Can Singapore Build Global Tech Giants?
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Dr. Tan Sian Wee, Senior Vice President (Innovation & Enterprise) at NUS
Key points:
- Success for NUS's innovation and enterprise ambitions goes far beyond the headline billion-dollar goal and A5X vision
- The biggest gap between university research and real-world impact lies in the journey from lab to market, where most brilliant ideas fail to scale
- Singapore offers DeepTech founders from Europe and the US strategic advantages as a launchpad into Asia that are often underestimated
- Nova, NUSX's new full-stack AI platform, aims to transform how universities discover which ideas are worth building companies around
- For Singapore to become a place where world-leading DeepTech companies are born and built - not just funded - deliberate steps are needed over the next five to ten years