Mining The Deep Tech Seam Of Innovation For Healthtech Gold

Encouraging Scientific Advancement Is The Aim Of Singapore’s Multi Stakeholder Investment Organization

03 Mar 2021

Singapore-based SGInnovate has a unique multi stakeholder business model focused on identifying and funding Deep Tech start-ups. CEO Jui Lim now plans to increase the group’s activity in advanced manufacturing and “wetware” ̶ drugs and diagnostics – as firms increasingly are able to revert to pre-COVID business plans.

A steady stream of COVID-19 cases in Singapore has been seen in recent months, but unlike in many other advanced economies, incidence has decreased dramatically: since January, community cases have ranged from zero to four daily, and infection cases in travellers have averaged in the low teens ̶ all of which being detected at testing on arrival and during quarantine.

For a highly urbanized parliamentary democracy of 5.5 million people and a population density of 8,136 per square kilometre (third...