Tan Sze Wee Executive Director of the Science and Engineering Council at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) noted that there have been prominent outcomes the Urban Computing and Engineering Centre of Excellence, the result of a public-private partnership between SMU, A*STAR and Fujitsu. He also commented that although local industrial output has been tepid for several quarters, reflecting weak external demand, the electronics sector has managed a near-9 per cent growth in the first eight months of 2016, propped up by the semiconductor industry.
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