• Singapore. Over the last decade, Singapore’s government invested heavily in
education and research, both developing its own institutions and through partnering
with leading universities. Thus, Nanyang Technical University (NTU) and
The National University of Singapore (NUS) partnered with leading universities
in multiple scientific and engineering fields, as well as in management education.
The various logistics-related higher learning partnerships in Singapore include
The Logistics Institute Asia–Pacific, involving Nanyang Technical University
and Georgia Institute of Technology, and the MIT-Singapore transportation initiative
which is part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
(SMART). In addition, the Institut des Sciences Economiques awards logistics
degrees on its Singapore campus, as do several local universities including the
School of Business Logistics in Chennai and the Singapore Institute of Purchasing
and Material Management.