Agorize Japan solves management issues regarding the following innovations as one of the biggest open innovation platform providers, based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Overseas Startup Investment / Business Corroboration / Product Development
・Acquire technology sees meeting company’s needs
・Commercialize new products by utilizing internal dormant resources
・Invest overseas a part of CVC portfolio
- Recruiting Overseas Human Resources
・Drive hiring foreign human resources in terms of diversity
・Solve difficulties to hire excellent engineers
・Get excellent talents who can lead expanding the business overseas
- Overseas Marketing / Branding
・Modify and localize existing products for local market in overseas countries
・Promote marketing initiatives based on local needs / pain in overseas countries
・Execute test marketing overseas
Agorize provides 4 kinds of open innovation challenges for the above business issues.
□Startup Challenge
Collect technologies and business plans from startup companies in each country to discover new technologies which currently lack in your company and/or optimize internal dormant technologies.
Also, realize corroborations with overseas partners and invest in services which can solve issues / pains in each country.
□Student Challenge
Let students study solving problems which your company is facing by optimizing their power of idea and fresh sensitivity. Also, create opportunities to meet excellent university students in overseas counties, who seldom come up in the ordinary new grads hiring market in Japan and contribute for raising up your employer’s brand and awareness in the hiring market.
□Online Hackathon
Organize a team via online network and let the team challenge producing a protype software over several weeks. It realizes to meet excellent engineers and verify business assumptions quickly.
□Internal Flotation
Let your staffs’ team challenge solving business issues by utilizing Agorize’s platform to get a more practical idea and motivate your staffs as well as asses their suitability.
□White Label
Agorize provides an operating platform for various innovation programs worldwide like one of the biggest open innovation festivals, called “Viva Technology” and so on. Agorize agrees to provide only the platform without disclosing name of Agorize.
□Innovation Eco-System Corroboration
Agorize arranges corroborations with major innovation eco-system providers and sets up events, etc. Please ask us about the details.
Agorize has abundant experiences and supported more than 1,000 innovation projects for Japanese, European and Asian companies as the following examples.
□Agorize Network is adopted by more than 250 companies in the world.
Many leading companies in various business categories such as human resource, finance, IT, internet, infrastructure, logistics, retail, consultation, education etc. have accelerated innovations using Agorize Network.
□Innovator network with more than 5 million people worldwide
Agorize has built up a huge network with 3 million students, 1 million engineers and designers, 300 thousand startups, 800 thousand members in societies. The network communities are now expanding in U.S, Africa, Middle East based on the successes in Europa and Asia.
Also, EDGEof, Inc. and Agorize Japan jointly established and are operating a community called Global Open Innovation Symposium (GOIS) to drive creating new values through open innovations with Japanese companies and overseas innovators.