Grow Asia Hackathon Enables Corporate Collaboration
Digitalisation is impacting every industry today with agriculture as an especially ripe opportunity, given limited innovative developments in recent years. Therefore, to leverage on the digital, technical and enterprise talent available in Asia, a hackathon called the Grow Asia Hackathon (“Hackathon”) was devised. It sets out to address the productivity, profitability and sustainability challenges faced […]
5 ways for Chief Innovation Officers to foster a culture of innovation and identify opportunities
Startups are here to stay. With access to endless data and more funding, start-ups will survive and therefore disrupt. Hence, the emergence of an innovation race amongst corporates. Everyone – from banks, industrials and even consumer goods companies – are obsessed with innovating. Innovation Labs, accelerators, transformation teams are mushrooming, but are often disconnected with the […]
APAC's Banks Collaborate to Advance Blockchain Technologies
Recently, a consortium of banks in Asia – Singapore-headquartered OCBC Bank, UK-headquartered HSBC Bank and Japan-headquartered Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) – collaborated with one of Singapore’s government agencies, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), to successfully launch Southeast Asia’s first Know-Your-Customer (KYC) blockchain. Interactions between the stakeholders involved were key to the project’s success […]
A glance at Johnson & Johnson's open-innovation strategy in healthcare in Asia-Pacific
To kick off a busy innovation week in Singapore as the SWITCH festival starts today, I joined “Ecosystem Day”, and got an overview of Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s rather advanced innovation strategy in APAC. I knew Johnson & Johnson on their customer-facing side, but did not really know much about their product-building innovation engine. […]
FoodTech's 2 Key Impacts in Asia-Pacific
FoodTech and AgriTech startups were the key focus of the Future Food Asia Award 2017, offering an opportunity to look into the developing challenges towards the sustainable production of food in Asia as well as globally. Launched by ID Capital, and supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board and American food processing and commodities corporation […]
From General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt: 3 Key Takeaways from GE Digital Day Singapore
A year ago, I attended InnovFest Unbound, one of Singapore’s most attended tech conferences. InnovFest Unbound was founded by Yossi Vardi – the godfather of the Israel startup scene – in collaboration with NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The panel on corporate innovation included several companies – namely […]
How Do Corporations Deal With Blockchain Opportunities in Asia? [Infographic]
One of the innovation buzzwords in recent years is the blockchain. This technology permeates the underlying workings of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. But it holds huge potential outside of the payment sector and may even revolutionize the way the world economy works. How do corporations leverage on blockchain in Asia today? How big is the blockchain ecosystem in Asia? A key point […]
Hospitality in Asia : Hotels and Startups Are Reinventing Accommodation
Hospitality in Asia is about to be reinvented. What was once a market dominated by hotel conglomerates is now undergoing change with start-ups actively redefining the recipe for a satisfactory accommodation experience. Certainly, the revolutionary accommodation experience from Airbnb has paved the way for other enterprises that focus on hospitality in Asia. The region has […]
The Government Is The New Startup In India
One seldom associates the terms ‘innovation’ and ‘disruption’ with the government of a country. However, the government has taken on the role of a startup in India. The platform responsible for the greatest degree of market disruption is a project backed by the Indian government named the India Stack. The Government as a Startup in […]
Growing Functionalities of Messaging Apps in Asia
The role of messaging apps has evolved past that of simply messaging. Today, they are incorporated with online payment methods and offline-to-online (O2O) shopping amongst many others. At the forefront of such innovation stands WeChat and LINE – two apps that dominate the messaging activities of the Asian demographic. Beyond visually appealing stickers and a […]
