The School won The Enterprise Challenge Award in November of 2000 from the Prime Minister's office for the project titled: Educational Innovation for the Knowledge Based Economy.

The Enterprise Challenge Award recognizes efforts in innovation that serve as examples that others can learn and emulate.  This was an award that the Diploma in Marketing team won for driving PBL as an innovative methodology that could help change the face of the graduate and meet the new challenges in the working world.

In November 2003, Temasek Polytechnic received The Enterprise Challenge Shield from the Prime Minister’s Office for successfully bringing to fruition the development of a Problem-Based Learning Education Model.  The award recognizes the most outstanding team whose project has created the highest new value to the Public Service.  The PBL Education Model developed by Temasek Polytechnic was considered to have service-wide application and have been successfully tested.  The award testifies to the success of Temasek Polytechnic in its PBL initiative. 

Final year marketing students have for two consecutive years (2001 & 2002), become the Asia-Pacific champions for the integrated marketing communication proposals in the International Advertising Association competitions held in New York.

In the meantime, staff from the Temasek Business School has published articles and books to advance and share the PBL experience. The Thinking Taskforce, the key driving force of PBL in Temasek Business School, aims to encourage research circles and get the faculty committed to research and new discoveries in PBL.