For UK and European scale-ups interested in bigger, fresher opportunities, look no further than Southeast Asia (SEA). With almost 650 million people and a forecasted $300 billion digital opportunity in 2025, the SEA region has become the growth engine for some of the world’s biggest & most game-changing tech companies.
Topics: Talent and Mentoring, Others
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The SG Women in Tech Corporate Pledge aims to encourage companies to implement concrete measures to attract, retain and develop more women in tech. Launched on 8 March 2021 by Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information and Patron of SG Women in Tech, 50 companies have come on board to show support by committing to actions, such as providing mentorship, networking activities and implement appropriate HR and workplace interventions.
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Morning Pitch is a pitching platform hosted by Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support. This platform helps startups form business alliances and partnerships with large corporations, corporate venture capitals and venture capital firms. The focus for this Morning Pitch is on PropTech.
Topics: Investments, Startup and Corporate Open Innovation, Others
Industry: Built Environment (USS)
SG Innovation Community Day returns on 4 August 2021!
Topics: Investments, Startup and Corporate Open Innovation, Sustainability, Others
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In 2019, Singapore became China's largest foreign direct investment destination country. The number of Chinese companies operating in Singapore is also growing. Hence the potential for local startups seeking growth opportunities with these companies is immense.
Topics: Investments, Startup and Corporate Open Innovation, Others
Industry: Others
As the AgriFood industry sees more interest from corporates, startups and investors, we believe it is a great time and of great interest to discuss how technologies across different industries and ecosystems may be repurposed and applied to accelerate the progression of the AgriFood industry. This means to say that adjacent technology and science domains such as Blockchain and AI from Health or Manufacturing industries can deliver valuable innovations that can be repurposed in the AgriFood industry. By learning more about the different types of innovative technologies, the industry could be exposed to a vast range of possibilities and potential growth.
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Industry: AgriFood
While he trained in medicine, Jui had spent most of his professional life in the business of science and innovation. He was Director of Investments, Bio*One Capital; CEO of Merlin MD, a medical device company; Executive Director of the Medical Engineering Research and Commercialisation Initiative (MERCI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS); and Programme Director of the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign Programme (SSB), a joint venture between the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and Stanford University. Before joining SGInnovate, Jui was CEO of NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
In a 2021 Global 100 Index of the world's most sustainable corporations released by Canada-based media and research firm Corporate Knights, the Global 100 list continues to be made up mostly of Western companies - with almost half (41) from Europe and 33 from the United States and Canada.
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