21 May 2019
A How-to Guide for Challenge-driven Innovation
Driving open innovation with clear problem statements
Learn how to craft useful and practical problem statements for challenge-driven innovation at IPI's next Open Innovation Workshop in October 2019
It’s been said that “necessity breeds innovation”. Yet, defining necessity can be a challenge in itself. For companies keen on executing a strategy of open innovation, figuring out what needs to...
15 May 2019
A Springboard for Budding Innovations
The insider view on technology commercialisation
Explore the possibilities for industry-academia collaboration (and more) at IPI's Technology Commercialisation Workshop
Business-as-usual no longer cuts it as a viable corporate strategy in a world of technological disruption. Constant innovation is now viewed as a critical strategy for growth, so companies are increasingly looking beyond their four walls for ideas that add...
30 Apr 2019
Igniting Innovation—Bashir Ahmad of Liquinex Group
Bringing clean water to the masses with open innovation
The sharing and co-development of synergistic water purification techniques will help secure the world's supply of clean, drinkable water, says Bashir Ahmad, CEO of Liquinex Group.
Although nearly 70 percent of the Earth is covered in water, only a small fraction of it is drinkable, and worldwide, some 2.1 billion...
22 Apr 2019
Nuts & Bolts - Finesse in Future Factories
Manufacturing gets an update
From gripping to welding and augmented 3D printing, these three TechOffers could increase the precision and productivity of factories and assembly lines.
Machines are increasingly being used on the manufacturing floor to carry out picking and placing, integrating and assembling parts and components in a tightly orchestrated dance. But with miniaturisation and increasing complexity of...
15 Apr 2019
Getting Smart about Energy Grid 2.0
The launch of SPECS and CoolestSG
Two consortia have been officially launched to spearhead efforts in commercialising technology for smarter energy and thermal management.
On the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Singapore pledged to reduce its greenhouse emissions by 36 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. Being a tropical megacity, the island...
28 Mar 2019
Igniting Innovation—Jason Humphries of Good Pharma Dermatology
Open innovation is not just skin deep
By partnering with Singapore's National Skin Centre, Good Pharma Dermatology was able to quickly bring an itch-reducing moisturiser to the market.
Not everyone is blessed with flawless skin. For those suffering from dermatological conditions, itch is a common symptom which take a toll on quality of life and even result in a loss...