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Sustainability

Skills & Industry Reports

Innovations are directed toward developing smart and intelligent sensors with functionalities beyond sensing. 
 

The study covers 5 product segments: programmable AC source, programmable 4-quadrant AC source/load, programmable DC power, bi-directional DC power, and electronic AC/DC loads. It includes pricing details based on the power range for these product segments, applications by end-user industry, competitive analysis, and recent activities, as well as market sizing by product segment, region, and end-user vertical.

  • Singapore’s Digital Economy at 18.6% of GDP, up from 14.9% in 2019.
  • Pulse survey unveiled 3 in 4 workers are using AI tools regularly, with 85% of the AI-using workers polled finding that AI helps them to work faster and better.
  • SMEs’ AI adoption rate more than tripled in just one year: 14.5% of SMEs and 62.5% of non-SMEs adopted AI in 2024.
 

MOM: Singapore unveils data-driven human capital index to enhance workforce mobility and competitiveness

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has introduced the Singapore Opportunity Index (SOI), a human capital index that measures how employers support meaningful career growth and improve economic outcomes for their employees.

The SOI is the first index of its kind in Singapore that uses objective, verified government data from almost 1,500 companies and close to one million residents, to understand how economic mobility is forged in the workplace.

1st phase: national level insights report and comprehensive information on the SOI website, including its methodology. 2nd phase: featuring organisations who have demonstrated strong workforce outcomes Q1 2026.

Hyper Intelligence (Forging the Future) (43:33 min)

This video visits engineering firms where innovative technologists are using AI, such as developing robot rovers & flying drones to save lives in bold Search & Rescue missions. It introduces scientists who are creating AI robots that are achieving the beginnings of robotic consciousness, & other engineers developing real-world Androids – that is, robots that look, feel & act like people.

Da Vinci's Dream: The Secrets of Flight  (57:49 min)

Animal flight is one of the most complex tasks that evolution has ever managed to achieve. Leonardo da Vinci drew inspiration from nature to design the first flying machines. This video follows physicists & biomechanists who are decoding the aerodynamics of flying animals, and engineers & roboticists are working on building tomorrow’s bio-inspired drones & airplanes.

   

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MOM: Full Report of Job Vacancies 2024; Press release
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EDB: Singapore tops global innovation ranking of over 70 countries   
 

Future of Jobs Reports 
World Economic Forum, Jan 2025

This year’s edition captures the perspectives of over 1,000 employers, representing more than 14 million workers across 22 industry clusters & 55 economies. Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts & the green transition are among the major drivers expected to shape & transform the global labour market by 2030:

  • Broadening digital access
  • Increasing cost of living
  • Climate-change mitigation
  • Aging & declining working age populations
  • Geoeconomic fragmentation & geopolitical tensions

Skills Demand For the Future Economy Report 2025
Skillsfuture SG, Jan 2025

SSG studied 5 years of job posting data from 2019 to 2023, to understand changes to job requirements for skills, & the use of digital applications and tools (“Apps & Tools”), focusing on the priority skills in the Green, Digital and Care Economies. It also includes a deep dive on the Creative Industries, where jobs and tasks are both reliant on human ingenuity while also profoundly affected by advances in Information Technology

SSG: SSG Launches Interactive Dashboards on Jobs and Skills Data, Spotlights Singapore’s Creative Industries in Latest Skills Report 

MOE: Opening Address by Ms Gan Siow Huang, Minister of State, Ministry of Education for the Launch of the Skills Demand for the Future Economy Report 2025, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre

Government & Other Agencies

A*STAR: Celebrating A*STAR’s 2025 PSTA and YSA Awardees

CAAS: Broadcast Remote Identification Requirement For Unmanned Aircraft To Come Into Effect from 1 December 2025

CAAS: CAAS Sets Up Singapore Sustainable Aviation Fuel Company Ltd. (SAFCo) to Centrally Procure SAF

EDB: Business Expectations of the Manufacturing Sector Business Sentiments for October 2025 – March 2026)

EDB: Micron sees demand rising for its ‘Made-in-Singapore’ chips amid AI boom

EDB: Jobs in Singapore: “How I use my engineering skills to help people sleep better at night” 

EMA: Singapore's Energy Workforce Poised to Grow Over the Next Decade

EMA: Singapore and Sweden to Deepen Cooperation on Clean Energy and Regional Interconnectivity

EMA: Singapore Partners I-TRACK Foundation to Develop a Cross-Border Renewable Energy Certificate Framework

EMA: First IEA Governing Board Meeting in Singapore Underscores Strong International Energy Cooperation

EMA: Singapore and Australia Energy Regulators to Strengthen Energy Cooperation

EMA: EMA to Award Up to $44 Million to Operators of the First Two Advanced Combined Cycle Gas Turbines

EMA: New Initiatives to Future-Proof Singapore's Power Grid

EMA: Piloting Biomethane Imports to Support Singapore's Power Sector Decarbonisation

EMA: Singapore Deepens Cooperation with the United States on Nuclear Energy Capability Building

EMA: EMA Grants Conditional Approval for 1GW of Electricity Imports from Sarawak, Malaysia

EMA: Consortium Appointed for Next Phase of Study on Low- or Zero-Carbon Ammonia Power Generation and Bunkering Solution

EMA: Opening Remarks by Minister of State for Trade and Industry Gan Siow Huang at Youth@SIEW Singapore International Energy Week

EMA: Keynote Speech by Mr Puah Kok Keong, Chief Executive, Energy Market Authority at the 25th Conference of the Electric Power Supply Industry

EMA: Opening Remarks by Low Xin Wei, Assistant Chief Executive, Energy Technologies Division, Energy Market Authority at SIEW TechTable

EMA: Speech by Minister of State for Trade and Industry Gan Siow Huang at the Asia Clean Energy Summit

EMA: Singapore Energy Lecture by Minister-in-charge of Science and Energy & Technology Dr Tan See Leng

EnterpriseSG: NTU Singapore and US-based Activate launch S$12 million fellowship to accelerate science entrepreneurship and develop deep-tech start-ups

EnterrpriseSB: Singapore and Shanghai deepen collaboration in digital economy, financial services and innovation

IMDA: Digital for Life Festival 2025: Where everyone – Children, Youths, Adults and Seniors – can pick up digital skills and healthy digital habits 

IMDA: Smarter, Simpler, Safer: Singapore Offers Stronger Support to Help Local SMEs Go Digital with Confidence 

LTA: Introducing Monthly Rail Reliability Reports

MDDI: Opening remarks by SMS Tan Kiat How at the Singapore AI Capture-The-Flag event 

MDDI: Opening Address by SMS Tan Kiat How at Tech Week Singapore 2025 

MDDI: Opening Address by MOS Rahayu Mahzam at AICon @ BeyondXpo 

MDDI: Speech by Minister Josephine Teo at the Opening of SITxNVIDIA AI Centre 

MTI: Speech by MOS Alvin Tan at the Transport Logistic Southeast Asia & Air Cargo Southeast Asia 2025 

MTI: Speech by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong at SWITCH 2025 Opening Ceremony 

Other Industry News