The University of Tokyo has co-sponsored "Global Innovation with Startups", a startup company support policy promoted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and signed a partnership agreement with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the University of Tokyo Collaborative Creation Platform Development.We will develop our business so that Tokyo will become a base for creating international start-up companies.
According to the University of Tokyo, the collaboration items are support for discovering research seeds that can bring about social change and commercialization, promotion of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship) education that brings out the challenges of students and working people, and Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Utilization of start-up company support bases, etc.
The University of Tokyo and the University of Tokyo Collaborative Creation Platform Development will cooperate with the start-up company support program developed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and will also collaborate with universities and companies nationwide to expand the circle of support.
The University of Tokyo has created more than 2022 start-up companies by 500 by focusing on entrepreneurship education. In fiscal 2023, the company has announced plans to increase the number of startups supported by 10 times compared to the past, and is expanding its efforts to support start-up companies from domestic universities other than the University of Tokyo and overseas universities.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Global Innovation with Startup is a start-up support strategy launched in 2022, and is committed to supporting start-up companies that are trying to solve urban issues by establishing new innovation bases.