Our services will solve issues in the way of open innovation by coordinating collaboration with various partners of startups, small and medium-sized enterprises, professional human resources, support organizations, centering on universities and university-initiated ventures, in response to the needs of companies regarding technical issues, management issues, new business creation and so on.
The coordinator of industry-academia-government collaboration, which is capable of handling wide areas both in domestic and overseas, will coordinate.
There are four major features.

01Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration and Open Innovation Support Services from the entrance to the exitThe coordinator of industry-academia-government collaboration, which is capable of handling wide areas both in domestic and overseas, will coordinate. There are four major features.

We will continue to conduct support consistently for corporate needs from project planning to practice.
For example, in the development of new products by industry-academia-government collaboration, we support overall in the phase of "planning review", "matching", "POC (pre-verification)", "joint research", "development of practical use", and "commercialization." In addition, we demonstrate the following strengths and make further efforts every day, and utilize it to improve the strength and organizational service of industry-academia-government collaboration coordinators based on ISO9001.

Entrance strategy

Project planning power to fix exit
※We plan project to fix the exit for practical use and social implementation, utilizing the actual result of supporting the industry-academia-government collaboration project overall.

Judgement power

Experience in exchange and technical studies with a variety of researchers
※From among various types of seeds, we will select and propose seeds information that is beneficial to the needs and characteristics of corporation.

Management support

Implementation experience of various industry-academia -government collaboration projects
※We conduct appropriate resolution and coordination of issues that tend to occur only in collaboration with universities.

Speed / Quality

Expansion of alliance partners
※We correspond quickly assignment of appropriate cooperators in the theme occurrence of a project.

Business support

Collecting of industry needs and market research experience
※We support the commercialization of new developed products by collecting and utilizing needs and trends in various markets and technologies field

Exit strategy

The accumulation of know-how that we experienced exit, including success and failure.
※We will consider how exit will lead to success based on the scene experience, and propose and implement measures to improve success rate.

02Independent National University Corporation the University of Electro-Communications TLO, and wide-area TLO

We will conduct a matching and management that contributes to the needs solution of companies, by using abundant network with universities and research institutions throughout Japan based on the strengths of the wide-area TLO.
We are also promoting the TLOI 2.0 (Technology Transfer Open Innovation 2.0) initiative that tackle as a consortium of technology transfer activities, and we are proposing the use of advanced universities seeds as a representative of the University of Electro-Communications.
We conduct neutral and flexible proposals and support based on independence without receiving investment from universities.

03Global Open Innovation

Our company is headquartered in Tokyo, and we have been promoting global open innovation for many years, since the establishment of a local subsidiary in Shenzhen city, China in 2007.
We correspond to both outbound of expand from Japan to the world and inbound of expand from the world to Japan, regardless of country or region.
We support globally 「international joint research and development」「research and utilization of advanced technologies」「utilization of technical personnel」「business alliance」「establishment of a base in Japan」.

04Data Driven Model Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration

We are aiming for a data driven model industry-academia-government collaboration, and we have acquired a trademark.
As a typical approach, we operate our own artificial intelligence knowledge management system.
This system has the following characteristics.

• We are collecting automatically and quickly the latest university seeds information put on view to the Web.
• We have built up our own data sets, based on the long-term experience of industry-academia-government collaboration.
• It is a search database that integrates information collected from external (Web) information and internal document information (survey data, study room visiting data and so on). It implements the recommendation function by AI when searching for seeds.

We realize the matching of effective industry-academia-government collaboration by judgement of the system and industry-academia-government collaboration coordinators.

We also promote the sharing economy of industry-academia-government collaboration, such as building a model that retired university researchers can play an active role.