INNOVATION CHALLENGES

JTC has committed $4million for the JTC Innovation Challenge to seek innovative solutions to operational challenges in the built environment faced by JTC and the public sector. If successfully developed, there is intention to pilot/deploy these co-developed solutions into JTC estates and projects, pushing for adoption into the industry.

Jointly launched by EMA and JTC, Jurong Island Renewable Energy RFP seeks to bring together the industry, academia and government agencies to develop and testbed new sustainability solutions on Jurong Island (JI) in the areas of renewable energy generation, energy storage systems and low carbon solutions.

Crowdsourcing @ TechInnovation 2021 is a unique open innovation platform for large corporations to engage the innovation communities and seek technology solutions and partnerships to solve business challenges.  

As part of their joint initiatives on co-innovation with the industry, Land Transport Authority (LTA) and Enterprise Singapore (ESG) seek innovative solutions to help enhance productivity and efficiency in transport operations and maintenance.

Abu Dhabi – Singapore Smart Cities Open Innovation Challenge

National Environment Agency and Enterprise Singapore have jointly launched a Grant Call under the Gov-PACT initiative, to encourage greater use of technology and automation, and raise productivity for the collection and pre-processing of soiled crockery for both offsite and onsite centralised dishwashing at hawker centres, food courts and F&B establishments.

The track calls for startups, SMEs, IHLs and RIs to tackle sectoral challenges for adoption at scale across the industry. This track is featured as part of the National Innovation Challenges. Each challenge statement will be allocated up to S$2,000,000 in co-funding grant support from prototype, deployment to adoption.

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.