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Enabling Electric Vehicles with Extreme Fast Charging

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Barely a glimmer of an idea at the start of the second millennium, electric vehicles (EVs) have swiftly captured the imagination and attention of the world. As the world’s largest vehicle makers electrify their offerings, the transition away from polluting internal combustion engines (ICE) will be complete within the next two decades, says Dr Doron Myersdorf, CEO and co-founder of StoreDot, a speaker at TechInnovation 2021, a virtual technology brokerage event presented by IPI from 28 to 30 September 2021.

Carving a Niche – Interview with Jacqueline Chen of Nordic Innovation House Singapore

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Scaling the best of the Nordics
Nordic Innovation House Singapore taps into its vast network of partners to offer Nordic businesses a leg up as they work to enter the Southeast Asian market.

What do companies like Spotify, Nokia and Novo Nordisk have in common? They have embraced the open innovatio mindset and represent the best of Nordic business practices, despite being from diverse industries.

Extracting New Worth from Food Waste

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Food waste valorisation: challenges and opportunities
Novel valorisation technologies could help industrial food producers reduce waste and turn it into high-value products. Download our white paper to find out more.

Securing enough food has been a prerequisite for mankind’s survival. Although humanity has long evolved from hunting and gathering to agriculture to widespread urbanisation, the need for food has remained the same or even intensified.

­Innovation Advisory Creates New Value through Efficient Upcycling of Spent Grains

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David Tan and his team mulled over their revenue for the first quarter of 2020, the lowest in their more than 45 years of business, through a virtual meeting at the start of Singapore’s circuit breaker in April. It seemed like there was no end in sight for the raging COVID-19 pandemic in both local and overseas markets as food operations slowed down tremendously, recalled Par International Holdings’ CEO.

Supporting Local and Going Green with Tropical Hardwood

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With the aim to salvage fallen trees in Singapore and transform them into sustainable products that are valuable, local woodworking and carpentry firm, Roger&Sons kickstarted the Local Tree Project in 2019.

The family-run woodworking business is committed to utilising local raw materials to create bespoke furniture and other wooden objects, but the management and handling of tropical trees in Singapore was not well-established. The existing technologies available to utilise these local trees and the machinery required to process them are still not fully optimised.

Carving a Niche – Interview with Irma Ylikangas of Helsinki Business Hub

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Cultivating cross-border cooperation between Singapore and Finland
For Helsinki Business Hub, finding new and unique ways to work with international partners is the key to successful innovation.

From emerging markets like Vietnam to more developed ones like China, large swathes of Asia are rapidly joining the ranks of industrialised countries. Buoyed by new wealth, Asian consumers are also propelling the region to become one of the world’s hottest markets for innovation and investment today.

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