{"id":88214,"date":"2018-01-22T07:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T07:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7728c699296db46055d90fb584aa3bc4"},"modified":"2018-01-22T07:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T07:50:46","slug":"news-story-director-general-gareth-davies-visit-to-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88214","title":{"rendered":"News story: Director General Gareth Davies\u2019 Visit to Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 14 and 15 December 2017, Director General Gareth Davies, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, visited Singapore. He leads on the implementation of the Industrial Strategy, including exploring linkages with Singapore\u2019s government and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from meeting Academics from National University of Singapore and Singapore Institute of Technology, he spoke with representatives from Agency for Science, Technology and Research; as well as the National Research Foundation and Singtel Innov8. The Director General shared an update on UK\u2019s Industrial Strategy and discussed the innovation landscape in UK and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>During his two days in Singapore, Director General Gareth Davies also visited Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Trade and Industry to discuss the UK-Singapore Economic and Business Partnership, building on their shared interests and strong relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Other partners that he met included the Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research of Autonomous Vehicles (CETRAN), British Chamber of Commerce, AI Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/70271\/MTI_resized.png\" alt=\"With MTI Representatives\"><\/div><figcaption>Director General Gareth Davies met representatives from Singapore&#8217;s Ministry of Trade and Industry to discuss the UK-Singapore Economic and Business Partnership.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What do the UK\u2019s Industrial Strategy and Singapore\u2019s Committee on the Future Economy Have In Common?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/70266\/1_resized.png\" alt=\"What do the UK's Industrial Strategy and SIngapore's Committee on the Future Economy Have In Common?\"><\/div><figcaption>Creating Innovative Economies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/70267\/2_resized.png\" alt=\"What do the UK's Industrial Strategy and SIngapore's Committee on the Future Economy Have In Common?\"><\/div><figcaption>Good Jobs and Greater Earning Power For All<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/70268\/3_resized.png\" alt=\"What do the UK's Industrial Strategy and SIngapore's Committee on the Future Economy Have In Common?\"><\/div><figcaption>Upgrading Physical and Digital Infrastructure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/70269\/4_resized.png\" alt=\"What do the UK's Industrial Strategy and SIngapore's Committee on the Future Economy Have In Common?\"><\/div><figcaption>Creating Good Conditions to Start and Grow Businesses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/70270\/5_resized.png\" alt=\"What do the UK's Industrial Strategy and SIngapore's Committee on the Future Economy Have In Common?\"><\/div><figcaption>Ensuring Prosperous Communities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To read Director General Gareth Davies\u2019 opinion editorial \u2018Moving Together : UK and Singapore\u2019s Economic Strategies\u2019, visit <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rsis.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CO17236.pdf\">here<\/a>. The article also appeared on The Business Times on 14 December 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He shared how UK\u2019s newly published Industrial Strategy aligns closely with the priorities of Singapore\u2019s Committee for the Future Economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}