TechLicensing Fair 2008 :: Energy & Environment
Date: 20th November 2008, Thursday
Venue: Level 4, Matrix Building,30 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138671
Thank you for your overwhelming supporting at the TechLicensing Fair 2008 :: Energy & Environment on 20th November 2008. The fair displayed an exciting list of emerging technologies available for licensing, in categories relating to green buildings, clean energy, waste management, clean water, photovoltics and power management. There were also Technology Licensing Workshops where licensing professionals share their experiences and best practices in technology commercialization. To read more about the event, click here.
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Global Entrepreneurship Week
Date: 17th ~ 23rd November 2008
Global Entrepreneurship Week (The Week) is a celebration of innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity. Through a coordinated effort with more than 70 countires, the world will celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit in hopes of inspiring a new generation of young entrepreneurs.
NUS Enterprise and Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) are proud and excited to jointly host the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Singapore from 17th - 23rd Nov 2008. Click here for more details.
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In its annual review of top personalities to watch for the coming year (Volume 323, 2 January 2009), SCIENCE notes the recently opened Fusionopolis that is Singapore’s icon for public and private research in interactive media, physical sciences, engineering, and technology. The magazine says that the challenge for Mr Lim is to help “Singapore make a name for itself in information technologies and engineering the way it has in biomedical research”.
Singapore Research and Development Pushes Forward
24th December 2008
Singapore's overall expenditure on research and development (R&D) grew an "unprecedented" 26.5 percent to hit S$6.3 billion (US$4.3 billion) in 2007, the country's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), announced.
21st November 2008
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) announced that the government is enhancing its business financing schemes to support an additional S$2.3 billion in loans to help local firms gain access to credit in this current economic slowdown. The enhancements include increasing loan quantums, raising government risk sharing of loan defaults and extending business financing schemes to all local enterprises.
8th November 2008
LONG known as a getaway for nature lovers, Pulau Ubin may soon acquire a new reputation — as a model “green” island. The plan calls for the island to be powered entirely by clean and renewable energy. The island’s residents currently run their own diesel-powered generators.
6th November 2008
MP Biomedicals LLC, a global life science and diagnostics product manufacturer and supplier, announces the signing of an agreement with A*STAR’s Exploit Technologies on licensing rights for the "Virtual Reaction Chamber" (VRC), a patent portfolio developed by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), which covers a revolutionary new way of performing sample preparation and qRT-PCR in a droplet.
29th October 2008
16 technology start-ups are now one step closer to bringing their ideas to market. They emerged from more than 200 submissions to win a competitive grant under the Technology Enterprise Commercialisation Scheme (TECS), garnering $6 million grant support for their projects.
15th September 2008
The National Research Foundation (NRF) announced today that it has made available S$75 million to support proof-of-concept grants (POC scheme). These grants are available to institutes of higher learning, public research institutes and SMEs to support proof-of-concept development and aims to encourage R&D into new ideas with the view towards commercialisation.
1st September 2008
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have received another boost in their efforts to use infocomm to grow their business, with the launch of two new initiatives under the Infocomm Development Authority's (IDA) SME infocomm adoption programme.
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