Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore)

Supports Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry, coordinating enterprise, productivity, and growth policy across sectors.

Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry, MTI, is the central economic policy ministry behind productivity-led growth and the wider enterprise agenda. It oversees a large statutory-board system that includes A*STAR, EDB Singapore, Enterprise Singapore, JTC, the Energy Market Authority, and the Singapore Tourism Board, among others.

MTI is not a cash grantmaker in the usual sense. Its own direct routes are the First Mover Framework, the New Idea Scheme, and the Green Economy Regulatory Initiative, all of which are rolling Pro-Enterprise Panel channels that allocate public assets, government feedback, or regulatory sandbox treatment rather than grant money. GERI spans areas such as carbon services, circular economy, electric vehicles, hydrogen, energy, and sustainable maritime activity.

The ministry's role is to set the economic frame and let the statutory boards deliver the financing and operational schemes. That gives MTI a distinctive place in the Singapore system: it is the policy sponsor and intake gate for a few enterprise-facing instruments, while most capital and programme execution lives with the boards beneath it.