INNOVATION CHALLENGES

The inaugural Design Think-tank seeks to provide a platform to connect corporates with business challenge statements to strategic design consultancies, who can offer new perspectives and new ways of problem-solving. Corporates are given 10mins to explain and elaborate on their challenge statements and what they hope to achieve or resolve.

The Enterprise track calls for startups, SMEs, IHLs and RIs to co-develop and testbed your innovative solutions with challenge statement owners across different industries, such as FMCG, consumer electronics, and tourism. Companies that meet eligibility criteria for grant application may also be provided with funding support to develop the solutions. 

The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Enterprise Singapore (ESG) have jointly launched the Call for Data-driven Environmental Services (ES) Operations as part of the National Innovation Challenges (NIC).

Featuring industry partners such as Ninja Van, SATS and Singapore Post, this challenge is part of the Singapore National Innovation Challenges and aims to develop industry-led solutions through innovative partnerships between startups or SMEs and large organisations.   

If you have fresh ideas to transform the built environment to become smarter, faster and greener – JTC wants you! JTC is seeking partners to address challenges in the built environment.

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed businesses to pivot in order to adapt and evolve. Given the scale of infrastructure projects, the built environment industry is in a great position to tap on new solutions to transform. 

This track calls for local and international startups or SMEs to tackle sectoral challenges for adoption at scale across the industry. This track is featured as part of the National Innovation Challenge. Each challenge statement will be allocated S$2 million in co-funding grant support from prototype, deployment to adoption.

This track calls for local and international startups to co-develop and test-bed innovative solutions with challenge sponsors through a paid contract during the trial stage. The winner stands to win the top prize of S$30,000 grant and will also advance into SLINGSHOT 2020 - Asia's premier deep tech startup competition.

To develop, test-bed and commission advanced electricity meters capable of providing remote meter reading that is secure, reliable, and cost efficient.