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22 August 2009

NRF awards S$4m to 16 Proof-of-Concept projects

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Hot off the press – National Research Foundation (NRF) announces that it has awarded a total of S$4 million in Proof-of-Concept (POC) grants to 16 projects from the institutes of higher learning.

Total of 91 proposals received from local universities, polytechnics and UniSIM; 27 (29.6% of submitted proposals) were shortlisted for further review, out of which [...]

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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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