Book Review: The State of Innovation in Singapore

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The Book:

The State of Innovation
at firm level
in Singapore

Findings, Rcommendations and Case Studies

2008 Dr Hitendra Patel and Eduardo Chakarian
Publication of the IPS

It has the logos of IPS, Monitor Group, LKY SPP, NUS on its cover.
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It was a rather uninsightful book. In spite of the academic credentials of its authors and contributing organizations, the book did not frame their findings as part of any model or reasoning process.

About 10% of the book is dedicated to the results of qualitative surveys, with no references to the actual survey done, and survey methodology is excluded. The other 90% went to a narrative on case studies of other countries or firms (30%) and recommendations with no justifications (60%): the justifications were perhaps expected to follow from narratives of executives' experiences.

One can only hope this isn't the product of the top talents which fills Singapore's bureaucracy.