Cover Story: Global Entrepreneurship

• Building Innovation-Driven Enterprises
  Despite starting its enterprise push only in the last decade, Singapore has already seen encouraging results in its various initiatives.

• Entrepreneurship Rising in Singapore
  Early-stage entrepreneurial rates in Singapore have risen to a record 7.2% in 2005.

• Giving Wings to Innovations in the Public Sector
  The Enterprise Challenge in Singapore spurs new ideas in the civil service.

• Going beyond Networking
  BioSingapore, a trade association for biotech companies, moves beyond networking events.

• Cultivating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
  The National University of Singapore injects a more entrepreneurial dimension into education and research.

• Marrying Technology and Health
  Swedish centre brings together experts in technology and health to solve medical problems.

• Setting Up for Success
  Successful firms have certain common traits.

• Effective Drug and Supplement Delivery
  Singapore-developed transdermal delivery technology translates into a continuous stream of popular healthcare products.

• Two-in-One Biodegradable Stent
  Biodegradable stent delivers drugs with minimal side effects.

• Tapping External Innovation
  DSM Nutritional Products outsources innovation.

• Biosensors Using Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
  University spin-off offers biosensors exploiting improved nanosensor technologies.

• Rapid Design Generation
  Singapore software allows the creation of thousands of designs within minutes.

• Stranger in a Biometric Domain
  French technopreneur chooses Singapore to develop and market biometrics solutions.

• Transplanting the Silicon Valley Experience to Singapore
  Successful entrepreneur transfers his knowledge back home.

• "Ideas Lab" Springs from Singapore-India Connection
  IT start-up sees tremendous opportunity in web-related services.

• Global from Day One
  D.I.Y. editing software organises raw video clips into MTV-style "muvees."

• Ingredients of Innovation
  tenCube eliminates the pain of lost mobile phones.

• Informatisation for an E-Economy in China
  A returnee reaps informatisation opportunities that abound in China.

• Return of the Web
  dot.com crash has revitalised web innovation.

• Banking on Singapore Enterprise
  Opportunities and incentives prompt a venture capitalist to set up base in the Lion City.

• Growing Biomedical Fledglings
  BD's BioVenture Centre incubates start-ups.

• An Entrepreneur's Unique Virtues
  Successful entrepreneurs have unique values that give them a business edge.

• Nurturing Inventors
  Intellectual capitalist invests in good ideas.

• Exploiting Wireless in Medical Services
  Wireless and mobile communication helps define a new trend in healthcare services.

• Nanobiomechanics -- An Emerging Technology to Study Human Diseases
  Nanomeasurement with optical tweezers rated among top-ten emerging technologies.

• Breeding Seahorses and Giant Clams
  Stock-enhancement technology for Singapore's seahorses and giant clams.

Departments

• Editorial
  Enterprising Singapore.

• In Brief
  Innovative highlights in various fields.

• Industry Updates
  Significant developments in industry.

• Viewpoint
  Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?
  Local entrepreneur believes the island nation already possesses the ingredients for its own unique brand.

• Calendar

• Advertiser Index

• Spotlights
  Engaging Callers Globally
  Skype CEO and founder Niklas Zennström gives valuable insight on a billion-dollar enterprise.

• A Rebel with a Scientific Cause
  Yuan-Tseh Lee, the first Taiwan-born Nobel Prize laureate, talks frankly about how Asia can raise its educational and research levels.