Kochi University School of Medicine has opened "Kochi University School of Medicine Open Innovation Center MEDi" in the center of Kochi City. On August 2021, 8, the opening ceremony was held online with the attendance of the Deputy Governor of Kochi Prefecture, Mayor of Muroto, Mayor of Sukumo, and members of the Kochi Prefectural Assembly. As a "place for regional co-creation," industry-academia-government officials will go beyond the boundaries of departments and institutions to verify R & D results, implement them in society, and foster an innovation mindset.
At the open innovation base "MEDi", issues are extracted from both macro-regional issues on the administrative side such as disaster medicine, corona countermeasures, and online medical care, and micro-care issues that summarize the voices of residents through fieldwork.Experts from different fields will find sustainable solutions that are not too biased toward either the government or residents, and will realize social implementation by engaging in cross-disciplinary involvement through industry-academia-government collaboration.
In addition, we plan to move into the workspace of companies that promote businesses in the medical technology field, such as digital therapeutic drugs, online medical care, and telemedicine. However, while receiving technical provision and advice, develop your own business.We aim to solve international problems by sharing the seeds of universities and tenant companies and solving problems-socially implemented results.
Kochi University is currently advocating becoming a "Super Regional University" that solves global issues from solving regional issues. In Kochi, a “problem-advanced prefecture”, it is necessary to flexibly incorporate new technologies into medical care in order to face the problems to be solved.Therefore, Kochi University School of Medicine focused on the possibility of healthcare innovation, and opened the "Medical x VR Study Course" in March 2021 and the "Healthcare Innovation Course" in April, and is an innovation human resource in the medical field. We are working on the development of.
