New collaborative 'start-up' approach to drive Singapore’s growth


DPM Heng Swee Keat (left) and Minister Desmond Lee with Emerging Stronger Taskforce members on Nov 19. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A new "start-up" approach adopted by public agencies and the private sector working together on initiatives to drive economic growth may soon become the norm, with the Government keen on making this new agile way of collaboration more widespread.

Members of the Emerging Stronger Taskforce (EST), convened in May to help chart a vision for the country and its industries in a post-Covid-19 world, said on Thursday (Nov 19) that this approach has seen the public and private sectors working alongside each other as partners - rather than as regulators and the regulated.

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