Phon Too Heng
Biochemistry Department, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119260.
Bioessays. 2003 Sep;25(9):913-7. doi: 10.1002/bies.10346.
Singapore has a highly developed economy and has been recognized to have one of the best business environments in Asia. Her success is based largely on focused developments of key industries in traded services and manufacturing sectors. The challenge for Singapore is to utilize her small human resource to transform the present economy to a more knowledge-intensive economy. Singapore has recently embarked on the ambitious goal of developing Biomedical Sciences as an industry. Educating the government and the public on various aspects of this new industry was identified as one of the essential steps towards this goal. The challenge was to inspire non-biologists to embrace the life sciences. This review describes how a series of workshops were developed to address the needs and the challenges of educating the public and the government.
新加坡拥有高度发达的经济，被公认为亚洲拥有最佳商业环境的地区之一。其成功很大程度上基于对贸易服务和制造业关键产业的重点发展。新加坡面临的挑战是利用其有限的人力资源将当前经济转变为知识密集型经济。新加坡最近开始了将生物医学科学发展成为一个产业的宏伟目标。让政府和公众了解这个新产业的各个方面被确定为实现这一目标的关键步骤之一。挑战在于激发非生物学家接受生命科学。本综述描述了如何举办一系列研讨会来满足教育公众和政府的需求以及应对相关挑战。
