S&T Strategies of Six Countries Implications for the United States (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Its efforts toward development of dual-use technologies target water purification, biotechnology, and renewable energy. Singapore is vulnerable to unfavorable swings in the global economy, and its internal capacity to handle internationaliza tion, increasing individual independence, a culturally diverse international workforce, and a possible intrusion of terrorism could challenge the realization of national S&T objectives.
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These panels have the attention of the government at the highest levels and ensure that the work is well supported and that the choices meet international standards. Indeed Singapore has embraced international input into its S&T development at all levels, and human capital has possibly made a greater impact than the financial support from global corporations.
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These are aging, renewable energy, climate change and sustainability, urbanization, infectious diseases, food security, and water supplies. In particular, the country wants to become a major economic powerhouse by finding innovative solutions to its identified challenges and selling the knowledge it has developed.
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One example is the use of congestion control, a system where drivers purchase access to busy roads during peak times, for traffic management. Singapore led major world cities in implementing this economi cally driven means of controlling traffic (Gopinath Menon, 2002)
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Education in Singapore is highly centralized and highly valued. Over the past decade, state initiatives have established standards for education at the pre-college level that require proficiency in English, inclusion of the religious schools, and centralized training for teachers and school principals.
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Singapore faces future challenges to balancing its current, tightly controlled culture with the influx of foreigners, new ideas, more highly educated citizenry, and potential for terrorist attack. Singapore is taking full advantage of its highly centralized government to push advanced innovation-based development as a means to improve the standard of living of its citizens and to ensure military and economic security.
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Written comments to the committee from Dr. Francis Yeoh, Chief Operating Officer, Prime Minister's Office, National Research Foundation, Singapore.
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