Innovation Support


Grants

Integrated Grant Management System

The Integrated Grant Management System (IGMS) is designated for researchers and grant managers involved in NRF, MOH, MOE, and A*STAR grants. Visitors to the site can find out about ongoing grant calls and projects which have been awarded in the past.

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Cities of Tomorrow R&D Programme

The Cities of Tomorrow R&D Programme (CoT) is a multi-agency effort, led by MND, that leverages R&D to address Singapore's urban challenges. Through collaborations with academic and industry partners, it aims to do more for our future city and sustain Singapore's success in the decades ahead.

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LTA Development Funds

A repository of innovation, research and technology grant support schemes managed by the Land Transport Authority.

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SG ECO Fund

The SG ECO Fund was set up in 2020 to support projects that advance environmental sustainability and involve the community. Projects must not have commenced or obtained funding from other government sources.

*Only projects with community involvement/ engagement will be considered.

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Financial assistance schemes managed by Enterprise Singapore (ESG) 

A repository of enterprise financial assistance schemes managed by Enterprise Singapore (ESG). These include the Enterprise Development Grant (EDG) that supports companies’ business transformation journeys, from upgrading, to innovation and productivity projects, such as product development and test-bedding in new overseas markets.

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The Competitive Funding for Water Research

The Competitive Funding for Water Research (CWR) is a funding scheme that funds basic/applied R&D projects that possess potential in developing innovative and novel solutions for the water industry. It is part of Singapore's Research, Innovation, and Enterprise (RIE) Plan under the Urban Solutions & Sustainability (USS) domain.

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3R Fund

Encourages organisations to reduce waste disposed of at NEA’s incinceration plants and disposal facilities through the implementation of waste minimisation and recycling projects.

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PACT Programme

The PACT Programme encourages mutually beneficial collaborations between companies. Driven by a lead enterprise, the nature of collaboration should go beyond regular business activities to help companies build capabilities, innovate and pursue new business opportunities in local and overseas markets. The programme funds up to 70% of qualifying costs.

Industrial Water Solutions Demonstration Fund (IWSDF)

The Industrial Water Solutions Demonstration Fund (IWSDF) supports high-impact and innovative projects to treat and reclaim fresh water from industrial used water for process reuse. Companies with monthly water consumption of more than 10,000m3 are invited to submit proposals for projects that yield at least 5% reduction in water consumption through reuse.

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BuildSG Transformation Fund (BTF)

Repository of industry development support schemes managed by BCA.

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Startup SG Schemes

Access an array of schemes and a network targeted at nurturing your startup at any size or stage of growth. Startup SG has nine pillars of support for businesses to access, from matching mentors to startups, crowdsourcing talent for innovation to working with incubators and accelerators to catalyse growth.

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Open Innovation Platforms

Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge (SOIC) 2021

For the 3rd cycle of SOIC, ESG aims to partner innovative companies to develop solutions that support Corporate and Industry Sustainability goals. This focus is on Low Carbon and Zero Waste/Circular Economy this year.

Call will be launched in August. For SOIC2020: 

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IPI innovation marketplace

A self-service online platform for companies that are looking for enabling technologies, specific technologies, expertise to meet their innovation needs and technical experts to strength in-house capabilities.

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Open Innovation Network (OIN)

The Open Innovation Network (OIN) is a joint initiative by Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) to provide a single gateway to the open innovation ecosystem in Singapore. The platform aggregates all ongoing and past innovation challenges. Innovators, startups or enterprises can use the OIN to search for relevant challenges to join, and seek out co-development and test-bedding opportunities with local and global companies.

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Jurong Island Innovation Challenge

Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and JTC Corporation (JTC) are jointly organising an innovation challenge for sustainability and circular economy solutions for Jurong Island (JI). This innovation call is a follow-up to the Jurong Island Circular Economy Study.

Call will be launched in July/August. Website will be up in July.

Other ongoing OI challenges
Green Buildings Innovation Cluster (GBIC)

GBIC aims to accelerate the development and adoption of promising building energy efficient technologies and solutions, as part of efforts to drive the green building development in Singapore.

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Research and Innovation Scheme for Companies (RIS(C))

Supports companies on their technology development and innovation needs. 

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Low-Carbon Energy Research Funding Initiative (LCER FI)

Supports development of low-carbon energy technologies in the domains of hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation, and storage, to enable decarbonisation of the power and industry sectors. 

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Singapore Food Story R&D Programme

Supports development and use of productive, climate-resilient, innovative and sustainable technologies for agriculture and aquaculture, and new biotech-based foods and ingredients.

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R&D collaborations with PUB

PUB welcomes novel ideas and technologies to increase Singapore’s water resources, improving water quality, while at the same time reducing energy consumption, chemical usage, waste generation and reliance in manpower.

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A*STAR Collaborative Commerce Marketplace (ACCM)

A capability based platform to enrich the innovation ecosystem by fostering broad-based engagements amongst enterprises.

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Technology Access

Provides advanced manufacturing and biotech / biomedical scientific services and equipment under the guidance of technical experts under Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Inspection Tools, Semi-conductor processing, and BioTech and BioMedical Scientific Services and Equipment.

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SIMTech Innovation Factory

A center dedicated to support Singapore's SMEs from the ideation stage to the design and engineering stage, allowing them to become product owners to venture into higher value markets.

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A*StartCentral

An open innovation platform to incubate and accelerate the growth of deep-tech startups, and bolster the startup ecosystem fostering interaction between researchers, corporates, startups, investors, and entrepreneurs across diverse disciplines.

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Cool Ideas Enterprise (CIE)

Open innovation platform to co-develop solutions that improve the living environment and HDB residents’ quality of life.

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Innovating and Curating Better Automation and Technologies for Environmental Services (INCUBATE) Programme

NEA partners with technology and service providers as well as premise owners to collaborate on ways to address challenges they face in the area of environmental services, including the conduct of trials for technologies and innovations and sharing the results and learning of such trials.

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ACCelerating Energy Storage for Singapore (ACCESS) Programme

Facilitate adoption of innovative ESS in Singapore by promoting use cases and business models.

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Built Environment Accelerate-to-Market Programme (BE-AMP)

Matchmakes inventors with companies to solve real world industry challenges. BE-AMP focuses on Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD), Smart Assets, Maintainability, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA), and advanced construction techniques (e.g  robotics, additive manufacturing, materials etc.)

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Test-Bedding and Tech Translation Opportunities

NTUitive

NTUitive Pte Ltd (“NTUitive” in short) is the innovation and enterprise company – and a wholly-owned subsidiary – of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). NTUitive manages the University’s intellectual property, promotes innovation, supports entrepreneurship, and facilitates the commercialisation of research.

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Agri-food Cluster Transformation (ACT) Fund

The Innovation & Test-bedding component under ACT Fund supports local farms' Proof-of-Value projects or development of innovative farming technology / systems that directly improve farms’ productivity, sustainability and circularity of resource use, within an implementation window of up to two years.

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Built Environment Living Lab Framework (BE LLF)

Facilitates test-bedding of innovative proposals in living laboratories.

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Living Lab (Water)

Formerly known as the TechPioneer scheme, the Living Lab (Water) is a scheme under the Urban Solutions & Sustainability (USS) domain as part of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) Plan. Living Lab (Water) aims to accelerate the commercialisation of new promising water technologies by incentivising their early adoption locally.

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Innovating and Curating Better Automation and Technologies for Environmental Services (INCUBATE) Programme

NEA partners with technology and service providers as well as premise owners to collaborate on ways to address challenges they face in the area of environmental services, including the conduct of trials for technologies and innovations and sharing the results and learning of such trials.

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WTE Research Facility (WTERF)

The WTERF co-funded by NEA and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) takes all the municipal solid waste from NTU as its feedstock, and using high-temperature slagging gasification technology provides a “plug-and-play” platform to enable research translation, test-bedding and demonstration projects to be undertaken by the industry and research community.

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Centre of Innovation: Ecolabs

The Ecolabs Centre of Innovation for Energy aims to help Singapore based energy Start-ups and SMEs by providing them with essential translation facilities and connections, such as research & development manpower, lab infrastructure, testbed sites and business opportunities to help them successfully commercialise and scale their innovation efforts.

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Building Innovation Panel (BIP)

Assists in expediting evaluations and obtaining regulatory clearance to use innovative methods, processes, technologies and materials in construction projects.

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Centre of Innovation: Environment and Water Technology

The Environmental & Water Technology Centre of Innovation (EWTCOI) aims to partner SMEs in developing solutions for Water Technology, Sustainable Materials Technology, Energy Efficiency Technology and Membrane Technology. Through applied R&D and consultancy projects with SMEs, they aim to translate ideas into practical solutions or innovations for a sustainable environment.

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Capability Building Support

Technology for Enterprise Capability Upgrading (T-Up)

Through the Technology for Enterprise Capability Upgrading (T-UP) initiative, businesses can engage A*STAR Research Scientists and Engineers from Research Institutes (RIs) to help identify and execute suitable R&D or innovation projects to upgrade your operations for a period of up to two years. These research scientists and engineers will be attached to your business during the project.

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Innovation and Enterprise Fellowship Programme (IFP)

Apprenticeship scheme for SC/PRs with successful innovation and enterprise (I&E) partners of strong commercialisation track record.

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Internationalization Support

Global Innovation Alliance (GIA)

The Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) is a network of Singapore and overseas partners in major innovation hubs and key demand markets, with a focus on technology and innovation.  

It is a joint initiative between Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).

Both agencies work with in-market players across the various  GIA cities to run both inbound and outbound acceleration Programmes to connect companies to overseas business and tech communities. The programmes support:

Singapore startups and SMEs in venturing abroad; and International startups in scaling up in Asia through Singapore as a springboard 

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International Co-Innovation Programmes

Singapore’s international co-innovation programmes assist companies’ growth and internationalisation, by supporting projects that catalyse cross-border collaboration on technology development and co-innovation.

These programmes open up new opportunities for the exchange of ideas and knowledge across enterprises in different countries. By working with an international counterpart, companies can co-innovate solutions, test-bed them and scale up into the region together.
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Innovation Advisory Support

Innovation Advisors Programme

Under this programme, businesses are guided by innovation mentors who will advise them in the development of innovation strategies, new products and solutions to address market needs, and connect businesses to technology and business partners.

Examples of co-innovation programmes include:

  • Eureka Clusters
  • Singapore-France Joint Innovation Call
  • Germany-Singapore SME funding programme
  • Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Programme
  • Singapore-Shanghai Joint Innovation Call
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Operation & Technology Roadmapping (OTR)

Operation & Technology Roadmapping helps organisations establish a long-term growth strategy driven by technology, map out and visualise how businesses can grow by exploiting the right drivers, products and services, and technologies.

The Consortium OTR programme caters to groups of companies within the same sectors or industries, providing tools to deepen partnerships and foster pervasive innovation.

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