The Straits Times Online published an article on President Halimah Yacob’s five-day state visit to Germany which focused on education and the workforce, where she highlighted that Singapore can learn from Germany’s education system. Under Germany’s dual education system, companies and education institutions work together to teach students over three years. Madam Halimah also hailed the European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement as an important milestone and expressed her hopes that the EU-Singapore Investment Protection and Partnership Cooperation Agreement would be ratified soon, adding that there is scope for more collaboration in the areas of research, innovation and technology, with her visit featuring a number of tie-ups between German partners and Singaporean organisations such as the EDB, Enterprise Singapore and SGInnovate.
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Yahoo! Finance published a press release from Experian which announced that the inaugural Asia Pacific edition of its Vision Conference would be coming to Singapore in 2020. Experian’s Vision conference in North America has helped to connect business leaders to innovative ideas and solutions which help them target new markets, grow customer bases and reduce fraud. Vision 2020 APAC will shine a spotlight on major shifts which are reshaping the region and the significant growth opportunity that lies with the application of data assets today, to enable the provision of better services. The speaker line-up features some 50 industry experts and leaders including Steve Leonard, founding CEO of SGInnovate.
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MoneyFM 89.3 featured an interview with Pang Heng Soon, Head of Venture Building, SGInnovate, and Mriganka Pattnaik, Co-Founder and CEO, Merkle Science, where they discussed the new investment made into Merkle Science under the Startup SG Equity Scheme.
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IN.FOM makes it three in a row as Outstanding PR Consultancy of the Year. Mr Steve Leonard, Founding CEO, SGInnovate, was awarded Outstanding PR Champion.
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HR Asia republished the blog post by SGInnovate on “International Women’s Day 2019 – Bridging the Gender Gap in STEM”. The blog post featured comments from five female deep tech startup founders, where they shared their thoughts on gender diversity in the deep tech startup industry.
Channel NewsAsia published a commentary article by Lin Suling, Executive Editor of CNA, on how the recent Budgets have shifted to give the business community more skin in the game of positioning the economy for the future. Several initiatives were announced at Budget 2019, aimed to give the larger business community a bigger stake in the growth of Singapore companies, such as the injection to the Co-Investment Programme, where Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced that he will be setting aside another S$100 million. “Restructuring” was another key theme in the Budget this year, and the Government will give stronger support for retraining, redesign and automation through enhancements to the Productivity Solutions Grant and Enterprise Development Grant. Research and innovation have been a priority for the Government for a few years now, with the S$19 billion RIE2020 fund being set aside to boost the generation of enterprise solutions by research institutes and entities like SGInnovate and A*STAR being given larger roles to help startups access talent in the past Budgets. This year, research partners were given a stronger role in enterprise development, with the announced creation of two Centres of Innovation in Aquaculture and Energy at Temasek Polytechnic and NTU respectively. Mr Heng highlighted how closer collaboration between companies and IHLs is needed to marry “the spirit of entrepreneurship” with the rigour of research.
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