Deadline: 28-Jan-22
Applications are now open for the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) to accelerate digital innovation by matching real business challenges of Problem Owners to Tech Solvers.
The Open Innovation Platform (OIP) is a virtual platform that connects and matches Problem Owners to a pool of Problem Solvers, building up digital innovation capabilities for both large and small enterprises.
The platform is supported by a structured innovation process from ideation to commercialisation, as well as a physical innovation facility that can support rapid prototyping and other innovation activities.
Categories
- These 16 challenges award up to $600K.
- Enterprise Challenges
- Drawing insights from integrated data for audit intelligence: Up to S$ 30,000
- Integrate digital assets to enhance remote audit experience: Up to S$ 30,000
- Enhance remote audit verification for manufacturing facilities: Up to S$ 30,000
- Hyper-personalised consumer-oriented services: Up to S$ 30,000
- Drovers’ risk profile for usage-based insurance: Up to S$ 30,000
- Personalising learning and development experience for healthcare: Up to S$ 30,000
- Enivronment-aware Al-enabled automated delivery system: Up to S$ 20,000
- Reliable cross-border logistics and cold chain delivery for medication: Up to S$ 60,000
- Tele-oncology care support: Up to S$ 60,000
- Search optimisation for the B2B Product marketplace: Up to S$ 30,000
- Deliver better medical product knowledge through extended reality: Up to S$ 40,000
- Government Challenges
- A virtual approach to sense, visualise, and optimise artefact mounting: Up to S$ 30,000
- Sector-wide Challenges
- Smart monitoring for senior care: Up to S$ 30,000
- Visual inspection for smart manufacturing: Up to S$ 50,000
- Ootimising producation lines for mould manufacturing: Up to S$ 50,000
- Data-Driven packaging process for best-fit repack and bundle products: Up to S$ 50,000
Categories
The category of challenge is proposed by the Problem Owner and published within the description of each problem statement. The two main categories of challenges are:
- Proof-of-Concept (POC): Demonstration of the technical viability of concepts or features of the proposed solution, in a lab setting or as an isolated exercise.
- Prototype: Demonstration of a working prototype to be tested in an intended or simulated environment, and can be extended to a pilot.
For both categories of challenges, there is the potential for Problem Owner and winning Solver to continue development, commercialise and deploy the solution at scale beyond the OIP.
Benefits
- Benefits to Problem Owners: The OIP provides Problem Owners with access to a large community of solvers with multi-disciplinary expertise. The process also reduces overall innovation costs, de-risks and accelerates innovation outcomes through a crowd-sourcing, agile and iterative problem solving process.
- Benefits to Problem Solvers: Through the OIP, Problem Solvers have visibility of real business needs articulated by potential customers in different sectors, and in turn, have opportunity to proactively engage customers to cocreate with them. Being plugged into the OIP also offers Problem Solvers opportunities to collaborate with other technology providers for multi-disciplinary solutions.
Who are the Problem Owners placing challenges on OIP?
- OIP Problem Owners can be from the Private or Public Sector.
- Singapore government agencies that place Public Sector challenges on the OIP are seeking innovative digital solutions to transform public service delivery for the benefit of Singapore and Singaporeans. Public sector challenges on the OIP are linked to innovation procurement.
- SMEs and Large Enterprises that place Private Sector challenges are seeking innovative ideas, products and solutions to their business challenges or to leverage digitalisation opportunities.
Eligibility Criteria
- OIP is open to individuals, research providers and companies that have digital technology expertise and innovation capabilities. Some of these include Info-Comm and Media (ICM) start-ups, SMEs and larger companies. Problem Solvers should have the ability and desire to co-create and innovate with Problem Owners and/or other partners to translate their ideas into solutions that can address the problem statements.
- OIP welcomes individuals above 18 years old to apply for challenges on the OIP if you have an idea that can be translated into a solution, and for POC/Prototype stage challenges, with the eventual aim of commercialisation and scaling.
- Global solvers may apply for challenges on the OIP. However, from time to time, some Problem Owners may require applicants to have a physical presence in Singapore in order to perform a demonstration of the Proof-of-Concept or Prototype. Global applicants must be prepared to bear the additional cost of travel as no additional funding would be provided aside from the published prize money (unless otherwise stated). Applicants are encouraged to check the respective challenges if there are such requirements before applying.
For more information, visit https://www.openinnovation.sg/imda