evolution and rapid development of Singapore's biotechnology industries. We briefly describe the history of this new knowledge …-intensive industry in Singapore, why and how it was propagated and current achievements in terms of outputs. We do also a closer look at …, leading politicians, experienced civil servants and state bureaucrats with vast experiences in Singapore's powerful government …

In the beginning of the 1990s, Singapore's government identified the local production of global knowledge as field of … factors of production that - besides knowledge - Singapore can offer. As a small country with less than 4m inhabitants, little …). This paper attempts to outline this push towards knowledge production and the positioning of Singapore as a knowledge hub …