Actually hor, to be objective, the research info and results do
stay in Singapore.
From my 1-year stint in Institute of Micro Electronics (IME),
what I observed is that as much time is spent on doing research as
on preparing presentations, writing papers. This is to 'store' the
information within Singapore, and to apply for patents under
Singapore's name. Eg, for my FYP, my main supervisor comes from
Taiwan, my other supervisors are from China and India. My main
supervisor goes overseas very frequently to give presentations on
our project, and the project is currently underway for a patent.
But the documentations are still in Singapore; their work is owned
by IME.
That way, even if these foreign researchers leave, and new ones
come, they can very easily get into the same/similar project with
all these documentations. The patents do stay, the results get
shared worldwide
when this China and india PHD do goes back to their native
country. copy and duplicate their research finding for use in
India/china. What can we do to them? fighting court case in India
and china? maybe we can see the outcome in indonesia and
thailand.
