Waseda University, Yamagata University, Tokyo University of Science, and Shiga Medical University received the adoption of the 2017 Next Generation Entrepreneur (entrepreneur) training project by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Concluded an inter-university agreement.

 According to Waseda University, the signing ceremony was attended by President Kaoru Kamada of Waseda University, President Kiyoto Koyama of Yamagata University, President Akira Fujishima of Tokyo University of Science, and President Kohei Shioda of Shiga Medical University. Promised to promote cooperation between the two.

 The four schools, including Waseda University, will collaborate with Waseda University as the main institution and Yamagata University, Tokyo University of Science, and Shiga University of Medical Science as collaborative institutions.In addition, 4 organizations such as Toyama Prefecture, Tama Art University, Honda R & D, and Okawa Dream Fund will work together to broaden the base of entrepreneurial human resources who will become global leaders in the future, and to create human resources who can actually create new businesses. It is trained by the fusion of literacy.In the future, we aim to grow four schools into bases for entrepreneurship development and contribute to the construction of a Japanese venture ecosystem.

 The next-generation entrepreneur development project is to develop human resources who will take on the challenge of new projects based on the results of research and development at universities, based on the results and issues obtained from the entrepreneur development education that universities in each region have been promoting. Aiming to build a venture ecosystem.
In 2017, in addition to 4 schools such as Waseda University, 6 schools such as Tohoku University, 4 schools such as the University of Tokyo, 5 schools such as Nagoya University, and 4 schools such as Kyushu University, a total of 5 groups were adopted.

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