Report from the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on Research

Funding For Scientific Breakthrough

Prof Low Teck Seng, CEONational Research Foundation, Singapore

Scientific Funding is risky

Unmanned Antares rocket blasting off and then bursting into flames about 11 seconds after lift-off.

Oct 2014

NASA rocket blows up with piece of Singapore research

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Diverse funding portfolio

Curiosity-driven research

Mission-oriented research

Non-thematic

Priority areas

Centre grants

Funding individuals

Fostering Inter-disciplinary Research

Towards Holistic Measures of Research Outcomes

Beyond traditional quantitative metrics

Assess long term impact

Solving Global Scientific Challenges

Thank you