What We Do

Our open innovation programmes create collaborative opportunities
between technology partners such as startups, operational end-users,
homeland security engineers, and scientists.

Our Programmes

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Technology scouting: Market trend analysis, global scouting and validation of emerging technologies and startups across industry verticals.

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Open Innovation Challenges: Tech acceleration programmes that attract and validate dual-use technologies for homeland security use-cases and challenges through collaborative development with operational end-users and technical staff.

Technology Scouting 

From developing a deep understanding of our end-users needs to the acceleration of collaborations, we are methodical and intentional in our approach.

Our Process

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Definition of end-users’ challenge areas.

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Startup scouting and validation.

03.

User engagements and iteration.

04.

Curation of startups for end-users.

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Facilitation of collaboration areas between end-users and startups.

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Accelerate and support collaborations.

Open Innovation Challenge

The Open Innovation Challenge (OIC) is our programme to accelerate and validate dual-use technologies that are globally crowdsourced, which address challenges and demonstrate a new capability.

Participating startups will typically receive non-equity funding for the Proofs-of-Concept or trials and opportunities to collaborate with operational end-users, homeland security engineers and scientists across Singapore’s Home Team.