A*Star's research capabilities expand to new industries
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[SINGAPORE] Singapore's research capabilities are being employed in a growing number of industries.
"We are increasingly working with new industry clusters," Lim Chuan Poh, chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), told BT, citing finance services, marine and offshore, and high-performance computing as examples.
A*Star's activities - centred in its Biopolis and Fusionopolis research hubs - focus on the biomedical, engineering and physical sciences. It has 18 research units - 10 biomedical and eight in the physical sciences.
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