SINGAPORE is setting up a hub for talent development and is seeking business schools, institutions and corporations to form a cluster at one-north, at Buona Vista, to help achieve this goal.
The initiative – called Singapore Link – unveiled by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday is aimed at anchoring Singapore as the regional centre for developing talent and leadership training.
Link, short for Leadership Initiative for building Networks and Knowledge, wants to attract big-name business schools, companies and ‘corporate universities’ to work together on talent development in an Asian context.
Corporate universities refer to multinationals like Citigroup, GE and UBS which have their own corporate schools to train employees for management roles.
The Economic Development Board (EDB), which is driving the Singapore Link initiative, said the Link ‘campus’ – the pool of institutions involved – will be run in a similar way to Biopolis. Continue reading
