Sarah Cheah

Dr Sarah Cheah is Associate Professor with the National University of Singapore Business School, with research and practice in strategic foresight, business model innovation and commercialization of emerging technologies relating to alternative proteins and novel food. She has led consulting practicum and research studies on innovation with business federations, chambers of commerce, multi-national corporations (MNC) and venture capital firm. She is advisor to robotics programme office in robotics technology roadmapping and commercialization strategy. Sarah has provided executive training for MNCs and public policymakers from Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and China.

Education Qualifications

• Graduate Diploma, Management Research, University of South Australia
• Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Electrical, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• MBA, Banking & Finance, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• PhD, Business and Management, University of South Australia

Research Interest

• Technological Foresight And Futures
• R&d Comercialization
• Early-stage Technology Development
• Entrepreneurship
• National Innovation System
• Technological Innovation
• Open Innovation

Academic Experience

• Adjunct Associate Professor, NUS Business School (MS, Business Analytics), 2013 - 2014
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, NUS Business School (MBA/Technopreneurship Minor Program), 2006 - 2013

Corporate Experience

• Scientific Panel Member, The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM), 2014 - current
• Program, Director (former), NUS Entrepreneurship Centre3-M Innovation Program
• Consultant (former), A*STAR Science & Engineering Research Council Futurescape 2025
• Head, China Desk Research Unit (former), International Operations, IE Singapore
• Manager, Business & Program Management Office, Business Development Manager, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (former), Hewlett Packard
• Head, Training & Certification Workgroup (former), Technology Transfer Network
• Deputy Director (former), Traineeship for Technology Transfer Management (T3M) Program by A*STAR and WDA (former)
• Vice President (former), A* STAR commercialization

Recognition & Awards

• NUS Case Grant on “Sustainability Innovation”, $5k, 13 Apr 2022 – 12 Apr 2023 - 2022
• NUS Case Grant on “Social Innovation”, $5k - 2021
• Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund on “Family Structure and Work”, $19.9k - 2019
• NUS Case Grant on “Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, $5k - 2018
• NUS Case Grant on “Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, $5k - 2018
• Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation Research Funding on “Coworking for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Study”, $103,850 - 2018
• Ministry of Education Tertiary Education Research Fund on “The Effects of Feedback on Project-based Learning”, $117,260, 1 Apr 2018 – 31 Mar 2020 - 2018
• Singapore Maritime Institute Fund, “Benchmarking Maritime Research Technology and Innovation Cluster”, $134.4k - 2016
• Singapore Maritime Institute Funding on “Benchmarking Maritime Research Technology and Innovation Cluster”, $134.4k - 2016
• Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund on “Innovation and Productivity of Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises”, $40k, 14 Oct 2016 – 13 Oct 2018 - 2016
• USPC-NUS Grant, “NUS-USPC Exchange Program for Entrepreneurs & Start-ups”, EUR30k, 1 Jun 2015-31 May 2016 - 2015
• NUS Case Grant on “Conquering the “Trough of Sorrow”, $5k - 2014
• NUS Case Grant on “Foresight”, $5k
• Best Paper Award on ‘Managing unintended reverse knowledge transfer for enhancing R&D performance of parent company', 14th IFKAD Conference 2019, Matera, Italy.
• Best Research Presentationon Policy Analytics, Workshop on Analytics for Business, Consumer and Social Insights by SMU
• NTUC Scholarship, Singapore
• PSF Scholarship, Singapore
• Prime Minister's Book Prize, Singapore
• Employee Recognition Award, Hewlett Packard
• Sales Inner Circle Honoree, Hewlett Packard