How can the Research Institutes (RIs) help me with my R&D project?
The RIs can work in partnership with you on your project. Typically, both parties contribute resources, e.g. funding, manpower, consumables, equipment, to ensure the success of the project. The scope, milestones and deliverables will be worked out jointly.

How does a collaboration benefit me?

• RI experience with managing R&D projects enhance chances of success
• Access to RI expertise & capabilities
• Access to high-end equipment
• Company staff gain research expertise and experience

Any assistance?
Eligible companies may enjoy some support from EDB.

How is this different from T-UP?
In T-Up, the project is an internal company project as the secondee is regarded as part of the company while in a collaboration, the company and RI will cooperate to complete and share in the results.

RI collaboration track record and some past examples
The following list of projects with the industry will give you an idea of the scope and types of projects we collaborate with the industry in the Science and Engineering fields.

Process and Manufacturing Technology:

• Locally produced instant water heaters - from concept to production - for a small and medium enterprise
• The development of a future-generation distributed controller for various industry applications
• The development of a sol-gel based coating processes for multiple industrial applications
• Flip chip assembly process for leading-edge hearing aids
• Aluminium turbocharger impeller repair process for marine applications
• The development of an automated wing surface inspection system for an aerospace company.
• Lead-free Characterisation and Reliability studies 

Electronics:

• Failure analysis for hard disk drive industry
• Launch of Storage Solution Centre for advanced storage applications development.
• The development of a prototype DVD-RAM 4.7GB disc
• The development of a Low Temperature Bonding Technique for Inorganic Oxide Based Substrates
• RFID Tag IC Design 
• The development of an ultra thin package for RF transistors
• Process Development for Integrated Optical Devices 
• 8-inch Wafer Bonding Process Technology for the 3- Dimensional Integrated Circuit

General Engineering:

• The development of Aluminum Turbocharger Impeller Repair for Marine Applications
• Fabrication of Mold Inserts for Lens Array and Fiber Connector Lens
• Knowledge-based progressive die design
• Vibration and noise analysis of optical motor drive assemblies
• Research on advanced mode-stirred reverberation technology for reverberation chamber construction
• Mathematical modeling of fume evacuation from a gun barrel

Infocomms Technology:

• An intelligent and automated real-time cargo inventory control system for warehouses
• Enhancing the performance of a Broadband Global Access Network (BGAN) transceiver design
• The development of a WCDMA Mobile Terminal
• 802.11a RFIC Development
• R&D projects to develop network storage technology
• The development of face recognition technology
• The development of smart, automatic video production software
• The development of an open services residential gateway for broadband services  

Bioinformatics:

• Prediction by Collective Likelihood of Emerging Patterns and its application to childhood leukemia.
• Histocompatibility complex (MHC)-binding Peptide Prediction.
• The development of Dragon Promoter Finder and Gene Start Finder.

Contact information for further discussions:
To see how you can explore a joint project with our RIs, please click here for full listing of of our RIs or contact A*STAR at 6826 6111 or e-mail: a-star_contact@a-star.edu.sg. Please refer to our location page for more details.