Originally posted by robertteh:
Neglecting engineering excellence is the result of leaders predisposition to laws and legalistic governance. Good and competitive governing of a country now depends more on our leaders' abilities to think, breathe and sleep technologies.
Do any one of the new MPs and ministers excel in these fields?
Those who excel and have true passion in these areas will be technopreneurs or R&D Directors, or even just some R&D engineers somewhere. Few would choose to be politicians.
When I read that our minister(s) had to visit Switzerland/euporean countries to come back with lessons that Spore future is in R&D, esp those D with relevance to the commercial world. I really want to laugh.
So it takes some million dollar a yr salary minister(s) to realise that only now?!?
I think almost everyone in the engineering field know these.
On a simliar note, it takes the PAP so many years just to realise
that private sector is very important in contributing to a nations overall employement.
MNCs are not going to transfer real technology to you and
will leave here for China, India for cost reasons
(living std too high, another major problem that PAP had caused).
So those pro-GLC policies had been deeply flawed.
Too late? They have already impeded the growth of many
potential local companies by having GLC compete unfairly with them in the past.
In the process, they had created a culture where everyone just want to work for GLCs and MNCs. Not startups.
Wait..who is going to start a tech startup in the first place,
when non-profit Government-linked Defence agencies, Astar institutes are paying engineers so well with tax-payers money?!?
And MNCs too, with its prestige and reasonably good pay.
Where than, do you see our technology-based companies blossoming?
With backing schemes from government-linked institutes like Astar?
Well. Thats another story and analysis.
Ps: Apologies for bringing out other topics on this thread.
The coming GE make all these relevant huh?
