“Home for Innovation” is about leveraging Singapore’s strengths in systems integration and shifting the focus from sourcing solutions to co-creating solutions with industry partners.

The global trends of urbanisation, ageing and rising affluence are creating demand for new products and services – solutions which Singapore itself needs. Working together with partners from both the private and public sectors, companies can tap on Singapore as a “living laboratory” to collaboratively conceptualise, co-create and test-bed new solutions for commercialisation in Asia and globally. In the process, the people of Singapore will enjoy greater quality of life with easy access to tomorrow’s leading edge solutions today.

The collaboration between PUB – Singapore’s national water agency – and Toray Industries, Inc. is one of the first fruits of this initiative. The collaboration will see the two parties working to develop water treatment-related technologies and products that will help in coping with the anticipated global water shortage.

In addition, Changi General Hospital has partnered Intel to test-bed the Mobile Clinical Assistant, a lightweight mobile device that provides information on patients’ conditions and test results to caregivers who are on the move.