The National Lean LaunchPad Programme (LLP) was launched in 2013 to provide support for research scientists and engineers to commercialise their technological innovations into applicable products and in time, viable business ventures. Modelled after the United States NSF I-Corps programme and taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, the LLP programme is designed to fit the local context as an evidence-based innovation platform for the commercialisation of deep technologies.
What is it about?
Since 2018, SUTD has served as a decentralised satellite node to coordinate the LLP programme and catalyse the engagement of academic researchers from all publicly funded institutes to the programme. The satellite node network will scale up the market potential assessment of more technological innovations, to generate a pipeline of commercial technologies that may flow into downstream follow-on programmes.
The heavily intensive programme will equip them with the knowledge of critical success factors for commercialisation through an evidence-based validation process. This is done by encouraging the teams to get out and talk to potential users and customers, obtain feedbacks to better understand users’ needs and perspectives and then further develop on their product and business models to increase the chance of commercialisation.
Program Structure
The National LLP is conducted over a period of 10 weeks through the Lean methodology which emphasises rapid, iterative and low-cost experiential learning, with participants focusing on discovering customer problems that their technology can best solve, and exploring the right business model to deliver their solutions
Week 1
Bootcamp
Week 2 - 8
Track Workshops
Week 10
Final Presentations Day
Teams are grouped by technology domain tracks, with each track facilitated by a programme instructor experienced in the domain. Available programme tracks include
Engineering
Infocomm Technology (ICT, software-based)
Benefits of LLP
First national programme with expanded pool of instructors and industry mentors
Learn it the Lean way to validate your assumptions and create impact
Real hands-on learning how to determine the value proposition, MVP and establish product market fit so that to discover your product and technology’s beachhead market.
Eligibility
Project teams may apply to commercialise a technology project.
Each team should ideally have 4 team members:
A principal investigator/inventor or senior post-doc from SUTD
Researcher from SUTD
One team member as Entrepreneurial Lead
May include 1 or 2 other team members
Research teams supported by publicly-funded Institutes of Higher Learning and Research Institutes in SingaporeIndividuals may apply as Business / Entrepreneurial Leads to join a technology team. Graduates, MBA and MSc students, working professionals with business training or entrepreneurial experience are eligible.Participants must be residing in Singapore.
Acceptance Criteria- Minimum Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 – technology has some demonstrated technical feasibility.
For more information please visit: Lean Launchpad Singapore – COMMERCIALISING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS (nus.edu.sg).