Australian Innovator: John van Roemburg |
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John van Roemburg mechanical engineer
by training came across an idea while listening to the radio on the drive home
while he was living in the Netherlands.
In 1999 he moved to Australia and
developed a range of diffusing equipment designed to deliver pleasant aromas
for private homes to large corporate complexes.
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Chinese Innovator: Zhengrong Shi |
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In the mid-1990s, Zhengrong Shi had been a
graduate student at Sydney's University of New South Wales and worked on a
"solar cell" technology called Crystalline Silicon on Glass (CSG) with a
Professor Martin Green and colleagues.
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Singapore Innovator: Olivia Lum |
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Growing up as an
orphan in Perak, Malaysia, Olivia Lum's entrepreneurship began early. As a
child, she peddled homemade ice-lollies. At 16, the straight-A student came to
study at Tiong Bahru Secondary School in Singapore, where she paid her own way
by giving tuition and peddling wares. She proceeded to Hwa Chong Junior College
and then to the National University of Singapore where she graduated in applied
chemistry during the 1986 recession. |
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