Centre for Innovation and Enterprise
The Centre for Innovation and Enterprise (CIE) aims to nurture innovative mindsets and instil lifelong skills that will allow students to flourish in the business arena. This is done through our unique One-Day, One-Problem™ Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach in our education pedagogy.
CIE offers Organisational Behaviour which furnishes students with conceptual frameworks about how people - as individuals and as groups – behave within organisations and Entrepreneurship which exposes students to basic business concepts and functions. For students interested to further their business knowledge, CIE also supports and offers a host of business elective modules to higher-year students from the various Schools and Centres in RP including Business Finance, Business Law, Business Statistics, Consumer Psychology, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Human Resource Management, Macroeconomics, Management Accounting, Marketing, Microeconomics, and Sales Management.
Besides classroom learning, CIE has created a number of platforms to promote Entrepreneurship mindset and training to all students in Republic Polytechnic (RP). A student-led entrepreneurial initiative, the Student Urbane Initiative (SUI!) Shop allows RP students to experiment with new business ideas in a retail setting exposing them to a full spectrum of establishing, managing and sustaining a real-life retail business. The Market Research Laboratory is a first-in-class laboratory setup to support research and development and curricular activities in RP.
Students can also sign up with any of the 4 business-related Interest Groups (IG) managed by CIE; InVogue IG, Youth Entrepreneurship IG, Investment and Finance IG and Marketing IG. The IGs offer students the opportunity to organise bazaar fairs, hear insightful talks by well-known local entrepreneurs, go on excursions to external organisations, and participate in business competitions under the tutelage of CIE staff.
Director:
Warren Wang
Staff:
Staff list for Centre for Innovation and Enterprise
Diploma Programme:
Diploma in Consumer Behaviour and Research New!
Website:
http://www.rp.edu.sg/cie