ASEAN Events

On 20th October 2023, Amy Weatherup and Dr Lara Allen presented the ASEAN i-Teams programme at the ASEAN-UK Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation, engaging more widely with ASEAN Member States and providing an opportunity to share the methodology and outcomes of ASEAN i-Teams, including the particular ecosystem-building benefits seen from many years of i-Teams implementation in Cambridge and how these could be translated into benefits for ASEAN Member States’ own ecosystems.

The UK Partnership Workshop on Artificial Intelligence took place on 26th March 2024, at St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge. A combination of in-person and online speakers and attendees. explored the opportunities in ASEAN for UK companies, across AI and Digital. The audience was highly engaged and enthusiastic about the opportunities presented.

The second UK Partnership Workshop was delivered through a series of smaller meetings convened to bring together researchers and startups in the UK and Indonesia potentially interested in working together in particular areas. The aim was to progress the partnership building process beyond the initial meet-and-greet stage to the possibility of collaboration through targeted match-making meetings. Areas addressed included water-testing (UK-based startup WaterScope and Indonesian-based Sensync Indonesia), medical oxygen for low resource settings (RO2 in the UK and Oxycon in Indonesia) and next generation solar photovoltaics (academic researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Bandung Institute of Technology working together to plan future research collaborations).

The workshop, delivered to an audience from the UK Technology Centre of Expertise and the FCDO on 27th March 2024, was titled "Inclusive Innovation: an approach to enabling research and innovation that contributes substantively to Sustainable Development”. The workshop drew on ecosystem-building case studies such as the ASEAN i-Teams programme, along with sector-focused interventions in climate, food security and health, outlining the principles, practices, programme and partnerships that make up the Inclusive Innovation approach developed by Dr Lara Allen. The topics included a discussion on responsible innovation, which is one of the principles of Inclusive Innovation, along with being impact-focused, co-created collaboratively based on mutual regard, and delivered with fair recompense and sufficient return.

Final presentations by the cohort of 21 HUST i-Teams students on October 10th 2023. The teams investigated the market opportunities in Vietnam for a water-testing kit (developed by UK startup WaterScope), supporting the establishment of local manufacturing hubs for molecular biology products (developed by UK social enterprise BeneficialBio) and a portable metal ECG monitor (developed by researchers from HUST).

Final presentations by the cohort of 21 ITB i-Teams students on March 25th 2024. Market opportunities were investigated for a new Hepatitis B test kit (developed by ITB researchers as Hepasona), a software tool for understanding organisational cultural dynamics (developed by ITB researchers as CultureMetrics), and a system to monitor and reduce energy usage in buildings (developed by UK startup CosySense).