Daily Cuts - New $50 million national programme to nurture start-ups

The new year-long National Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP) will help deep-tech startups refine their business ideas, gauge market needs and even meet the right investors. The programme merges existing efforts at two Singapore universities – National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University – and will be extended to all autonomous universities and research institutions. Hairianto Diman and Susan Ng speak to Professor Louis Phee, Vice President (Innovation and Entrepreneurship), NTU, to take a closer look at the mechanics of this new programme.