To develop the plastic-electronics industry, National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) is creating R&D plastic-electronics technology and collaborating with international and domestic educational and private sectors to form a Plastic Electronics Consortium by the end of the year.
To promote development and innovation in Thai IT businesses, National Innovation Agency (NIA) has awarded National Innovation Awards 2008 to seven out of 407 projects.
Research and development in Thailand will no longer be an isolated function. The Technology Manage-ment Centre (TMC) has partnered with the Thammasat University to conduct a Lab2Market project with an aim to reduce the gap between researchers and businesses.
Whatever happened to technology making life easier?
That's a question many of us may be tempted to ask when faced with our daily dose of e-mails, spreadsheets, attachments and all manner of other data that must be digested each morning, even before our first coffee of the day.