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The authors assert that Singapore can meet its goal of becoming a center of knowledge and research excellence. Findings from a Thomson Reuters research report series are presented including the growth in research output, regional collaboration and research and development (R&D) investment and funding in-country in Australia, China and India, improvements in research funding and rise in research output from Singapore. They stress the need for Singapore to recruit and retain the best talent.

Over the past decade, Convergence Research has increasingly gained prominence as a research, development, and innovation (RDI) strategy to address grand societal challenges. However, a dearth of research-based evidence is available to aid researchers, research teams, and institutions with navigating the complexities attendant to the specifics of Convergence Research. This paper presents a multilevel research agenda that accounts for an integral understanding of Convergence Research as a complex adaptive system. Furthermore, by developing a framework that accounts for ancillary, yet essential, systems associated with Convergence Research, we enrich the agenda with a literature-steeped discussion that considers how systems-based practices of collaboration, inquiry, and context interact with the processes and products of Convergence Research. Finally, we synthesize and apply insights from the reviewed literature by providing paths for empirical exploration emphasizing systems-based practices. In so doing, we delineate an extended boundary for a research stream that both clarifies and enlarges our understanding of Convergence Research as a 'system-of-systems'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights several articles featured in 'The Electrochemical Society Interface.' Rate of reaction in ionic solutions; Surface cleaning of silicon for molecular beam epitaxy; Structure of electrochemical polarization curves.