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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Singapore has also declared that it aspires to be the education center of Asia, both to attract outstanding people who will stay in the country and also to bring income into the country. It has announced plans to open an elite university, which will have a much larger percentage of foreign students than the premier National University of Singapore.
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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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program has been started to aid small- to medium-sized enterprises with technical assistance and manpower support, financial assistance, and overseas marketing. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Singapore is a highly centralized, stable, agile country that has become a regional hub for education and innovation.
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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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