October 5, 2009
Singapore: Teaming Up With Foreign Universities for Innovative Research
Norman Ng, on Asia, for The Chronicle
The government of Singapore brought over Rohan Abeyaratne, former head of mechanical engineering at MIT, to direct a joint center to tackle environmental and health problems: "The kinds of things they're doing are quite bold."
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Norman Ng, on Asia, for The Chronicle
The government of Singapore brought over Rohan Abeyaratne, former head of mechanical engineering at MIT, to direct a joint center to tackle environmental and health problems: "The kinds of things they're doing are quite bold."
In most developed countries, the government's calling in a foreign university to carry out a national research program might inspire protests from local universities.
But in Singapore, it's how things are done.
And so when Singapore's National Research Foundation—the city-state's equivalent to the National Science Foundation in the United States—tapped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to join it in building a multimillion-dollar center to tackle pressing
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