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The Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) is a private-public panel of business leaders and senior public officers that aims to create a more pro-enterprise environment, enabling businesses to grow.

04/10/2024

On 18 September 2024, the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) held the 3rd session of the PEP Speakers Series, sharing the First Mover Framework and featuring the first accommodation built on Lazarus Island - Big Tiny, which was facilitated by Sentosa (SDC) and Singapore Land Authority - SLA (SLA).

Mr Adrian Chia, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Big Tiny was joined by Ms Kwee Eng Thien, Chief Executive Officer of SDC and Ms Wai Lin Thong, Deputy Chief Executive of SLA.

Using the case of Big Tiny breaking norms to set up accommodation on Lazarus Island, the panellists shared their perspectives on how regulations must remain fit for purpose to facilitate innovative business ideas and how regulators should balance between supporting operations and pushing boundaries.

To learn more about how PEP strengthens regulatory capabilities of Government officers and fosters exchange of insights on regulatory agility between the public and private sectors, look out for updates on our pages!

02/08/2024

In collaboration with our partners, the Public Service Division (PSD) and Civil Service College, the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) held the 2nd session of the PEP Speakers Series on “Working through Partners in Smart Regulation” on 23 July 2024.

This session featured the regulatory reviews that happened behind-the-scenes following an industry suggestion for wider adoption of electronic signatures across Whole of Government. While the decision to adopt electronic signatures seemed straightforward, the implementation was anything but easy due to the legal, security, and technical considerations. The panellists from both private and public sectors shared insights and exchanged views with public officers from different agencies on the possible impediments to digitalisation and ways to overcome them to better support the needs of agencies and businesses.

We would like to give thanks to
Mr Lim Der Shing (newly retired PEP member and Co-founder and Partner of AngelCentral, a venture capitalist company),
Mr Tan Ken Hwee (Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer of SG Courts), and
Mr Teo Shu Li (Senior Software Engineer of GovTech (Government Technology Agency of Singapore)) for sharing their experiences and knowledge at the session.

05/06/2024

Do you have an innovation that will reshape the urban landscape, elevate livability, or tackle the effects of rapid urbanisation and climate change?

The built environment curates spaces for our homes, workplaces, recreational spaces, and green areas. As Singapore intensifies its transformation journey alongside technological advancements, there are opportunities to enhance the efficiency of regulatory submissions, operations, and processes.

Whether you're optimising building designs, automating fabrication processes in factories, or improving building maintenance through an Integrated, Aggregated, and Smart Facilities Management, your insights matter. If you have feedback on existing regulatory processes to reduce compliance costs for businesses or improve overall efficiency, we are here to assist.

Simply share your feedback with us at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/PEP-Suggestions, or check out our initiatives at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/About-the-PEP.

28/05/2024

The PEP is a private-public panel comprising passionate industry leaders, supported by a network of senior public officers.

Its mission is to enable a pro-enterprise environment by regularly reviewing rules and regulations to encourage innovation, streamlining regulations to minimise compliance costs for businesses, and encouraging regulatory innovation to support new business models.

Since its inception in 2000, the PEP has received over 2,000 suggestions, and effected more than 1,200 changes in rules or regulations across various industries and domains.

Recently, the PEP held its Annual Appreciation Lunch Meeting to express our appreciation to the outgoing members for their invaluable contributions to the Panel, welcome the new members, and discuss regulatory issues to further strengthen our pro-enterprise environment. We would also like to thank SCDF for sharing on ongoing efforts to ensure that existing regulations remained fit for purpose to support enterprises’ growth in ermerging areas.

To learn more about PEP and our initiatives to support businesses, check out our website at www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/About-the-PEP

20/05/2024

Awarded the Pro-Enterprise Transformation Award at the PEP-SBF Awards 2023, Singapore Customs facilitated the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre in Singapore’s (HMGICS) high-tech electric vehicles manufacturing facility using automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

As HMGICS’ operating model of setting up a warehouse in the Free Trade Zone resulted in cumbersome procedures that impeded business efficiency and productivity, Singapore Customs reviewed existing legislations and streamlined approval processes for HMGIC’s vehicle manufacturing operations. Customs also collaborated with HMGICS and other key stakeholders (i.e. ICA, IRAS and PSA) to simplify Customs’ procedures for the outbound movement of goods from HMGIC’s warehouse at the Free Trade Zone to the manufacturing facility in Jurong Innovation District (JID).

Beyond supporting industry growth, this initiative contributed to potential time savings of approximately 1,600 man-hours per month for HMGICS.

Congratulations to Singapore Customs on the successful initiative in streamlining procedures and reducing business costs amidst an evolving automotive landscape!

17/05/2024

Are you ready to launch or trial your innovation but struggle to locate an ideal site?

If so, we strongly encourage businesses like yourself to tap on the First Mover Framework, which aims to provide first-of-its-kind ideas a head start with the use of public land and spaces. Successful applications will be awarded a direct allocation of state land or public spaces to test their product or services.

Find out more about the First Mover Framework at
https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/First-Mover-Framework.

15/05/2024

JTC and BCA regularly met with RM&D solution providers and lift contractors to formulate a regulatory sandbox and review trial results. The close partnership with BCA and JTC enabled businesses such as entrant RM&D solution providers and lift contractors, to refine their systems and operational processes to deliver better services and products.

Since the implementation of the sandbox, more than 10 building owners, with portfolios of more than 450 lifts, trialed their lifts with RM&D solutions. As the trials proved a success, in August 2022, BCA and MND amended legislation to implement RM&D solutions for lifts, publishing a world-first RM&D standard for the industry.

BCA’s commitment to embracing innovative technologies to enhance residents’ well-being and optimise operational efficiency for businsesses is truly commendable, earning them the Pro-Enterprise Transformation (Gold) at the PEP-SBF Awards. Congratulations to the team!

02/05/2024

The Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) is a private-public panel comprising industry leaders supported by a network of senior public officers. How does the PEP cultivate a business-friendly environment for businesses?

We initiate constructive dialogues with industry stakeholders requiring regulatory support and tackle complex business challenges - be it securing an ideal space for concept trials, or addressing cross-cutting issues that requires coordination across multi-agencies.

If you have insights on streamlining regulations for cost or time savings, or if you’re keen to test new ideas through a sandbox, do not hesitate to get in touch with us at [email protected], or check out our initiatives at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/About-the-PEP.

25/04/2024

Previously, flat buyers taking a housing loan had to approach HDB and Financial Institutions separately to source for information and assess which offers best suit their needs before applying for a loan.

The integrated housing loan application service was co-developed by HDB with 6 participating Financial Institutions - DBS Bank Limited, Hong Leong Finance Limited, Maybank Singapore Limited, Oversea-Chinese Banking
Corporation Limited, Sing Investments & Finance Limited, and United Overseas Bank Limited. To streamline the housing loan experience for flat buyers, HDB integrated the application service into the existing flat buying journey as one of the steps that flat buyers go through.

Through HDB’s determination and collaborative efforts with various stakeholders, this project became a reality. Congratulations to the team on this achievement!

16/04/2024

In collaboration with our partners, the PSD Singapore and Civil Service College Singapore, the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) held the inaugural session of the PEP Speakers Series on Smart Regulation 101 on 2 April 2024, with the Deputy Secretaries from MTI and PSD as panellists.

The PEP Speaker Series is a new brownbag initiative, targeted at officers doing regulatory work, and curated to engender a pro-enterprise and smart regulation conversation and mindset in regulators across the whole-of-Government. The series also aims to foster exchange of ideas on regulatory agility between the public and private sectors by inviting guest speakers or panellists to share their experience working with regulators and perspective on agile regulations.

The inaugural session was very popular and oversubscribed. Questions on how agencies may be better regulators came fast and furious and both Deputy Secretaries generously shared their experiences and thoughts in this area.

To learn more about how the PEP engages agencies and businesses, keep your eyes peeled on our pages!

04/04/2024

In collaboration with the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) since early 2023, the Association of Trade and Commerce Singapore (ATC) has facilitated public-private conversations, helping its business members better understand government support for innovations and build businesses’ confidence in embracing green initiatives through sandboxes such as the Green Regulatory Economic Initiative (GERI).

Recognising ATC’s catalytic role in steering the business community to rethink innovation and seize new business opportunities, as well as its active partnership with the PEP to foster a pro-enterprise environment, ATC was awarded the Pro-Enterprise Catalyst (Partnership) Awards at the Pro-Enterprise Panel - Singapore Business Federation (PEP-SBF) Awards 2023. Congratulations to ATC for the well-deserved award!

02/04/2024

Do you have an innovation that contributes to improving the health of our communities or unlocking greater capabilities for clinical research and productisation?

Under Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 plan, Human Health and Potential (HHP) is one of the four strategic domains focused on the transformation and protection of health, to advance human potential and create economic value for Singapore.

Especially with the shift toward new business models around big data and patient-centric care, innovative technologies may face overly onerous regulations that impose high compliance costs for businesses, or unclear regulations that require multiple agencies’ coordination.

Simply share your proposal with us at [email protected] to seek support in overcoming regulatory challenges that can support the translation of your ideas into market-ready solutions, or check out our initiatives at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/About-the-PEP.

22/03/2024

Join us in celebrating World Water Day and appreciating the importance of sustainably managing our freshwater resources.

As Singapore strides towards achieving our Green Plan targets, water innovation remains crucial. A significant milestone in this journey is the aim to
make Singapore’s first integrated waste and used water treatment facility, Tuas Nexus, 100% energy self-sufficient by 2025.

In pursuit of innovative solutions for water and environmental services, we invite businesses facing regulatory hurdles to share your proposals with us
through the Green Regulatory Economic Initiative (GERI) to access regulatory support.

For more information, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].

Let’s collaboratively drive sustainable practices and contribute to our global climate efforts.

https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/GERI

07/03/2024

Over the past year, our industry collaborations and dialogues have been both enlightening and impactful. From engaging dynamic start-up communities to having thought-provoking discussions with international counterparts and partnering government agencies - we fostered knowledge exchange, ideation and meaningful partnerships.

At PEP, we aim to continue have an open, pro-enterprise conversation with businesses through our industry engagement efforts, and empower them through initiatives like the First Mover Framework, New Idea Scheme and Green Economy Regulatory Initiative. These initiatives span diverse sectors, with the committment to drive regulatory innovation, streamline complex regulatory processes and reduce compliance costs for businesses.

Keen to explore how PEP can support you? Keep a look out for our upcoming engagement and networking sessions planned for the year! For more updates to connect and innovate, be sure to follow us .sg or write to us at [email protected] ☺

01/03/2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness, and created opportunities for tourism businesses to embrace green solutions. With STB’s projection of 51.5 - 61.6 million eco-conscious visitors expected over the next decade, there is an opportunity to cater to this growing market by creating more unique green experiences and moving towards more sustainable operations.

To build an innovation-fuelled and eco-friendly tourism sector, the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) is here to help. GERI (Green Economy Regulatory Initiative) accelerates innovation in the green economy by allowing businesses with innovative green business ideas facing regulatory hurdles to trial their ideas through regulatory sandboxes.

Share your proposal through GERI to overcome regulatory challenges and shape the Future of Green Tourism, or contact us us at [email protected] for more information.

https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/GERI

27/02/2024

In light of Singapore’s aging population, technology has been indispensable in ensuring the safety for seniors living alone. One such example is SoundEye’s LASSO Fall Detection System, which uses laser scanning and sound recognition technology to remotely detect falls.

To test the feasibility of the solution in a real-life environment, HDB conducted a two-month trial with SoundEye, identifying areas in homes with a high risk of falls and analysed senior residents’ activity patterns. With the success of this trial, HDB has gathered feedback from residents with the aim to offer this technology to more households across the nation.

A testament to how regulatory agencies can lean forward to support innovation from the private sector and help businesses capture new opportunities, the SoundEye-HDB collaboration was awarded the Pro-Enterprise Catalyst (Project) Awards at the Pro-Enterprise Panel - Singapore Business Federation (PEP-SBF) Awards 2023. Congratulations to SoundEye and HDB for driving positive changes to benefit residents and fostering a pro-enterprise environment!

10/02/2024

Wishing all our friends a very Happy Lunar New Year! May the Lunar New Year bring you and your loved ones abundant blessings, cherished moments and a year filled with joy, prosperity and success! 😊

09/02/2024

Together with our partners from NUS Enterprise BLOCK 71 NUS Enterprise BLOCK71 Singapore, Enterprise Singapore and Housing & Development Board, the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) held our 3rd industry engagement on 24 Jan 2024, where we connected with entrepreneurs within the vibrant start-up community!

To support businesses with innovative solutions and those looking to set up a shop in the HDB heartlands, the PEP shared about our initiatives such as the First Mover Framework, New Idea Scheme and Green Regulatory Economic Initiative. Enterprise Singapore in collaboration with the Housing & Development Board, also shared on the Heartland Innovation & Transformation (HIT) Programme and the Enhanced Entrepreneur Scheme (EES) – schemes that budding entrepreneurs may tap on to build their businesses.

Interested in finding more about the PEP’s initiatives to encourage innovation, or the HIT Programme and EES to bring in new concepts and products to our heartlands? Scan the QR Codes provided and seize this opportunity!

Learn more about the PEP at:
https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/About-the-PEP

Learn more about the HIT Programme at: https://www.enterprisesg.gov.sg/resources/media-centre/media-releases/2023/february/mr01023_heartland-innovation-transformation-programme.

Apply to the HIT Programme at:
https://form.gov.sg/63e9f65b627e2000135e7fab.

For more updates to connect, grow and innovate, be sure to follow us .sg 😊

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To all entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses - have an idea on how Government processes or regulations could be reviewed to help businesses save time and costs? Share your idea with the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) so that we can streamline processes and chart regulatory frameworks that enable businesses to go further. Find out more about PEP Suggestions at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/PEP-Suggestions

Hey Pro-Enterprise Panel, I do not need a public asset to testbed my solution. Instead, I have a new business model that would benefit Singaporeans but there are prevailing regulations that inhibit the implementation of my model. What should I do? Unable to find any suitable sandbox frameworks by any agencies? Check out the New Idea Scheme at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/New-Idea-Scheme

As the way we consume energy changes in the next two decades, we will start to replace petrol vehicles with electric vehicles. To accelerate our transition towards a greener future, the Green Economy Regulatory Initiative (GERI) is here to address the regulatory hurdles that you face and give you an extra boost to move your innovative green ideas forward. Find out more about GERI at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/GERI #GERI #greeneconomysingapore

Do you have an idea on how Singapore can achieve our vision of being a low-carbon economy? Regardless which new technology you are seeking to introduce, as long as your idea directly contributes to the green economy and faces regulatory hurdles or gaps, the Green Economy Regulatory Initiative (GERI) is here to help materialise your idea. Find out more about GERI at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/GERI #GERI #greeneconomysingapore

Curious how the First Mover Framework (FMF) works? Watch this video to understand more about the FMF and how it facilitates testbeds in Singapore. Tap on the FMF today! https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/First-Mover-Framework

At the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) - Singapore Business Federation Awards 2022, Minister Gan Kim Yong shared that the Government will need a nimble regulatory framework to help businesses optimise their resources, guide their activities, and enhance their competitiveness. As part of the PEP's pro-enterprise efforts, we would like to invite all entrepreneurs and innovators to share your prototype or solutions with us. Together with our agencies, we are committed to lean in to testbed your new idea towards a better Singapore. Share your New Idea proposal at https://www.mti.gov.sg/PEP/New-Idea-Scheme #greeneconomysg #proenterprisepanel #sustainabilitysg #smesg #startupsg #doingbusinessinsg #cuttingredtapes

PEP isn’t the new kid on the block for businesses. Established in 2020, we are a dedicated team supporting businesses in navigating the regulatory environment and facilitating a pro-enterprise environment in Singapore. The PEP is chaired by Head, Civil Service, and has members from both the public and private sectors. If you’ve got a question about the PEP or like us to talk about a certain topic relating to business and regulations, drop us a DM today! #askPEPanything #privatepublicpartnership #doingbusinessinsg #proenterprisepanelsg #agileregulations

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