Building Innovation Capacity in Southeast Asia (March 26)

March 26, 2025 (Singapore breakfast)

As international companies expand in Southeast Asia, they must navigate diverse market dynamics while ensuring their innovation strategies contribute meaningfully to business performance. Striking the right balance between corporate-led and open innovation is critical to sustaining competitive advantage against nimble local players.

This interactive roundtable will explore how multinational companies can build robust innovation ecosystems that align with global strategy while enabling localized agility. Discussions will focus on structuring innovation teams, optimizing external collaborations, and measuring the tangible impact of innovation initiatives.

Key themes include defining the optimal blend of internal and external innovation resources, managing in-house functions versus leveraging startups, universities, and agencies, aligning global innovation strategies with local execution, mitigating risks while maximising value creation from external partnerships, and measuring innovation initiatives' financial and strategic impact.