Strengthening Swedish companies´ innovation capacity within AI through collaboration with Singapore

Purpose and goal:

The goal is to do a trip to Singapore to start an innovation collaboration that will lead to increased AI knowledge transfer between SMEs, academia, AI experts and innovation actors in both countries, e.g. through international pilot projects for SMEs in circularity and AI. Through the project, Swedish and Singaporean SMEs are expected to gain increased access to advanced AI knowledge, technology and talent in the long term, which increases their innovative capacity and opens doors for new innovation opportunities that contribute to sustainable economic growth in both countries.

Expected results and effects:

A collaboration would contribute to raising the level of competence in AI in both Sweden and Singapore through knowledge exchange and joint innovation projects. By bringing together experts, companies and academic institutions from both countries, a platform is created where new AI applications and solutions as well as good guidelines for the responsible and sustainable use of AI can be developed.

The collaboration will also provide participating organizations with new methods and tools to stimulate innovation in SMEs so that they can more quickly adopt digitalisation and AI. Approach and implementation:

A trip to Singapore is planned during spring/early summer 2024. Before and after the trip the actors will carry out other planning that is possible remotely and set milestones for the project in a joint project plan. The hope is to be able to start an innovation collaboration with project within 2024.