BBC claim singapore most innovative city in Asia

[singveld]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21766274

Singapore has been labelled the most innovative city in Asia, according to a two-year survey across 16 urban centres in the region.

The company behind the research paper is the corporate advisory group Solidiance, which ranked cities according to human talent, knowledge creation, technology, government and global integration.

Damien Duhamel is Managing Partner for the Asia Pacific at Solidiance, and he explained what it is that Singapore does better than so many other Asian cities.

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Hello BBC, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul in Asia too. No way singapore better than tokyo.

 

[johnny333]

Is it because of Innovative accounting

 

[songsongpunggol]

like legalising corruption.

 

[escher]

like legalising corruption.

Using the BILLIONS he raped from all of us to fund those fucking groups to talk talk talk sinkapore high high high.

 

[greenies]

Innovative in what criteria?

What we can see is most of the landmark old buildings are rebuilt, thus the City look new (means innovative???).
All over the World, you never see a city with many new things in short period of time.

Wonder Sinkies do not have emotional attachment because all their memory lanes were gone with the wind (innovation).

 

[garlic]

Which other country in asia has ERP and COE? No?... the report is 100% right...

 

[Semaj2357]

Which other country in asia has ERP and COE? No?... the report is 100% right...

Well, that's the innovation, knowledge (and wealth) creation etc that they come up with to get the acclaim. No points for guessing where and whose pockets are being lined-up...

 

[peppertail]

Innovative in what criteria?

What we can see is most of the landmark old buildings are rebuilt, thus the City look new (means innovative???).
All over the World, you never see a city with many new things in short period of time.

Wonder Sinkies do not have emotional attachment because all their memory lanes were gone with the wind (innovation).

You can find all the details here: http://www.asiainnovativecities.com/

This study was conducted to identify the most innovative cities within the Asia Pacific region to help industry players assess the most attractive places where they can plant and grow their business. It is designed to determine whether a particular city has built an effective innovation ecosystem.

We use six main categories to measure each city’s level of innovativeness: human talent, knowledge creation, technology, society, government, as well as global integration. These key criteria are inspired by Richard Florida’s Creative Class & Creative Economy, which identifies the relationships between what a particular location has to offer and the amount of talent attracted to that same location.

Solidiance identified sixteen notable urban centers in Asia Pacific and included them in this study, and as a result of our comprehensive assessment and analysis, the Top 5 most innovative cities in Asia Pacific are as follows: Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, and Auckland. The Top 3 cities were very closely ranked and a “photoshoot” was needed to allocate the ‘Gold medal’ to Singapore. This means this ranking is likely to change in the future.

As we distinguish the study’s key takeaways further, we suggest that what makes a favorable innovation habitat is, a proper incorporation of factors across categories:
•Rich availability of educated and skillful human talent, enabled by diversity and life amenity
•Knowledge creation produced by the tertiary education institutes, firms, and government
•Proper level of city livability and the tolerance that its society possesses towards deviant norms and failure, along with their ability to sustain culture and value
•Technology advancement and innovation ecosystem facilitated by the government
•Favorable regulatory framework set by the government to sustain the city system
•Global integration and the city’s orientation towards the future indicated by a high level of the city’s connectivity and environmental sustainability

 

[greenies]

Thanks, do hope those innovative things would help poor and mid-level earners...

But but... To be innovative, we imported many FTs. Assuming they were top 10% in their own countries, EU, US, China, India, Phillippines, etc. how our poor Sinkies to compete with them?

PMETs ---> we have top 10% real talent FTs.
Bottom/ poor levels ---> cheap and abundant FTs.
Hard to find place for locals to beat them unless Gov. policies to tweak.

You can find all the details here: http://www.asiainnovativecities.com/

This study was conducted to identify the most innovative cities within the Asia Pacific region to help industry players assess the most attractive places where they can plant and grow their business. It is designed to determine whether a particular city has built an effective innovation ecosystem.

We use six main categories to measure each city’s level of innovativeness: human talent, knowledge creation, technology, society, government, as well as global integration. These key criteria are inspired by Richard Florida’s Creative Class & Creative Economy, which identifies the relationships between what a particular location has to offer and the amount of talent attracted to that same location.

Solidiance identified sixteen notable urban centers in Asia Pacific and included them in this study, and as a result of our comprehensive assessment and analysis, the Top 5 most innovative cities in Asia Pacific are as follows: Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, and Auckland. The Top 3 cities were very closely ranked and a “photoshoot” was needed to allocate the ‘Gold medal’ to Singapore. This means this ranking is likely to change in the future.

As we distinguish the study’s key takeaways further, we suggest that what makes a favorable innovation habitat is, a proper incorporation of factors across categories:
•Rich availability of educated and skillful human talent, enabled by diversity and life amenity
•Knowledge creation produced by the tertiary education institutes, firms, and government
•Proper level of city livability and the tolerance that its society possesses towards deviant norms and failure, along with their ability to sustain culture and value
•Technology advancement and innovation ecosystem facilitated by the government
•Favorable regulatory framework set by the government to sustain the city system
•Global integration and the city’s orientation towards the future indicated by a high level of the city’s connectivity and environmental sustainability

 

[chupacabra]

I think the report is credible. But with innovation comes the high cost, so big deal if peesai is innovative, as long as the cost keeps going up than the innovation is quite useless.

 

[Bigfuck]

It is a bad omen. Ireland was ranked most innovative before it fell flat. This is a bad omen.

 

[syed putra]

very weird all these findings.
all top innovative asian cities are english speaking.
just like all the top universities.

 

[yinyang]

It is a bad omen. Ireland was ranked most innovative before it fell flat.

No more Celtic tiger, but pussy cat. Irish paid for their excesses, real estate bubble and mismanaged finances. Blue eyes, and here's to Arthur (guiness thingy) :p

http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinio...--economy-still-haunted-by-excess-215391.html

http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/phonohan/What went wrong.pdf