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The Finnish Smart Building Technology Matchmaking Event returned for its second edition on 4 April 2019 after a successful debut last year. Co-organisers IPI, the Helsinki Business Hub, the Embassy of Finland in Singapore, Kiradigi and Business Finland assembled a content-rich programme and brought together over 80 participants from Singapore and Finnish companies to explore technology collaboration. Industry speakers from...

The Innovation and Enterprise Office (IEO) Forum supported by IPI has grown to be a vibrant platform for IEOs to share the latest initiatives targeted at building a stronger local innovation landscape through academia-industry technology collaboration since its inaugural session in March 2017. Held twice a year, the IEO Forum in 2019 will be co-chaired by the Singapore University of...

Driven by technology advancements, the personal care industry is experiencing a rapid pace of innovation. From reinvention of conventional ingredients to refining processing methods, brands are increasingly investing in R&D to distinguish themselves from the competition and meet changing consumers' demands. To support businesses in accelerating their innovations to market through collaboration, IPI put together a technology forum on Innovations...

Singapore has continuously encouraged collaboration to drive innovation across the local ecosystem. Specifically for the local Infocomm Media (ICM) sector, the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) piloted the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) in mid 2018. The OIP is a virtual platform that connects and matches problem statements of enterprises to a pool of technology providers in the ICM industry. As...

Start-ups grapple with numerous challenges and the path to success is often gruelling. For many technology start-ups, product innovation and development are particularly important components to gain a competitive advantage in the market. As part of its efforts to engage the hardware and engineering start-ups in Singapore to enhance their product development capabilities, JTC organised an industry sharing session on...

Germany and Singapore are ranked among the leading countries poised to gain from emerging technologies of Industry 4.0 based on a recent report from the World Economic Forum. As industrial transformation picks up pace, countries are using new approaches to public-private collaboration to accelerate the transition.The Singapore Economic Development Board organised an outreach event targeted at German SMEs or Mittelstand...