Tokushima Prefecture's "Plan for industrial development and job creation for young people through the creation and application of next-generation 'light'" in which Tokushima University participates has been adopted as an additional government-funded investment framework (deployment framework) in fiscal 2023, when the Cabinet Office's government-funded support project ends. rice field.Tokushima University will establish the Next-Generation Light Incubation Organization (provisional name) on campus to develop human resources for companies inside and outside Tokushima Prefecture, and will aim for smooth development from research to commercialization.
According to Tokushima University, the next-generation optical business is centered on Nichia Corporation in Anan City, which produced Shuji Nakamura (currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara), who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Second, in Tokushima Prefecture, where the optoelectronics industry is concentrated, we will promote the creation and application of the optoelectronics industry that will be required in the next era, aiming to promote industry and create jobs for young people.
Since the adoption of the project in 2018, the University of Tokushima has set up the "Post-LED Photonics Research Institute" with the world's top-level researchers on campus with the aim of applying it to the field of comprehensive medical science. We have been promoting human resource development by establishing a medical light/medical engineering fusion program.
From fiscal 2023, we will position “all-optical terahertz communication” for next-generation mobile communication and “non-invasive breath biosensor using metamaterials” for home hospitals as research priority areas, and create world-class results and Promote social implementation.
The additional investment by the government will continue for up to four years if there is more progress than planned.Through the next-generation optical business, Tokushima University hopes to play a role in revitalizing Tokushima Prefecture, which is suffering from a declining population and an outflow of young people.
