In order to further promote Japan's open innovation, the Cabinet Office has decided on the winners of the "Japan Open Innovation Award", which honors the highly original and leading efforts expected as a role model.
In recent years, as international competition for the creation of innovation has intensified, open innovation that transcends organizational barriers has been emphasized in order to quickly implement the results of research and development in society and to solve social needs. ing.Therefore, in order to further promote Japan's open innovation, the Cabinet Office has decided to award the "Japan Open Innovation Award" to initiatives with high leadership and originality.In the awards, the Minister's Award for each field, the Chairman's Award for economic organizations, and academic organizations were set up, and the best of each award was the Prime Minister's Award.
The first Prime Minister's Award was given by Professor Shigeyuki Nakaji (Hirosaki University) and Professor Koichi Murashimo (Hirosaki University). It was an innovation project.In Aomori Prefecture, which is said to have the shortest life expectancy in Japan, a project in which various teams analyze 1 items of health big data obtained from inhabitant medical examinations and work on the development of innovative disease predictive and preventive methods. More than 2,000 companies and research institutes have strongly collaborated under the banner of "Lifetime Revolution" to develop about 50 types of disease / pathological onset prediction models and related businesses.Private investment is expected to be about 50 million yen annually, with an estimated economic effect of about 3 billion yen, job creation of about 242 people, and curbing medical expenses of about 1,812 billion yen.
In addition, Professor Shunichi Koshimura (International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University) and others have won the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Award "Development and Operation of Real-Time Tsunami Inundation Damage Prediction System", and President Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University) has won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award. "Industry-academia co-creation from the basic research stage-organization-to-organization collaboration-" and "Tohoku Infrastructure Management Platform Construction and Deployment" by Professor Makoto Hisada (Tohoku University) and others were awarded the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award. ..
Reference: [Cabinet Office] Winner of the 1st Japan Open Innovation Awards
