[wooyi]

Singapore had some success in the consumer electronics field with Creative (remember the Sound Blaster?). There is Razor, whose CEO is Singaporean, but the company isn't based there.

Regionally, Singapore is already a tech hub and will continue to dominant that region. But I doubt it will ever threaten the Valley or even places like NY or LA.

[theuri]

There isn't as much home-grown tech innovation / spirit of disruption like you get in places that have a fundamentally irreverent culture that thrives on disrupting the norm and status quo - like parts of the US, China and Israel. It's all big gov, top-down initiatives in Singapore for now, until you get kids coming out of school there that feel entrepreneurship and risk taking is a better route than the safer and more respectable route of high-paying, stable government jobs.

[dublinclontarf]

Or London.