Seeking Proposals for UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D Call 2024

Are you a UK or Singapore technology company looking for partners to co-innovate on product development, top on R&D funding and access new markets?

The UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D Call offers UK and Singapore companies the opportunity to develop ready-to-market solutions for products, technology-based services or processes. Enterprise Singapore and Innovate UK will provide access to public funding for selected projects that have strong market potential for Singapore, UK or the international market.

The call for proposals is open to all technological and application areas. We would particularly welcome applications in the following sectors:

• Advanced Manufacturing & Materials;
• Agrifood Tech;
• Mobility & Transport;
• Cybersecurity; and
• Health & Life Sciences

More information about the call and the application process can be found here.

A project consortium must minimally comprise of 1 UK company and 1 SG company, both independent of each other. Although not mandatory, research performers from academic / research institutions are encouraged to join the consortium, but they cannot work alone. Each project partner should contribute no more than 70% of the total project contribution.

Under this programme, Enterprise Singapore will support up to 70% of the Singaporean company’s total qualifying project costs. To be eligible for support, the applicant must fulfil all of the following:

• Be a business entity that is registered and physically present in Singapore;
• ≥ 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) / Singapore PR(s), determined by the ultimate individual ownership; and
• Be financially able to see a project through to completion.

The call will be open till 28 August 2024 for applications. Singapore companies can submit their interest by completing an online preliminary form here as soon as possible.

If you would like to seek a partner to jointly collaborate on a project under this call, please get in touch with us by clicking on the 'Make an Enquiry' button below. Prior to this, you may wish to contact your funding agency to confirm on your eligibility to participate in the call.

You may also check out some of the opportunities on the IPI Online Marketplace, and the opportunities from UK and Singapore on the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) website, subject to the eligibility criteria.

• Partnering Opportunities from Singapore: Tech Offers, Tech Needs
• Partnering Opportunities from UK: Tech Offers on IPI's Innovation Marketplace, Tech Offers/Requests on EEN

Sign up to the UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D Partner Matching Platform HERE to search for like-minded companies to jointly participate in the call.

Projects that do not involve any co-development or R&D cooperation. Testing and validation of technologies without any co-development would also not be eligible.

28 August 2024, 1800 hrs (GMT+8)

• Licensing
• R&D Collaboration

• UK-SG Collaborative R&D 2024 Call Document.pdf