Innovation Marketplace

INNOVATION CHALLENGES

Co-create solutions for today's market needs

Supporting our partners in their innovation challenges across multiple sectors, we open avenues for start-ups, enterprises and researchers to co-innovate with leading corporates and government organisations. Innovators with the right solutions can engage in co-development, test-bedding and bring their ideas to market.

Design Think-Tank Challenge
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.
Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge - Enterprise
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. 
NEA-ESG CALL FOR DATA-DRIVEN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES OPERATIONS
The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Enterprise Singapore (ESG) have jointly launched the Call for Data-driven Environmental Services (ES) Operations as part of the National Innovation Challenges (NIC).
E-Commerce Supply Chain Challenge 2020 (ESCC2020)
Featuring industry partners such as Ninja Van, SATS and Singapore Post, this challenge is part of the Singapore National Innovation Challenges and aims to develop industry-led solutions through innovative partnerships between startups or SMEs and large organisations.   
JTC INNOVATION CHALLENGE
If you have fresh ideas to transform the built environment to become smarter, faster and greener – JTC wants you! JTC is seeking partners to address challenges in the built environment.
[CLOSED] JTC INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed businesses to pivot in order to adapt and evolve. Given the scale of infrastructure projects, the built environment industry is in a great position to tap on new solutions to transform. 
TCC Industry (Winners will be announced in early 2021)
This track calls for local and international startups or SMEs to tackle sectoral challenges for adoption at scale across the industry. This track is featured as part of the National Innovation Challenge. Each challenge statement will be allocated S$2 million in co-funding grant support from prototype, deployment to adoption.
TCC Enterprise
This track calls for local and international startups to co-develop and test-bed innovative solutions with challenge sponsors through a paid contract during the trial stage. The winner stands to win the top prize of S$30,000 grant and will also advance into SLINGSHOT 2020 - Asia's premier deep tech startup competition.
CALL-FOR-PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP AND TEST-BED NARROWBAND INTERNET-OF-THINGS ADVANCED ELECTRICITY METERS
To develop, test-bed and commission advanced electricity meters capable of providing remote meter reading that is secure, reliable, and cost efficient.