Internationalization of University-Industry Collaborations: What Can We Learn from Singapore’s Institutes of Higher Learning?
Zhuang Tengteng1, Hong Huaqing2,3
1.Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100038, China 2.Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai Foreign Studies University, Shanghai 201620, China 3.Centre for Research and Development in Learning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Abstract Singapore’s higher education sector has made strides in integrating industry and education on an international scale. The country has implemented various strategies to advance the internationalization of university-industry collaborations (UICs). These strategies include attracting globally recognized multinational corporations to partner with local universities on research, incorporating multinational initiatives into university curricula to increase relevance and global orientation, jointly developing multifaceted talent development programs with regional and global companies, and facilitating student participation in local infrastructure projects undertaken by multinational firms. The successful implementation of these initiatives is enabled by several factors: proactive government support and coordination, university departments dedicated to industry partnerships, mutually beneficial university-business collaborations built on complementarity, and Singapore’s highly internationalized, multicultural society. Singapore’s approach offers profound insights. These encompass imperatives such as fortifying the intrinsic evolution of higher education quality to broaden the spectrum of industry stakeholders participating in this integration, optimizing government-industry-academia relations to foster a more conducive environment for applied universities’ industry-education collaboration, enhancing universities’ receptiveness to engage international corporations in talent development and scientific inquiry, and incentivizing the diversification of educational practices to progressively pioneer diverse trajectories for the internationalization of UICs.
Zhuang Tengteng,Hong Huaqing. Internationalization of University-Industry Collaborations: What Can We Learn from Singapore’s Institutes of Higher Learning?[J]. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2023, 53(9): 18-28.
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