Driving Agri-Food
Innovations
The Singapore Agri-Food Innovation Lab (SAIL) is a national platform operated by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), in partnership with Enterprise Singapore, which seeds partnerships between SAIL’s corporate partners, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), startups, research institutes, and institutes of higher learning (IHLs) to drive agri-food innovations.
Singapore is home to over 70%
of the top agri-commodities trading companies in the world.
Singapore Agri-Food
Innovation Lab
The Singapore Agri-Food Innovation Lab (SAIL) is a national platform operated by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), in partnership with Enterprise Singapore, which seeds partnerships between SAIL’s corporate partners, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), startups, research institutes, and institutes of higher learning (IHLs) to drive agri-food innovations.
>20%
Singapore’s market share in global agri-commodities trade
CLSA
#5
Most innovative nation in the world
Global Innovation Index 2023
What We Do
SAIL supports its Corporate Partners across a range of business matching and co-innovation activities – working with them to establish their Challenge Statements on agri-food innovation, identifying partnership opportunities to find solutions, and organising knowledge-sharing sessions to match demand drivers and solution providers.
We facilitate agri-food innovation across
four focus areas
Sustainability
To ensure business sustainability and enhance food security
- Supply chain traceability and
transparency - Low carbon agri-food production
- Upcycling of food processing waste
Automation and Digitalisation
To improve crop yield and food quality, climate resilience, pest
management
- Data driven, automated, and closed loop agriculture
- AI, IoT in precision
agriculture - Remote sensing tools, spatial analysis and modelling
Agri-Inputs
- Crop nutrition
- Disease management
- Population genomics of crops
- Plant cell biology for crop enhancement
Downstream R&D
- Innovative food extraction
- Alternative food sources
- Risk assessment and food safety
Who We Work With
We work and engage with a diverse range of agri-food ecosystem players in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region to identify and drive impactful solutions to some of the most pressing business and sustainability-related challenges faced by our Corporate Partners.
Startups and SMEs
As potential solution providers for our Corporate Partners’ Challenge Statements
Incubators & Accelerators
To build networks of agri-food tech startups as potential solution providers
Research Institutes & Institutes of Higher Learning(IHLs)
To scout for cutting-edge agri-food research which could be translated into applied and commercial solutions
Financial & Institutions
To leverage sustainable finance for driving sustainability across agri-food supply chains
Government Agencies
To identify and create opportunities to scale and internationalise high-impact agri-food innovations
International Organisations and NGOs
To influence and shape regional and global policies, frameworks, and regulations that govern agri-food innovation
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Minister’s Remarks
Photo by WIPO / CC BY 4.0
The launch of SAIL today represents the Government’s commitment to support the growth of our vibrant agri-food industry ecosystem. I am confident that this tripartite partnership among the academia, private and public sector will sharpen Singapore’s competitive edge and enhance our position as the preferred trading and agri-food innovation hub.
Minister Gan Kim Yong
at the launch of SAIL, 24 November 2021
Our Partners
