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The past year has been an eventful one. Despite the challenging market conditions, the IPI team proactively engaged the industry to catalyse innovation and completed 85 techology matches and assessment projects, meeting full-year expectations.  Much was done to orchestrate and scale up co-innovation opportunities between innovators and corporates. In addition, we also rolled out our Innovation Advisors Programme, an important...

New brand reinforces IPI’s mission in creating opportunities for enterprises to grow beyond boundaries through innovation 7 December 2020 - SINGAPORE – IPI, a subsidiary of Enterprise Singapore (ESG) has repositioned their value proposition and revealed a new brand identity as Innovation Partner for Impact at the opening of its flagship technology brokerage event TechInnovation 2020.  “The new brand identity...

  Following the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that kin8 and IPI formalised in October 2019, IPI Senior Director Dr Sze Tiam Lin was invited to offer insights on how to create real world impact through technology translation and commercialisation at the Australian management consultancy’s webinar on 11 November 2020. Speaking to a virtual crowd comprising mainly innovators and researchers based...

As part of IPI’s efforts to share market and technology insights and pave new partnership opportunities in the industrial wastewater management space, IPI organised the Emerging Technology Forum on Difficult-to-Treat Industrial Wastewater on 6 November 2020. Ethan Siew, Technology Manager, Energy & Environment presented his findings on the market opportunities available for industrial wastewater treatment, despite the disruption by COVID-19...

As more consumers shift into digital retail post-COVID-19, an influx of digital solutions that prioritise consumers’ safety and convenience have emerged. IPI organised the “Imagine the Future of Retail Tech” webinar on 4 November 2020, and assembled industry experts in the retail and digital technology fields – Trakomatic, ViSenze, EZ-Link, Vizury and Integrated Retail. The speakers shared how enterprises in...

The 7th Innovation and Enterprise Office (IEO) Forum conducted in-person was abuzz with a spirit of collaboration and camaraderie when it took place on 15 October 2020 after a hiatus brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Director of Singapore Management University’s Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and co-chair of the IEO Forum for 2020, Hau Koh Foo, welcomed 40 representatives...