Innovation catalyst Padang & Co partners with Royal DSM to tackle nutrition, health and sustainability

Royal DSM– a global company active in nutrition, health, and sustainable living has joined hands with Singapore-based innovation catalyst Padang & Co to enable the co-creation of solutions to tackle the region’s nutritional, health and sustainability challenges.

They signed an MoU to launch a new innovation hub in Singapore that is set to open its doors in the first quarter of 2020. Named the Bright Science & Technology Innovation Hub it will engage and connect DSM, technology startups, entrepreneurs, and other corporate and ecosystem partners in the material and life sciences ecosystem.

The Innovation Hub will be a collaborative workspace for startups, as well as teams from DSM’s collaborations with other institutions. It will host events to stimulate learning and connections, and programs to build capabilities. Startup members will also have access to DSM’s laboratories for the prototyping and development of nutritional products.

Connected with DSM’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, the Innovation Hub builds on the company’s commitment in promoting equitable access to healthy food and nutrition, tapping into its scientific competencies in material sciences to create better and more sustainable materials, while promoting low- carbon technologies and a circular economy. These objectives are aligned with the SDGs: 2 (Zero hunger), 3 (Good health and wellbeing), 7 (Affordable and clean energy), 12 (Responsible production and consumption), and 13 (Climate Action).

Pieter Nuboer, President DSM Nutritional Products, Asia Pacific, said: “Asia is facing daunting demands for resources and energy to provide prosperity for society at large. With our current patterns of production and consumption, these demands simply cannot be sustained within planetary boundaries. Innovation through new applied science and business models will be the key to the radical overhaul required from nutrition to materials. We are proud to extend our resources to a community of like-minded partners that will drive co-creation of breakthrough solutions we all need to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”

With the Bright Science & Technology, Innovation Hub DSM also hopes to represent the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and accelerate its digital transformation for purpose-led, performance-driven growth in Singapore and beyond.

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