innovation
Singapore teachers will now have a "living laboratory" to experiment with evolving technologies before trying them out in their schools.
Being innovative is the driving ambition for many companies. The desire to discover the next ‘big idea’ that will take the world by storm is what keeps the wheels of global enterprise turning. By shifting a business’ IT security to the cloud, managers can be freed to innovate.
Business establishments at the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) economic zones are most innovative and have the highest expenditures for research and development.
Singapore Polytechnic (SP) has launched its own cloud computing center, making it the first educational institute in Asia-Pacific to provide students with cloud computing lessons in an operational data center environment.
A recent survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) showed that companies that describe their innovation strategies as very effective produce almost twice as many new products or NMEs (new molecular entities) than other companies.
About 3,500 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) upgraded their business in 2010, creating close to 16,000 new jobs and generating value-added of $4.8 billion. This year, SMEs remained focused on productivity improvements, capabilities upgrading and growth as the enterprise development agency SPRING Singapore continues to support these initiatives.
To hone the skills of future developers in the mobile services and applications space, Nanyang Polytechnic, Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia and Singapore-based telco Starhub have collaborated to launch a Mobile Inno Sphere Center.
To hone the skills of future developers in the mobile services and applications space, Nanyang Polytechnic and Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia, along with Starhub, has collaborated to set up a Mobile Inno Sphere Center at the university.
Public sectors across the region saw the crisis as a time to fast track deployments. TNS report concludes that large scale digitization projects are still hot in developing countries such as India and China. Smart grid projects on the rise.
According to experts at the Euro India ICT cooperation Conference 2009, Indian companies are not leveraging their innovations to hoist themselves up the value chain.
