From traffic management to digital health, to teaching robots in schools and highways for drones, Singapore is a major global innovation hotspot, home to some of the world's most important technology companies and startups and research centers at the frontier of innovation.
Singapore's growth in innovation is the result of a far-sighted strategy of investment in R&D and attraction of companies, capital and skills promoted especially in the last 40 years. Since 1980, the Economic Development Board of Singapore, with the mission to make the city-state an international reference point for innovation and high-tech manufacturing, decided to focus on a development strategy focused on knowledge economy and human capital intensive sectors. Singapore is now the fourth largest high-tech exporting country in the world, the number of researchers has more than doubled in the last 15 years and its port is now the second largest in the world in terms of volume of commercial traffic.
During this Webinar Live we will deepen the strengths, opportunities and development potential of Singapore's innovation ecosystem: we will talk about how Singapore represents the key to access the markets of South East Asia, what peculiarities of the ecosystem Menarini has benefited from in opening a research center in Singapore and what model and process of collaboration has been initiated with the various institutions and companies in the area.