from the World Entrepreneurship Forum in 2015. He has been a board member of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) since 2016.

Google Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?hl=en&user=6VjxTQMAAAAJ
Downloadable publications: http://nus.academia.edu/PohKamWong
AD Scientific Index Rank: https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/poh-kam-wong/411346