Siemens has launched its Advance Manufacturing Transformation Center (AMTC) in Singapore to provide guidance, support, and training to companies in South East Asia on their journey of adoption, transition, and transformation towards advance manufacturing. AMTC is the...
Singapore and Norway are expanding collaboration in four priority sectors, including in the so-called “blue economy” that focuses on the sustainable use of ocean resources. The four sectors are maritime digitalization and automation; sustainable urban...
Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is working together with Royal Phillips, a leading health technology company, to establish the Digital and Computational Pathology Center of Excellence. The SGH Center of Excellence aims to advance pathology practice by implementing a...
South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor plans to establish a manufacturing plant in Jurong Innovation District, Singapore, starting in October. Hyundai Motor expects to produce 30,000 electric cars a year at the new plant, with as many as 6,000 set to be...
Kajima Corporation (Kajima), one of the largest construction companies in Japan, is investing nearly SGD 100 million (USD 74 million) to set up its first overseas innovation center in Singapore, the Kajima Global Hub, which will also serve as its Asia Pacific...
The Singaporean food and beverage (F&B) sector continued to show signs of recovery in the first half of this year despite the COVID-19 outbreak. New F&B openings were established to seize the opportunities turned up by the pandemic, such as diminished...
Enterprise Singapore (ESG), a government agency that champions enterprise development in Singapore, will be enhancing the Startup SG Founder scheme with the aim of boosting the pipeline of new innovative startups in Singapore. Launched in 2017, Startup SG Founder...
Singapore’s national power grid operator SP Group (SP) has allocated SGD 30 million (USD 22 million) for research and education initiatives in collaboration with Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The collaboration will see the establishment of the SP...
Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek has joined hands with Bayer’s investment arm, Leaps by Bayer, to form a new company and develop vegetable seed varieties that are suited for indoor vertical farming. The new company, Unfold, has raised USD 30 million in its...
Swiftly, a big data platform for public transit, recently announced an investment round from SMRT Ventures, the Corporate Venture Arm of SMRT, a public transport operator in Singapore. The collaboration with SMRT will enable Swiftly to expand its activities and urban...
San Francisco-based venture capital and consulting firm Starburst has launched its first Aviation Tech Accelerator Program in the city-state Singapore. The program is supported by Enterprise Singapore, Singapore Airlines, SATS, and Panasonic Avionics Corporation, with...
The Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF), a research institute that will develop deep capabilities to support the needs of digital financial services in Asia, will begin operating at the end of the year, as a result of a partnership between the Monetary Authority...
