Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge 2021 - Open Category

The application phase will run from December 15, 2021 (GMT+8) and will end on February 28, 2022 at 23:59 (GMT+8).

Innovators can register on the platform, choose a category to tackle, complete the participation form, and submit a 5 to 10 slide PDF proposal deck addressing the following areas:

• Details of Applicant
• Executive Summary: provide a summary of the solution, technology and deliverables – tangible and intangible outcomes of the project (in less than 500 words).
• Detailed project proposal, including:
  • Technical feasibility of solution and novelty
  • Effectiveness in addressing the challenge (how the solution can address requirements).
  • Potential benefits (e.g. how is this solution novel/different from what is available currently, potential cost and manpower savings).
  • Operational feasibility: Potential end users/stakeholders onboarding plans.
  • Business feasibility of solution (commercialisation and scale up strategy, estimated commercial price, operating/maintenance/life cycle cost/business model).
  • Capacity and expertise to execute (capabilities and resources committed).
  • Details on POC/MVP if applicable; Desired deliverables/milestones and outcomes of projects (including but not limited to tech specs, project/product development schedule, key challenges to overcome).
  • Others (as specifically requested by Challenge Brief).

Feel free to participate in the sector-based and technology-based category by creating new participations should you have more than one solution to submit!

The deadline of the submission will be on February 28, 2022 at 23:59 (GMT+8). Please note that all the deliverables must be submitted in English.

The innovators will be contacted by Enterprise Singapore to clarify their proposals and the potential industry collaboration.

Participants will be contacted directly via the challenge platform chat.

After the Clarification Phase, innovators will be assessed from May to June 2022. The announcement of the awarded innovators will be made in May - June 2022.