Baby Shark Fund
SUTD Innovation Journey
The SUTD Innovation Journey is a complete suite of activities to help you level up your innovation knowledge and build competency in innovation.
You are the pilot of your course through the suite of innovation activities to help you prepare for various pitching platforms. These activities serve as a directory and will be updated regularly to help you find your journey through SUTD.
Designing Your Journey
Are you overwhelmed by the choices of innovation activities and programmes within SUTD? The Innovation Journey categorises these programmes to help you gain incremental experience and knowledge in innovation, culminating in various innovative outcomes.
The best part? You decide what works for you; join at any stage or programme, and in any order. You can design your entire academic journey centred around innovation across your time in SUTD – now that is a neat plan.
EXPLORER
Stage focus: Ideation, Validation, Problem-Solution Fit
Are you taking the first step in innovation? These courses and workshops are designed to help you grasp fundamental concepts in innovation.
Freshmore Curriculum
- 3.007 Design Thinking and Innovation
Exchange Programmes
- Overseas exchanges, summer programme, FACT trips focusing on innovation
- See Global Exchange Programmes page
SUTD-led Hackathons
- WTH – What The Hack
- RoboClash
- SUTD x ESSEC Create4Good Hackathon
- Dive Deep SG
Entrepreneurship Programmes
- STARTSOMETHING Series
- ESG MasterClasses
ENTHUSIAST
Stage focus: Prototyping, Validation, Early Product-Market Fit
Do you have an idea but are not sure how to take it forward? These touchpoints help bolster your understanding of innovation and help turn your idea into a real-world solution.
Internship
- Internship in a start-up or corporate innovation team
Curriculum (Pillars/Clusters)
- 10.020 Design Thinking Project III (2D Project) (Term 3)
- 10.023 Designing Engineering System (Term 3)
- 20.111 Sustainable Option Studio 1 (Term 6)
- 20.112 Sustainable Option Studio 2 (Term 8)
- 30.007 Engineering Design Innovation (Term 5)
- 30.111 Entrepreneurship (Term 6)
- 40.011 Data and Business Analytics (Term 4)
- 40.014 Engineering System and Architecture (Term 5)
- 50.001 Information Systems & Programming (Term 4)
- 50.003 Element of Software Construction (Term 5)
- 60.003 Product Design Studio (Term 4)
- 60.004 Service Design Studion (Term 5)
- Prototype2Product Programme (Engineering Product Development)
Entrepreneurship Programmes
- Open innovation call
- ARISE programme
- Create4Good Innovation Fund
- Other pre-accelerator programmes
ENABLER
Stage focus: Mentorship, Network, Deployment
Committed towards innovation? This stage brings additional support to take your solution to the next stage.
Curriculum (Pillars/Clusters)
- Lead a deep tech team for 12 months
Entrepreneurship Programmes
- Build a company as a founder/co-founder
- Secure verified external grant to support and fund project
Others
- Successfully deploy solution into a verified host user
Start Your Journey
The SUTD Innovation Journey is part of the Baby Shark Fund supporting every SUTD undergraduate and master student in developing innovative solution for the world.
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Frequently asked questions
Who are our assigned mentor(s) and how will we work with them?
Need to speak with someone? Chat with our programme coordinator who will help you get all the answers you need.
Can we have grants that overlap each other?
No, you should only hold onto 1 grant at any one time.
Can I use the same idea for all the grants?
Definitely! However, each successful pitch will have a different set of milestones attached to each award to help push your project development forward.
How many times can my team pitch for the grant?
As many as you like! However, each successful pitch will have a different set of milestones attached to each award to help push your project development forward.
Do all my team members have to be from SUTD?
No, but each team will have to satisfy the criteria of minimum 2 team members who are either current SUTD undergraduate or master students at least 6 months from graduation.
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