Growing Enterprises through Technology Upgrade (GET-Up)

GET-Up is a pro-active integrated approach aimed at boosting the global competitiveness of local technology-intensive enterprises to equip them for the knowledge-based economy.

We call these SMEs which aspire to grow with technology upgrading the "Growing Enterprises" or "GEs" in short. Receptive GEs will be able to leverage on the technical assistance and manpower secondment from A*STAR Research Institutes to upgrade themselves, in addition to the currently available financial incentives and assistance from EDB, SPRING Singapore and IE Singapore.

Objectives

To help promising local companies grow, glow and globalise through a holistic & integrated approach by harnessing the existing schemes of EDB, SPRING Singapore, IE Singapore and the technical capabilities of A*STAR Research Institutes to address their financial, human resource and technology constraints.

Programme Description

To make the combined resources of various agencies available to companies, GET-Up will involve the following:

Initial company visit to understand areas of required assistance -
Follow-up actions by relevant agencies
Tailoring of a package of existing financial schemes and possible technical assistance from the Research Institutes for the company.

Eligibility

The initiative is targeted at GEs which are promising local enterprises, which need technology upgrading. Current financial incentives from participating government agencies will be used where applicable.

Contact Details

For further information, please email Dr. Lim Ee Meng at a-star_getup@a-star.edu.sg.