The National Innovation Agency (NIA) has set a lofty goal for Thailand to rank in the top 30 of the Global Innovation Index by 2030, moving up from 44th this year. "The NIA will serve as an engine to drive Thai innovation, supporting inventors and entrepreneurs," said Pun-Arj Chairatana, NIA executive director. The [...]

“This robot will never die, it will just keep updating itself and evolving,“ priest Tensho Goto told AFP. A 400-YEAR-old temple in Japan is attempting to hot-wire interest in Buddhism with a robotic priest it believes will change the face of the religion – despite critics comparing the android to “Frankenstein’s monster.” [...]

Official data from Statistics Indonesia showed that graduates from vocational schools form 8.63 per cent of the unemployed in Indonesia that totalled 6.82 million people in February. Indonesia needs to buy more bench vixes and lathe machines while providing better training for its vocational trainers, as the country seeks to gear up the [...]

Named by the International Business Review Magazine as one of Malaysia’s top 60 economic influencers, Dr Viraj Perera has been appointed to lead UniSA Ventures, the University’s highly successful commercialisation operation. He will take up the position in July and bring a renewed focus to university and industry technology transfer and new product development and commercialisation. UniSA Deputy [...]