workshops microelectronics have made it a decade ago, the fortunes of the city-state have moved to China or Vietnam. Singapore is now dreaming of knowledge capital in Asia.
Nothing is too good to attract foreigners. Universities brand new, modern laboratories, as many green spaces in the middle than around the city. And now tourism activities that begin to grow. Lim Chuan Poh
, head of the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research, located at the heart of the new revolutionary Fusionopolis, and familiarly known here as "A * Star, does not mince words. "We must do better than everybody because we're smaller than everyone," says he, with a team of 3,000 people and a budget of 5.4 billion Singapore dollars (3 billion) government-guaranteed for the next five years. "What we want, we is doing something totally different, drawing specialists from around the world. The multinational ¬ ity in Singapore, is a question of survival. "
A Gallup study, published last November, also gives reason to the city-state. Singapore and Japan head the list of countries where young people dream of moving. She said that Singapore "will see its population triple if anyone wanted to come could". And Labour Minister Gan Kim Yong, insisted each time he gets the chance to "Environment and human capital that more than elsewhere to develop a career here."
The country champion growth in Asia last year, with GDP rising by 14.7%, no longer wants to be content with its strategic location at the mouth of the Strait of Malacca. He wants to diversify ¬ up its capabilities in high technology, biotechnology and technology related to the environment. "Our universities are mobilized to prepare the best ¬ ¬ brain to meet the challenges that will arise in Asia and to find solutions that conviennen t", recalled the end of September 2010 the Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on the occasion of a summit on the future management in Singapore.
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