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Singapore’s RIE Landscape
Trade & Industry Education Health Ministries
R&D Funding Bodies
Economic Devt
Board
A*STAR
Academic Research Council
R&D Performers
Industry and Enterprises
A*STAR Research Institutes
Institutes of Higher
Learning
Healthcare Institutions & Academic
Medical Centres
Ministries & Other Govt
Labs
Defence
DSO National Laboratories
Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council Supported by the National Research Foundation
National Medical Research Council
(NMRC)
Ministry of Defence
NRF and
Other Ministries
and Agencies
PM’s Office
Corp Labs
Other Labs
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1991 1996 2001 2006 2011
GDP 1991 S$78.56B 2015 S$402.46B Per Capita at 1991 S$25.06K current market 2015 S$72.71 prices
GDP S$B Per Capita S$K
Singapore’s Economy from 1991 to Present
National Technology
Plan (1991-1995) S$2 billion
National Science &
Technology Plan (1996-2000) S$4 billion
Science & Technology Plan 2005
(2001-2005) S$6 billion
Science & Technology Plan 2010
(2006-2010) S$13.9 billion
Research, Innovation &
Enterprise Plan 2015
(2011-2015) S$16.1 billion
5-ye
ar
S&T
Plan
s
1991 -1999 Technology Intensive
2000 -2015 Towards a Knowledge/ Innovation
Economy
Research, Innovation &
Enterprise Plan 2020
(2016-2020) S$19.0 billion
Source: Singapore Department of Statistics
2016 -2020 Fostering Innovation &
Enterprise
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Achievements in RIE2015
RIE2015
Global R&D Hub
Established base of R&D
capabilities Fostered
international collaborations
Economic & Societal Impact
Growth of public-private partnerships
New economic activity and
growth through Strategic Research
Programmes
Growth in the innovation and
start-up ecosystem
Meeting needs of
Singaporeans
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Singapore as a Global R&D Hub
• Established strong base of R&D capabilities • Academic Medical Centres (National University Health System, and
SingHealth/Duke-NUS Medical School)
• Industry-oriented research institutes in A*STAR that straddle the spectrum from fundamental science to applied research
• Globally-competitive research-intensive universities (National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Achievements in RIE2015
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Singapore as a Global R&D Hub
• Built up a robust network of international collaborations e.g. • Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE)
– Institutional-level collaborative research that brings together Berkeley, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Hebrew University, MIT, Shanghai Jiaotong, TUM, NUS and NTU.
• Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
– E.g. Collaboration with University of Southampton’s Marine and Maritime Institute in marine and offshore
– E.g. Collaboration with RIKEN on life sciences, biotechnology and material science
Achievements in RIE2015
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Economic & Societal Impact
• Growth of public-private research partnerships • Industry Alignment Fund has catalysed formation of joint labs such as the
Keppel-NUS and ST Engineering-NTU Corporate Labs
• Formation of consortia e.g. Lux Photonics, Singapore Spintronics Consortium, Singapore Gastric Cancer Consortium
• Biopolis and Fusionopolis has supported the growth of industry in Singapore e.g. through collaborations with Novartis, Chugai Pharmaceuticals, P&G
Achievements in RIE2015
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Economic & Societal Impact
• New economic activity and growth through Strategic Research Programmes (SRPs) • Clean Water SRP has built up the water ecosystem and grown the number
of water companies to 180 (3x that in 2006)
• Clean Energy SRP attracted collaborations with key industry partners such as Elbit Systems and Johnson Matthey
• Established new Strategic Research Programmes (SRPs) in Marine & Offshore, Satellite and Virtual Singapore in RIE2015 to support continued economic growth
Achievements in RIE2015
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Created Economic Impact
• Growth in the innovation and start-up ecosystem • Technology Incubation Scheme funded more than 140 seed stage startups,
with notable companies such as iCarsClub (raised $70M of follow-on funding)
• Early Stage Venture Fund supported more than 30 Series A startups, with successful exits such as Brandtology ($31M) and YFind Technologies ($15M)
• Emergence of unicorns1 that are locally based or founded by Singaporeans (Garena and Razer)
• Singapore ranked 10th in the world (and 1st in Asia) in the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2015
Achievements in RIE2015
1The term ‘unicorn’ denotes a startup company whose valuation has exceeded $1B dollars.
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Created Societal Impact
• Meeting needs of Singaporeans • R&D through internationally competitive initiatives like the Clinical Nutrition
Research Centre (CNRC), Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) and Singapore PREconception Study of long-Term maternal and child Outcomes (S-PRESTO) could impact pregnancy management, and infant and childhood health practices
• First made-in-Singapore cancer drug to advance into clinical trials through a collaboration between A*STAR and Duke-NUS
Achievements in RIE2015
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Singapore’s RIE2020 R&D Thrusts
Closer Integration of Research Thrusts
Stronger Dynamic towards the Best Teams and Ideas
Sharper Focus on Value Creation
Better Optimised Manpower
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Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
Closer Integration of Research Thrusts
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Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME)
Strategic Goals • Support economic growth, create good jobs for
Singaporeans and prepare our economy for the future
• Strengthen linkages across public research performers and both large and small enterprises to sharpen value creation from public R&D investments
• Build capabilities where Singapore can offer a differentiated value proposition, including making strategic bets ahead of industry to position Singapore for emerging opportunities
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
To develop technological capabilities that support the growth and competitiveness of our manufacturing and engineering sectors
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AME-Relevant Programmes supported by NRF
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
Marine & Offshore Strategic Research
Programme
Addresses future technological challenges and to shift Singapore’s marine and offshore industry towards more sustainable, higher value-added activities in design and engineering
Grows Singapore’s public R&D capabilities, forge domestic and international collaborations, and develop talent for the space industry
Promotes the adoption of robotics as part of the national productivity push, as well as to promote innovation and commercialisation of robotics in Singapore
National Robotics Programme
Satellite Strategic Research Programme
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Health and Biomedical Sciences (HBMS)
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
Strategic Goals • Develop an ecosystem to translate research and improve
health outcomes
• Build a strong core and pipeline of Singapore researchers, clinician-scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors
• Focus research efforts on the 5 therapeutic areas of (i) cancers, (ii) cardiovascular diseases, (iii) diabetes mellitus and other metabolic/endocrine conditions, (iv) infectious diseases, and (v) neurological and sense disorders
• Develop the HBMS industry cluster into a vibrant ecosystem comprising multinational corporations, local enterprises and start-ups
To be a leading centre that advances human health and wellness, and creates economic value for Singapore and Singaporeans through the
pursuit of excellence in research and its applications
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HBMS-Relevant Programmes
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
HBMS Open Fund
Large Collaborative Grant Aims to bring together the best teams from all the public research performers to advance human health and wellness, and/or create economic value for Singapore and Singaporeans, through the pursuit of excellence in research and its applications
Seeks to catalyse innovative ideas and research in Singapore that can positively transform the experience of ageing in Singapore through 3 key research thrusts, (i) lengthening of health span; (ii) productive longevity; (iii) ageing in place
National Innovation Challenge on Active and
Confident Ageing
Individual Research Grant Supports basic and translational clinical research that are relevant to human health and wellness, as well as research into the causes, consequences, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of human diseases
Young Individual Research Grant YIRG is a sub-category of IRG, and a first step for new investigators to a first independent national level grant
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Urban Solutions and Sustainability (USS)
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
To develop a sustainable and liveable city through integrated solutions for Singapore and the world
Strategic Goals • Enhance the living environment and address
resource constraints through an inter-disciplinary approach at the energy-water-land nexus
• Optimise solutions to meet Singaporeans’ needs (e.g. less energy intensive seawater desalination technologies for water self-sufficiency)
• Create economic value through industry partnerships and establish Singapore as an international hub for sustainable urban solutions
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USS-Relevant Programmes
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
Capability Building Programmes
Supports the training of local research and innovation manpower in USS fields
Supports cutting-edge research with potential impact to Singapore
Supports piloting, test-bedding of new technologies in the USS space to accelerate their commercialisation and adoption USS Living Lab Initiatives
USS Competitive Research Programmes
Builds a pool of local scientists and nuclear experts with the knowledge and skills in nuclear science and engineering
Nuclear Safety Research and Education Programme
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National Innovation Challenges Aims to address national challenges in the area of land and liveability, and energy.
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Services and Digital Economy (SDE)
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
To develop, integrate and leverage Singapore’s digital innovation capabilities to meet national priorities, raise productivity and support key services, create sustainable economic opportunities and high quality jobs
Strategic Goals • Urban Mobility: Fuse traditional transport engineering with autonomous technologies, real-
time analytics, modelling & simulation to transform route planning, and dynamically manage real-time traffic events
• Healthcare ICT: Use predictive analytics and machine learning, based on real-time data collected from Internet of Things (IOT) healthcare devices, to deliver healthcare in ways that empower our seniors to enjoy active and confident ageing.
• Services Productivity: Tap the automation of knowledge work, discovery of insight through data mining and creation of innovative digital applications to improve the delivery of Government and private sector services
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SDE-Relevant Programmes
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
Smart Systems Strategic Research
Programme
Emerging Areas Research Projects Seeds R&D capabilities in new/emerging areas
Strategic Capabilities Research Centres Anchors SDE R&D expertise in our research institutes and universities for deep capability building along strategic sub-themes, by providing economies of scale and some certainty of funding
Public Sector-Led Translational R&D Centres/Projects Funds translation of R&D that is driven by demand from the public sector, to address Government needs
Private Sector-Led Translational R&D Centres/Projects Encourages R&D translation, productisation, and adoption of public R&D outcomes by private sector, including building research-industry linkages in bringing technology/IP to the market.
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SDE-Relevant Programmes
Singapore’s Strategic Technology Domains
Aims to establish a baseline 3D Singapore City Model for R&D modelling and simulations
Develops R&D expertise in cybersecurity for Singapore, and coordinate and prioritise R&D efforts in cybersecurity across agencies (Whole-of-Government Approach)
National Cybersecurity R&D Programme
Virtual Singapore Strategic Research Programme
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Renewal and Reprioritisation
• Encourage governance and funding mechanisms that “build in” renewal • Continued shift to open competitive funding, from 20% of public funding for
research in RIE2015 to 40% in RIE2020, so that we support the best teams and ideas
• Enable reprioritising of funding • Increased sizing of White Space from $1.6B in RIE2015 to $2.5B in
RIE2020 to have greater flexibility of reprioritising funding towards areas of new economic opportunities and national needs
Stronger Dynamic towards the Best Teams and Ideas
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Spurring Academic Research Excellence
Stronger Dynamic towards the Best Teams and Ideas
Strategic Goals • Sustain a broad base of capabilities with
peaks of excellence through investigator-led, and programme and centre grants
• Support the best ideas and teams with a larger proportion of competitive grant calls open to all public research performers
• Develop Singapore’s global networks and thought leadership by supporting international collaborations with leading research institutions
To build up a strong base of scientific capabilities and a pipeline of ideas that can drive the next phase of growth
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Academic Research Programmes
Spurring Academic Research Excellence
NRF Fellowship/ Investigatorship
Supports top researchers to pursue ground-breaking research in Singapore
Creates ‘peaks of excellence’ in research in the universities
Attracts established overseas-based Singaporean research leaders to relocate their research to Singapore
Returning Singaporean Scientists Scheme
Research Centres of Excellence
Supports broad-based, high-impact research through competitive funding in all S&T fields
Competitive Research Programme
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Creates a critical mass of researchers to build up capabilities in strategic areas Medium Sized Centres
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Sustaining a Strong Research Manpower Base
To build a strong research and innovation community
Strategic Goals • Sustain a robust and diverse manpower base
• Build a strong local core of researchers and develop scientific leaders
• Grow manpower with innovation and enterprise skillsets
Better Optimised Manpower
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• Global Young Scientists Summit • An international gathering in Singapore of young scientists and researchers, with
eminent science and technology leaders1 covering topics such as chemistry, physics, medicine, mathematics, computer science and engineering
• National Science Experiment • “Step Out for Science” uses a specially-designed low-cost, simple-to-use pocket
device to enable more than 100,000 students to explore sensing and Big Data technologies
Stimulate Public Interest in Science
1This includes 13 Nobel Laureates, 4 Turing Awardees, 2 Field Medalists, and 2 Millennium Technology Prize Winners.
Sustaining a Strong Research Manpower Base
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Growing a Vibrant National Innovation System
To build up a strong core of innovative enterprises that drive value creation and economic competitiveness
Strategic Goals • Provide targeted support to help firms scale
up • Foster stronger collaboration and cohesion • Encourage greater industry participation • Support domain-specific strategies
Sharper Focus on Value Creation
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Identify Pathways to Value Creation
Industry-Science Linkages
Enable Industry Growth Good Jobs
Positioning Economy For the
Future
Public R&D Spending
Manpower
Foster Vibrant Start-up Ecosystem
Infrastructure
Knowledge Creation
Value creation from R&D
Input Resources for research
& technology development
Output From research programmes,
industry engagements & commercialisation
Outcomes Results which impact the economy
Closer collaboration between research performers and industry
Strong core of innovative enterprises that drive value creation
Industry R&D Activities & Collaboration Technology Transfer Start-ups / Spin-offs
Sharper Focus on Value Creation
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Support targeted I&E initiatives and strategies that would vary from domain to domain
RIE2020 I&E schemes
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Seed Relevance
Facilitate Translation
Partner Industry
Develop Manpower
Funding for prototype development projects to demonstrate viability for market validation
Facilitate strategic R&D projects through engagement between public research performers and industry
Develop IEO capabilities and build up a strong core of I&E manpower and expertise
Industry Alignment Fund (Pre-positioning) I&E Cluster Fund
Startup Equity Co-Financing / ESVF Gap Funding TECS Innovation Infrastructure
Industry Alignment Fund (Industry Collaboration Projects) RISC IPI
Centralised IEO Core Fund GET-Up – Secondment of RSEs to industry SG-Innovate
Sharper Focus on Value Creation
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Looking Forward
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- PM Lee at the 9th RIEC Press Conference, Jan 2016
Winning the Future through Science and Technology
“RIE will continue to be important to secure our future. It contributes significantly to the economy and creates opportunities and jobs. It helps our workers to thrive amidst technological changes and globalization. It can also improve the health of our population, especially enabling our seniors to live better and healthier lives, and it can transform our urban landscape to make it more liveable and sustainable.”