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Panasonic Deep Tech Challenge 2
Panasonic Deep Tech Innovation Challenge 2 aims to identify high potential startups with emerging technologies to collaborate and co-innovate with Panasonic's heating/cooling thermal storage capabilities in various applications such as advancing product functionality, transportation & storage, pharmaceutical products and enabling human relief. Panasonic will be featuring two different thermal storage technologies in this challenge: (i) Cold storage technology, and (ii) Heat storage technology.
Challenge 1
How can we enhance transportation and storage by maintaining a cool or hot temperature?
Transportation & Storage
Southeast Asia is a tropical region with warm temperatures and high humidity. Storing and transporting food, products and other materials may require a specific range of temperatures to keep the goods intact. Panasonic would like to solve wastage from storage and transport complications - where Panasonic will provide the heat and cold storage technology, IP and resources to create an environment suitable for prolonged periods of time.
Challenge 2
How can we safeguard/advance functionality by manipulating the environment/product’s temperature?
Product Functionality & Enhancement
Certain machines, systems, and storage items are best operated within a range of temperatures. Operating in suboptimal temperatures may result in decreasing activities and even damage. To tackle this problem, the industry has created cooling systems that require large amounts of energy and are generally costly. Additionally, there can be losses in the event of power outages or failures.
Panasonic wants to utilise cold storage technology to solve such energy consumption and emergency problems. Panasonic's cold storage technology can reduce energy consumption and create an environment that cools machines and equipment promptly and for a long time in an emergency.
Apply here: https://www.panasonic-dtic.com/
ESG Healthcare Open Innovation Challenge
The onset of COVID-19 has tested global healthcare systems. As we move forward in the COVID era, we need to innovate and revolutionise healthcare.
Enterprise Singapore, in collaboration with Singapore’s leading healthcare providers, welcomes local and international industry players to participate in the Healthcare Open Innovation Challenge to transform healthcare delivery in Singapore.
Successful participants stand to receive grant funding and the chance to co-develop, testbed and deploy your solutions with our healthcare providers!Join the Info Session on Tuesday, 1 December, to learn more! Register here!
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2020 Thematic Problem Statement Call for Innovative Technologies to Enable Safety and Productivity of Intelligent Estates Facilities
Co innovate with us!
Our next thematic call will be Innovations to Enhance Safety and Operations of Intelligent Estates. We will be presenting a collection of problem statements from industry champions like CapitaLand and GeoWorks We wish to select one or more technology solution provider(s) per subject to address the problem statements holistically. These solutions should be sustainable
and scalable.All technology solution providers are welcomed to rise and meet the challenges. Successful companies will have the opportunity to execute pilots with respective industry champions and be supported by grants from iMDA and ESG.
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Singapore Discovery Start-up Innovation Challenge (SDCSIC)
To catalyse innovative technology adoption
The inaugural Singapore Discovery Centre Start-up Innovation Challenge was organised as a platform to support innovation as part of the Singapore Story and is calling for collaboration with local start-ups on proof-of-concepts solutions that could deliver better engaging edutaining experiences for visitors in Singapore Discovery Centre.
Through the challenge, we aim to identify and work with high potential start-up companies with emerging technologies which can open up new possibilities, fuel original innovations and technology adoption in the areas of Immersive Experiences, Smart Spaces and Sustainability for Singapore Discovery Centre.
Winners of the challenge will get funding support by Singapore Discovery Centre for the prototype development of the solutions. There will also be additional opportunities to showcase their winning solution at Singapore Discovery Centre for exposure and potential technology adoption in the industry.
View the Briefing Session recording here!
Download the Briefing Session slide deck here!
Apply here: https://www.sdcsic.com
Join the National Innovation Challenges (NIC) before submission closes!
The National Innovation Challenges (NIC) are back with a brand-new set of challenges that seek to develop nationwide solutions in e-commerce, environmental services, built environment and aviation. With up to S$2,000,000 in co-funding support for eligible enterprises, the NIC seeks to fast-track solutions from prototype, deployment to adoption.
With over 200 proposals submitted in our inaugural launch, the National Innovation Challenges (NIC) are back with a brand-new set of challenge statements that seek to develop nationwide solutions across different industries.
Bring your innovative solutions to life with leading industry players such as Singpost, Ninja Van, SATS, Capitaland and NTUC Club.
Now live, the NIC includes challenges from the E-Commerce Supply Chain Challenge (ESCC), Environmental Services IoT Challenge, and IMDA Open Innovation Challenges.
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https://www.openinnovationnetwork.sg/national-innovation-challenges
Energy Open Innovation Challenge 2020
Inviting startups and SMEs from across the globe - the Energy Open Innovation Challenge, organised by Enterprise Singapore in association with energy company partners, government agencies, and innovators, is now open for applications with up to S$1 million of grant funding support for product development and 4 x S$25,000 in Startup SG grant prizes to be won!
Participate today with your pitch deck!
Challenge Owner(s) / Problem Owner(s) – Corporates who are providing the problem statements: Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell
Challenge Dates (Open and closing dates):
Opening on 02/09/2020, closing on 06/11/2020
The National Innovation Challenges are NOW LIVE
The National Innovation Challenges (NIC) harness Singapore’s innovation capabilities to help businesses adapt to the New Normal.
Enterprise Singapore, the Infocomm Media Development Authority and the National Research Foundation have set aside S$40 million to launch a new series of National Innovation Challenges (NIC).
As Covid-19 continues to disrupt the economy, enterprises must adapt and respond rapidly to the evolving needs of the marketplace.
The NIC will accelerate the development and deployment of industry-led innovative solutions to help companies address immediate needs for safe reopening, as well as mid- and long-term sector challenges, to ultimately emerge stronger in the post-COVID world.
If you have got an innovative idea and are looking to make a difference, we invite you to access our challenge statements and send in a proposal via the links below.
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https://www.openinnovationnetwork.sg/national-innovation-challenges/
Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (PRDCSG) is a core tech development hub primed to transform technologies into real applications for global advancement and new possibilities.
Apply here: panasonic-dtic.com
Challenge Statement 1: Neighbourhood Communities
- How can we enhance trust and reliance within the neighbourhood communities so as to promote a culture of giving and support, especially for the vulnerable families, by the community for the community?
Challenge Statement 2: Migrant Workers Access
- How might we reduce the barrier for migrant workers to gain access to healthcare services, food, shelter, information, and rights independently so that they are aware of the help available and can ask and receive help?
Challenge Statement 3: Food Rescue
- How might we leverage digital solutions to create a food rescue or repurpose ecosystem, made up of the food industry, charities, and supporting industry to minimise food wastage in Singapore?
Challenge Statement 4: Supply Chain Resources
- How might we transform the supply chain into more adaptive, sustainable business models that also meet the demands of societal needs in deeper public-private partnerships?
Challenge Statement 5: Workforce Optimisation
- How can we leverage digital and other complementary technologies to optimise our workforce and business operations across different locations and countries to support segregation, testing and isolation requirements, ensuring workforce safety while minimising businesses disruption and cost?
Challenge Statement 6: Community Engagement
- How might we bring all stakeholders onto a single platform to offer sponsored resources and incentivise their communities for a better match of skills-based volunteering, so as to ensure accountability of sponsored recourse and deliver socially responsible activities together?
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) leads Singapore's digital transformation with Infocomm media. An initiative of IMDA, the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) is a virtual crowd-sourcing platform that bridges real business challenges and opportunities for enterprises to tech firms.
- Predicting virus outbreak with machine learning
- Analysing and predicting pollution levels
Category 2: Learning and Development
- Providing opportunities for foresign domestic workers to develop their tech skills via mobile phones ' VR systems
- Managing inventory based on Machine Learning
- Automating waste separation with visual recognition
- Improving woman's physical security thorough IOT solutions
- Preventing the trade of endangered species through online monitoring
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Managing over 700,000 HDB residential units, 9,000 retail and shop units, 6,500 market and food centre stalls, and 400,000 vehicle parking lots, EM Services has established a strong track record in the management of townships and properties across Singapore.
Driven to deliver real impact, ENGIE Factory build, scale and invest in startups and individual founders who share the mission to accelerate the transition to zero carbon. Through ENGIE’s global presence in over 70 countries, we can provide a unique competitive advantage to the startups we build and partner with.
Haier Group is a global leading provider of better-life solutions. In the era of the Internet and the Internet of Things, Haier transformed from a traditional manufacturing enterprise into a co-creating and win-win IoT community-driven ecosystem, launching the first IoT ecosystem brand in the world.
The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is Singapore's public housing authority. We plan and develop Singapore's housing estates; building homes and transforming towns to create a quality living environment for all. We provide various commercial, recreational, and social amenities in our towns for our residents’ convenience.
JTC Corporation (JTC) is the lead agency in Singapore to spearhead the planning, promotion and development of a dynamic industrial landscape. Since its inception in 1968, JTC has played a major role in Singapore's economic development journey by developing land and space to support the transformation of industries and create quality jobs.
National Environment Agency (NEA) is the leading public organisation responsible for ensuring a clean and green environment, and the sustainable development of Singapore. Its key roles are to protect Singapore's resources from pollution, maintain a high level of public health and provide timely meteorological information.
Sembcorp Industries is a leading energy, marine and urban development group, operating across multiple markets worldwide. With a strong track record in developing and developed markets, we provide solutions across the energy and utilities value chain, with a focus on the Gas & Power, Renewables & Environment, and Merchant & Retail sectors.
YCH is Singapore’s largest home-grown supply chain solutions company and leading regional supply chain management partner to many of the world’s leading brands across Asia Pacific.
The Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC) is a contemporary platform built upon strong public-private partnerships to translate research to industry applications. It is led by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in partnership with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
