Innovation

NUS Enterprise launches new AI platform to speed up research commercialisation, rebrands as NUSX

2026-09-24T07:05:30.000Z
SingHealth’s enterprise partners and the SGH Nursing team are co-developing a next-generation medical cart through the Alice Lee Innovation Centre of Excellence, aimed at making nurses’ work more efficient and improving patient care.
BRANDED CONTENT

Clinical input, real-world testing: How SingHealth wants medtech firms to build with hospitals, not just for them

2026-09-03T21:50:00.000Z
What someone without an engineering background can build in an afternoon, using AI, is remarkable.
THE BROAD VIEW

What happened when the whole office got Claude

2026-08-14T04:00:00.000Z
From left: Goh Wee Ping, CEO of Wee Hur Capital and CIO of Wee Hur Holdings; guest of honour Jessica Tan, MP for East Coast GRC; and Prof Phoon Kok Kwang, president of SUTD.
TAKING HEART

Wee Hur donates S$1.5 million to SUTD to support students’ innovation efforts

2026-08-07T07:36:49.000Z
(First row, from left:) Fareez Fahmy, Allkin CEO; Christian Chao, Care Corner CEO; and Arthur Ling, Fei Yue CEO. With them are Senior Minister of State Goh Pei Ming and Lien Foundation programme director Luo Ren.
TAKING HEART

Lien Foundation invests S$3.9 million in Innovation Collective by 3 social service agencies

2026-07-28T05:00:00.000Z
Two-thirds of the funding will go towards cross-cutting capabilities in autonomy and digital twins, while the remainder will be used to deepen capabilities in the air, sea and land transport sectors.

Singapore to pump S$800 million into transport and connectivity research and innovation over 5 years

2026-07-07T10:01:34.000Z
Building should sit at the centre of Singapore’s AI strategy, because it is the way capability is formed.

Knowing how to use AI is no longer enough. We need to build with it

2026-07-05T23:00:00.000Z
Singapore has built what amounts to a full-stack frontier technology position, with hardware, capital, governance and talent in a single jurisdiction.

Who captures the value in Singapore’s S$37 billion frontier tech bet?

2026-06-24T06:48:05.000Z
Parts for various robots in Shenzhen. Innovation requires what economists call rents: abnormally large profits that more than compensate for innovators’ costs.

The enduring enigma of economic growth

2026-06-15T05:00:00.000Z
Singapore's patents, research grants, research and development intensity, as well as technical talent, all rank in the global top tier.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Singapore’s real startup problem is not funding

2026-05-19T23:30:00.000Z