The University of Tokyo and the Japan Business Federation are collaborating with the University of Tokyo and Keidanren to create and nurture venture companies that provide innovative technologies and social systems in order to strengthen Japan's competitiveness. "Meeting" was launched.

 At present, the era of major transformation of the industrial structure called "Society 5.0" * has arrived.In order to continue to create new core industries and high-impact businesses, full-scale open innovation that transcends industry-academia barriers is important. There is an urgent need to establish a function to promote the social implementation of cutting-edge technology through the "venture" of.

 In response to this situation, the University of Tokyo and Keidanren launched the "Todai-Keidanren Venture Co-creation Conference".In addition to holding regular forums for dialogue between top management of both parties, collaborative projects that provide entrepreneurial support and growth support programs that support entrepreneurial start-ups from the pre-startup stage and start-up stage, and acquisition of business skills We will collaborate with necessary university faculty members and Keidanren member companies to develop entrepreneurial human resources by utilizing the entrepreneurial human resources development program implemented by the University of Tokyo Industry-Academia Collaborative Creation Promotion Headquarters.

 The University of Tokyo has been energetically working to foster university-launched venture companies for more than a dozen years, and there are a total of about 280 related venture companies (as of November 2016).11 of them are listed, and their market capitalization has grown to over 16 trillion yen.The University of Tokyo and Keidanren are promoting the creation of best practices for industry-academia-government collaboration to create and foster venture companies that contribute to the creation of new core industries, centered on the "University of Tokyo-Keidanren Venture Co-creation Conference". We will further cooperate with the aim of expanding to companies.

* Society 5.0 is the catchphrase for the 5th term of the Science and Technology Basic Plan (FY2016 to FY20) created by the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of the Cabinet Office, which is the command tower of Japan's science and technology policy.The idea is to create a fifth new society through technological innovation, following the "hunting," "farming," "industry," and "information" that humankind has taken so far.

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