Scholarships available to outstanding students 

Professor Yuko Aoyama, professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow of Geography at Clark University, will teach a summer course this year at the Singapore Institute of Management’s SIM Summer Institute 2012, which will focus on “Economic Competitiveness, Innovation, and Creative Cultures” and will take place July 2 to Aug 3.

Along with Jessie Poon, professor and director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center at State University of New York at Buffalo, Aoyama will teach a course titled “Economic Geographies of Competitiveness and Innovation.”

The SIM Summer Institute 2012 is offering scholarships valued at $1,500 to outstanding students, effectively reducing the fee to $2,600 for the five-week program.

Deadline to apply for the scholarship is June 1.

Details about the SIM Summer Institute and scholarships are online at http://www.simge.edu.sg/epub/SIM-Summer-Institute-2012/index.html#/1/zoomed.

From the SIM website: “The factors behind Asia’s economic emergence have been relatively well-documented. But the region’s role in global innovation is much less known. Yet innovation is becoming a key driver of the region’s competitiveness. ‘Economic Geographies of Competition and Innovation’ attempts to unpack Asia’s competitive imperative. As standards of living rise in the region, this demand attention to more endogenous drivers of regional development that can help support four decades of high growth rates. Along with the course on ‘Artistic Practices as Thinking’, we seek to develop an understanding of the innovation process and its relationship to the countries’ competitiveness in the region. Intense group work, projects and visits to companies in Singapore will augment academic discussions and theoretical frameworks in class. These are supplemented by a field trip to Hong Kong and China, where students will have the opportunity to engage in in-depth discussions with industry leaders on innovation and competitiveness.”