CREA TING - Singapore Polytechnic

September 2010
SP and Rotman
DesignWorks of the
University of Toronto jointly
launched DesignWorks
Singapore, a designbased
education and
innovation centre focusing
on business design.
The Live Well Collaborative
Singapore (LWC-S) centre, the
only one outside the United
States, was established at SP.
LWC was founded by Procter &
Gamble and the University of
Cincinnati and focuses on
research on products and
services for the 50+ community.
Four internationally renowned keynote speakers presented at the Design Thinking Summit at
SP. They were Heather Fraser, Director of Rotman DesignWorks and Business Design Initiative;
Vijay Kumar, Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design; Craig Vogel, President
of Live Well Collaborative and Associate Dean at University of Cincinnati; and Matthew Doyle,
Vice President of Live Well Collaborative and Director of Research and Development at Procter
& Gamble.
SP and Temasek
Foundation began
training Mongolia’s
technical and
vocational teachers
as part of a threeyear
joint project.
Dr Ang Kah Wee, an SP alumnus, received the prestigious 2010 President’s Technology Award,
the highest national award conferred on exceptional individuals and teams for excellent achievements
in science and technology.
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Singapore Polytechnic Annual Report 2010/11