Can Singapore Build Global Tech Giants?

EU-Startups Podcast · Oct 1, 2026 · 20m · transcript

Dr. Tan Sian Wee, Senior Vice President (Innovation & Enterprise) at NUS

Key points:

Success for NUS's innovation and enterprise ambitions goes far beyond the headline billion-dollar goal and A5X vision

The biggest gap between university research and real-world impact lies in the journey from lab to market, where most brilliant ideas fail to scale

Singapore offers DeepTech founders from Europe and the US strategic advantages as a launchpad into Asia that are often underestimated

Nova, NUSX's new full-stack AI platform, aims to transform how universities discover which ideas are worth building…