An honest broker is what Singapore aspires to be as it steps up efforts to foster greater interaction between Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs, says Tan Yinglan, a scholar on Chinese entrepreneurship who is part of the government's drive to promote innovation in the city-state.
"We specialise in helping Indian firms work with China, and vice versa. The analogy is that India and China are two big elephants and we are like a little mouse around these two elephants. We will make ourselves useful in places where the elephants cannot reach," says Tan, 30, who is the head of projects at the National Research Foundation in the Singapore prime minister's office. Full story
