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26 May 2009

NRF dishes out S$22m to turn Varsities into Entrepreneurial Hubs

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I caught this a week late via a tweet by my pal Jeffrey.  The deep-pocketed National Research Foundation (NRF) has set aside S$50 million to create the University Innovation Fund (UIF), and has handed out the first S$22 million to NUS (S$9m), NTU (S$6.5m) and SMU(S$6.5m).  The funds for UIF came from the S$360 million [...]

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19 December 2008

KRDL: Interview with Professor Wong Lim Soon

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Following the breadcrumbs that resulted from my intial inquiry into KRDL, I had the fortune of meeting with Professor Wong Lim Soon, Head of the School of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He had agreed to spend an hour with me to share with me what he remembers about KRDL. Ever the [...]

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6 August 2008

‘Deep’ Engineering: an Endangered species in Singapore?

I just got off a call with a certain Google executive looking at merger-and-acquisition opportunities in Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. Google tends to prefer deals that feed into search, traffic and user generation of content. After hearing about Google’s acquisition strategy, I found myself having to come up with something smart to say after [...]

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