Innovation enablers are organisations within the startup ecosystem that facilitate co-innovation between startups and corporates. Innovation Enablers leverage on their networks, platforms, programmes or events to bring problem owners and problem solvers together.
The IEN aims to bring together active innovation enablers in order to aggregate corporate co-innovation opportunities and provide a platform for corporates and startups to drive co-innovation. These innovation enablers play an important role to facilitate co-innovation, supporting corporates that are just starting out their innovation journey and working closely with innovation labs for startups and technology scouting.
Founding Members
Founded on 16 August 2019 and supported by Enterprise Singapore
Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) Ltd
IEN Chair
Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) is the National Voice for Singapore Startup Ecosystem. ACE focuses on five pillars that are crucial for any ecosystem: Startups, Corporations, Institutes of Higher Learning, Risk Capital, and Public Sector. As the driving force behind Singapore as an Innovation Island, ACE is creating a virtual and physical space where ideas, knowledge, and capability are transformed into value efficiently.
Established in 2003 by the Ministry of Trade & Industry, ACE is supported by the Singapore government under the patronage of Dr. Tan See Leng, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Manpower, and Second Minister for Trade and Industry.
For more information, please visit https://www.ace.org.sg
A*ccelerate Technologies Pte Ltd
IEN Member
A*ccelerate is the commercialisation arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), supporting it in transforming the economy by driving innovation and commercialising its research outcomes. We aim to be the one-stop co-innovation partner of choice to grow business in Singapore and beyond through translating inventions and intellectual capital into marketable products, processes and services. Our teams of IP, technology transfer and commercialisation professionals harness new technologies, increase the value of intellectual property and incubate cutting-edge business ventures to create commercial impact.
We pride ourselves on being people and enterprise-oriented, with insights and results that place us with world-class technology transfer organisations globally. Together with industry leaders, mentors, catalysts and the A*STAR research community, we work to build a cohesive ecosystem for Innovation and Enterprise. We are dedicated to accelerating Mind to Market.
Agorize
IEN Member
Agorize is the leading global platform for Open Innovation and talent engagement challenges. Founded in Paris in 2011 with offices across Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and Canada, Agorize has supported over 200 international companies in furthering their innovation strategies by connecting them with our community of 5 million innovators through Open Innovation challenges. Through our software as a service (SaaS) tool, we can tailor-make innovation competitions and business challenges dedicated to fostering innovation and sourcing talent.
Our ambition is to become the missing link between large corporations and talented innovators: students, developers, startups and employees. Because the best ideas can come from anywhere.
Core Services:
Startup Challenges (Pure online / Online to offline) - Spot top startups around specific problem statements to potentially pilot / invest in / accelerate / collaborate with
Business Student Challenges (Pure online / Online to offline) - To spot top talent to hire and ideas to potentially further develop.
Hackathons (Pure online / Online to offline) - To spot top tech talent to hire & prototypes to potentially further develop
Internal Staff innovation challenges (Pure online / Online to offline) - Spot top ideas to further develop and upskill your staff
Innovation Platform - An end to end SaaS solution to support the running of innovation challenges. From sharing the brief, helping participants form a team, supporting the creation of deliverables, support, vetting, and mentoring
Sectors Specialisation:
Cosmetics, aviation, banking, manufacturing, beverages, government agencies, and health
ImpacTech
IEN Member
ImpacTech provides bespoke programs for organizations, who want to drive practical change and growth, by harnessing tech-innovation. Among our services: Acceleration Program, Innovation Challenge, Venture Building, Innovation Excursions Trips (e.g. to Israel and Thailand), Workshops and tailored Incubation Bootcamps.
ImpacTech was founded in 2015 and operates in Singapore (HQ), Thailand, Japan, and Israel.
Core Services:
Innovation Challenge
Corporate Accelerator/Incubator
Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
Overseas Innovation Excursion
Sectors Specialisation:
Energy, Life Science, Edu-Tech, Agri-Tech, Health and Nutrition, Aging Population, Mobility and Transportation, other Impact driven innovation
IPI Singapore
IEN Member
IPI catalyses and enables enterprises to grow their businesses through technology and innovation. An affiliate of Enterprise Singapore, IPI promotes open innovation, and works with enterprises to source for technologies locally and abroad. In addition, it facilitates technology partnerships to bring new and innovative products and services to the market.
Connected to a global network or technology partners, including the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), IPI is well-positioned to facilitate connections between technology seekers and providers, driving growth and innovation opportunities for Singapore enterprises.
Core Services:
Technology Scouting and Expert Sourcing (Tech Expert) and Technology landscape study
Innovation Advisors Program and Open Innovation Challenges
Open Innovation and Technology Commercialisation Training Workshops
Sectors Specialisation:
ICT – AI, IoT, edge computing, VR/AR and communications
Health & Personal Care – Diagnostics, medical devices, digital health and skin care
Food & Nutrition – Healthy beverages and Snacks, alternative protein, shelf life extension and food waste valorisation, re-formulation and functional food
Advanced Manufacturing – Robotics, automation, machine vision and additive manufacturing
Energy & Environment – Renewables, energy and waste management, and waste to worth
Materials & Chemicals – Recyclable materials, performance materials, functional coatings, specialty chemicals and nanotechnology
Agritech & Aquatech – Urban farming, modern agriculture, feeds and feeding, breeding and seed production, health & disease management
KPMG Digital Village
IEN Member
KPMG Digital Village’s mission is to help corporates act and think like technology companies. This means bringing speed and agility to the corporate digital innovation journey. Our human-centred design approach is at the heart of how we co-design solutions that are truly unique and co-innovate for results that let you outpace the competition. The impact? Measurable outcomes that show how we make innovation work.
Core Services:
Business Model Innovation and Innovation Strategy
Sectors Specialisation:
Government, Financial Services, Logistics and Supply Chain
Padang & Co
IEN Member
Padang & Co is an innovation catalyst for large enterprises – we enable them utilise a range of innovation tools to solve big problems and develop opportunities in ways that are faster, more agile and cheaper. We nurture communities of interest, and mobilise energy and capabilities of tech startups to collaborate with these enterprises and other ecosystem partners.
In that way, we help shape the Future of Work. Padang & Co is the architect of LEVEL3, the pioneering Enterprise-led Coworking model launched in 2017 in partnership with Unilever Foundry, and CATALYST, an innovation hub for Medical and Health Tech startups, and clinician-innovators.
Core Services:
Corporate Innovation, Scouting, Innovation Challenges , Acceleration and Pilot management programmes, Hackathons
Enterprise-led innovation hubs
HackHire, talent sourcing and matching
Sectors Specialisation:
Food & AgriTech, Smarter Cities, Health, Sustainability, Data and AI
IMDA Open Innovation Platform (OIP)
IEN Member
The Open Innovation Platform (OIP) is a virtual platform that connects and matches challenges of Problem Owners to a pool of Problem Solvers. The OIP accelerates digital transformation and expands innovation capacity in our ecosystem; Problem Owners benefit from access to a large community of Solvers with multi-disciplinary tech expertise, while Solvers on the OIP have access to potential customers and co-innovation opportunities.
IMDA PIXEL
IEN Member
PIXEL is a 25,000 sqf innovation space at One-North that provides the Infocomm and Media (ICM) industry with facilities, expertise and programmes to ideate, experiment and build customer-centric digital experiences for the future. PIXEL brings together diverse and unique community at the intersection of tech, media and design: content creators, tech innovators, immersive media companies, and games. PIXEL offers four key capabilities that support the development of customer-centric digital experiences - Design Thinking, User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX), Immersive Experiences and Digital Storytelling. We host regular thematic mixers, workshops and masterclasses in these four areas, where our community learn, network and get inspired by each other. Innovators can also tap on mentors and experts for advice in developing their digital solutions.
New Members
ICMG Pte Ltd
IEN Member
ICMG Pte Ltd is a corporate innovation accelerator in Singapore working towards becoming the leading corporate innovation accelerator. We focus on co-creation of purposeful innovation in the world and create a sustainable business by co-creating with clients and different stakeholders.
Core Services:
ICMG Innovation Platform and Innovation Immersions
Corporate Innovation Program – Innovation Challenges / Innovation strategy
SDG Corporate Innovation Lab - Sustainable Development Goals, Digital Transformation
Sectors Specialisation:
Smart Cities, Electronics, Food and Beverages, Packaging
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