We are a one-stop design and solution center for SMEs.
A center dedicated to support Singapore's SMEs from the ideation stage to the design and engineering stage, allowing them to become product owners to venture into higher value markets.
The Innovation Factory is located within the Jurong Innovation District (JID) and is supported by more than 500 researchers and scientists in SIMTech and ARTC.
The Innovation Factory is a national platform supported by EnterpriseSG, led by SIMTech, A*STAR with the aim to accelerate the design thinking and innovation journey, and the transformation of ideas into commercially viable products that are ready for market adoption.
The Innovation Factory plugs the current gaps in companies looking to develop new products and introduces design and engineering expertise in industrial design and product design, to catalyse innovation and scale up to production. We help companies find better ideas faster, define and prototype novel product and business concepts, gather data on viability and profitability based on evidence-based decisions and build a balanced innovation portfolio across your intended markets and new horizons. The Innovation Factory also provides a co-working space for companies to tinker and ideate, with equipment and software tools for prototyping.
Vision
The one-stop design and solution centre for Singapore SMEs.
Mission
To support SMEs from ideation to design and engineering stage, and migrate them to product owners in order to venture into higher value markets.
Core Capabilities
- Innovation Mission and Strategy Sprint
- Opportunity mapping, trend, and competitive analysis
- Consulting and designing the path to innovation-lead business growth
- Ideation workshops
- Product Design
- Service Design
Roles
- Scope and execute projects by leveraging a network of subject matter experts and design partners
- Provide our members a best-in-class R&D lab infrastructure for design, engineering and application development.
Initiatives
Consultancy Projects
Our cross-disciplinary team with varied interests, skills and expertise offers companies professional advice for designing and developing a product. We work with a wide range of companies coming from different industry sectors, thus understand that every project is unique and we strive to fill in the gaps to ensure all requirements are met.
Design and Development Projects
When engaging companies, our team of consultants will discuss the Go-To-Market strategy of the intended solutions with problem owners, assess the viability of market adoption of the intended products or services, and approve projects for execution. The team will also conduct rigorous technical design reviews at different gates of the projects.
Ideation and Design Workshops
Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving with a strong emphasis on user empathy, collaboration, creative ideation, co-creation with rapid prototyping and stakeholder feedback. The purpose of the design workshops is to provide opportunities for companies to embrace empathic tools to develop insights about the users. We partner with distinguished trainers to provide Design Thinking, Design Standards, user-centric and/or similar workshops and training.