SINGAPORE – Extra alternatives to make bigger out of the country are showing at the horizon for native start-ups and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as Singapore continues to inspire cross-border partnerships and develop its innovation features.
Executive company Undertaking Singapore is increasing the World Innovation Alliance community so as to add a brand new node in Moscow, Russia, which can facilitate marketplace get entry to for corporations in each markets.
Saying this nearly on the 6th version of the Singapore Week of Innovation and Era (Transfer) on Tuesday (Nov 9), Business and Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong famous that the community will probably be expanded to twenty-five towns over the following 5 years.
He mentioned: “This may make bigger the breadth of alternatives that native start-ups can get entry to as they embark on their innovation and internationalisation adventure.”
Transfer is held together with the Singapore Fintech Competition till Friday.
Mr Gan mentioned that Singapore is a gateway to innovation in Asia that serves regional and world wishes, and that it encourages corporations from world wide to discover the area thru partnerships with the rustic.
“We can be creating inbound programmes for overseas start-ups who wish to input Singapore and faucet Singapore as a launchpad to get entry to the South-east Asian area.
“We welcome those start-ups into Singapore, as they give a contribution to the vibrancy of the native start-up ecosystem,” he mentioned, mentioning 500 World’s World Release Singapore programme as one serving to start-ups input the Singapore marketplace and make bigger their industry throughout South-east Asia.
The minister additionally unveiled the second one South-east Asia Open Innovation Problem, which supplies native enterprises with the chance to paintings with trade leaders and make bigger their shopper base.
It follows ultimate 12 months’s inaugural problem, which gained greater than 300 submissions from 30 international locations and led to six pilot tasks.
“That is testomony to the vibrancy and large possible of the start-up and innovation ecosystem in South-east Asia,” mentioned Mr Gan.
One of the most shortlisted resolution suppliers, AImazing, labored with Hong Leong Holdings to increase a cloud-based knowledge control platform for tenant control. It has since secured additional tasks with companions in Malaysia and the Philippines, Mr Gan added.
This 12 months’s regional open innovation problem has 11 issues posed by way of 8 corporates, masking sectors corresponding to sustainability, actual property, hospitality and healthcare. As much as 11 winners – one for every problem – will stand to win as much as $20,000 in grants.
