Open Innovation Platform (OIP)

• Speed up your digitalisation efforts by tapping on a large pool of Solvers with innovative ideas and multi-disciplinary expertise.
• Be facilitated by IMDA through a structured and iterative open innovation process.
• Enjoy reduced cost of searching for solution and expand your overall capacity to innovate.
  
  

• Access to potential customer(s) and apply to curated problem statements (challenges).
• Opportunity to develop and test with Problem Owner(s) and win prize money.
• Winning Solver has the opportunity to commercialise and go-to-market jointly with Problem Owner(s), who may serve as reference for Singapore or the region.

You are:

• A Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), Enterprise, ICM start-ups or innovators intending to participate as Problem Owners, Problem Solvers, or Both.

You need to:

• Problem Owner: 
  Have a business challenge to be solved, and be willing to put up prize money for quality and innovative ideas.
• Problem Solver: 
  Have digital technology expertise and innovation capabilities, and an interest to co-innovate with potential customers or partners in Singapore.

Innovation Challenge:

• Innovation Calls will be released on the OIP every few months.
• Each Innovation Call consists of a set of challenges from different Problem Owners across different sectors;
• Each challenge is accompanied by prize money for winning solutions that are selected based on the criteria of the Problem Owner.

• Ideation;
• Proof-of-Concept;
• Prototype.

The Innovation Call Process