Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation

What Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation does

Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (SIIRD) is a bilateral foundation established in 1997 and headquartered in Singapore. Its stated purpose is to promote, facilitate, and fund joint industrial research and development collaboration between Singapore-based companies and Israel-based companies, positioning it as a cross-border R&D intermediary rather than a product or service vendor. The organization operates with a very small team of 1–10 employees and maintains a public-facing web presence at siird.com. No further detail on funding mechanisms, program structure, application volumes, awarded projects, or technology platform is disclosed in the available input data.

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Name

Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation

Website

https://siird.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (SIIRD), founded 1997 in Singapore, promotes, facilitates, and funds joint industrial R&D collaboration between Singapore-based and Israel-based companies through a small bilateral foundation team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Bilateral R&D Funding and Innovation Collaboration

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Development Finance & Blended Finance Facilities (BPADAOAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Technical Cooperation, Capacity Building & Policy Advisory Programs (BPADABAO), Trust Funds & Multi-Donor Pooled Funds (BPADAOAE), National Development Banks & State Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) (BPADACAC)

Keywords

• Industrial R&D funding
• Joint R&D collaboration
• Bilateral innovation grants
• Cross-border R&D programs
• Technology collaboration facilitation

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

SIIRD promotes, facilitates and funds joint industrial R&D collaboration between Singapore-based companies and Israel-based companies. It administers bilateral R&D funding schemes, connects Singaporean and Israeli firms for joint project development, and co-funds approved collaborative R&D projects spanning the two ecosystems.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Joint Industrial R&D Collaboration Program Core bilateral program through which Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation promotes, facilitates and funds joint industrial R&D projects between Singapore-based companies and Israel-based companies.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration35 records

Regional players

• Enterprise Singapore: Enterprise Singapore drives innovation and enterprise development in Singapore, including international R&D partnerships. It shares SIIRD's Singapore base and mandate to grow local R&D capacity via cross-border collaboration.
• Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART): SMART is a Singapore-anchored R&D entity enabling joint research between Singapore institutions and MIT. It shares SIIRD's Singapore base and bilateral R&D mission, though operating more in academic research than industrial R&D.

Broad incumbents

• Israel Innovation Authority: Israel's national innovation funding agency supports a broad portfolio of R&D programs including international collaborations. It is a broader incumbent whose Singapore-focused programs could overlap with or complement SIIRD's mandate.
• EUREKA (European intergovernmental R&D network): EUREKA is a large multilateral network funding cross-border industrial R&D across many countries. While broader than SIIRD, it serves the same underlying function—facilitating and co-funding joint industrial R&D between companies in different jurisdictions.

Direct peers

• German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF): GIF is a bilateral foundation funding collaborative scientific R&D between Germany and Israel. Like SIIRD, it is a lean, mandate-focused institution that facilitates and funds joint research between two innovation ecosystems.
• Korea-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation: Korea-Israel R&D Foundation performs the same bilateral industrial R&D funding function as SIIRD but for Korea–Israel projects, making it a structurally close peer with comparable mandate, funding mechanism, and target applicants.
• BIRD Foundation (US-Israel Binational Industrial R&D Foundation): BIRD is the most direct structural analogue to SIIRD: a government-backed binational foundation that funds joint industrial R&D between companies in two countries. SIIRD applies the same model to the Singapore–Israel corridor.

Emerging players

• Israel–Asia Center: The Israel-Asia Center focuses on building Israel-Asia ties across business, innovation, and policy. It overlaps with SIIRD's Singapore-Israel innovation corridor focus and represents an adjacent emerging connector in the same bilateral space.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

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Investors

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M&A

Investments3 records

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