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The Economic Development Board (EDB) is the lead government agency responsible for planning and executing economic strategies to enhance Singapore’s position as a global hub for business and investment. We are the one-stop agency that facilitates and supports local and foreign investors in both the manufacturing and services sectors as they seek more value-creating operations, higher sustainable returns and new business opportunities.

Singapore commands global leadership positions in many areas. EDB is expanding and extending existing industry clusters, as well as exploring new growth areas to create good jobs and secure Singapore’s future competitiveness. Our emphasis is on capital-intensive, knowledge-intensive and innovation-intensive activities. EDB is constantly identifying new business areas to develop both in terms of new technologies as well as new consumer demands, such as our 'clean and green' focus - environmental technologies, urban solutions and clean energy, lifestyle, healthcare and wellness. EDB is also expanding our geographical reach, such as Middle East, in addition to North America, Europe, Japan, China, India and ASEAN.

For more information on how EDB can help in your business and investment, please visit www.sedb.com

McKinsey & Company is a management-consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organisations make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the past eight decades, the Firm’s primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organisation’s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management. With consultants deployed from 89 offices in 50 countries, McKinsey advises companies on strategic, operational, organisational and technological issues. The firm has extensive experience in all major industry sectors and primary functional areas as well as in-depth expertise in high-priority areas for today’s business leaders.

SMA is an unparalleled research and education enterprise between three highly regarded technology, science and engineering universities.

A collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), SMA attracts and retains the world’s best graduate talents by offering them an unrivalled research and learning experience through joint teaching and supervision that transcends borders.

SMA programmes are designed to support Singapore’s high-tech industries and remain relevant to global trends. Its graduate students and researchers work closely with industry to solve real-life research challenges and present innovative solutions that reflect the very latest in technology and science.