作为亚洲四小龙之一的新加坡在遭遇金融危机之后,反思其经济发展模式,抓住机遇,凭借雄厚的制造业基础及多元文化优势,大力发展知识经济。近十几年来,新加坡政府推行一系列措施重视制造业、服务业创新化发展,弘扬创新创业精神,营造宽松创新环境,培育及引进人才,推进科技成果商业化应用,打造优质创新平台,提升本土创新能力,使创新成为新加坡经济发展的驱动力,并推进新加坡创新城市发展。如今新加坡已成功转型为以知识经济为基础的创新驱动城市,成了东南亚乃至全球的创新中心,其发展经验对正在筹备建设科技创新中心的上海来说有一定借鉴意义。本文在分析新加坡创新城市的发展背景基础上,探讨其推进创新城市发展的举措及经验,以期为上海建设科技创新中心提供借鉴。
As one of the Asian Tigers, Singapore rethought its strategies foreconomic after the Asian Financial Crisis and began to develop knowledge-basedeconomy. In recent years, the government introduced a series of measures andfacilitated Singapore’ s innovation by attaching great importance to the inno-vative development of manufacturing and services, encouraging entrepreneur-ship, creating innovation environment, cultivating and introducing the tal-ents, motivating the researchers in technology transfer, creating platform forinnovation and improving local innovative capability. Singapore has turned in-to a knowledge-based innovative city and became the innovative hub of South-east Asia, the experience of its development is instructive to Shanghai who ispreparing to build innovation centre. Based on analyzed Singapore’ s backgroundof innovative city, the article discussed its policies, in order to provideareference for Shanghai.