Until now, when it comes to open innovation in Japan, the combination of "large companies x startups" has been common, but in recent years, industry-academia collaboration based on the combination of "companies x universities" has been attracting attention.For example, at the "2019st Japan Open Innovation Awards" sponsored by the Cabinet Office in 1, a project by three corporations, "Hirosaki University x Maruman Computer Service x Kao", received the Prime Minister's Award.

　However, it is extremely rare for Japanese universities to actually be implemented in society, even though each has excellent research seeds.Therefore, eiicon company has created the "University Open Innovation 75 Selection Chaos Map (2020 Edition)" that summarizes the innovation bases that universities nationwide are working on by prefecture.Industry-academia collaboration through open innovation will flourish, and the research seeds that were sleeping at the university will be returned to society, aiming to become a source of innovation.

　Among the 41 bases established in 75 prefectures nationwide, along with more than 30 companies and institutions, "food and exercise" that is optimal for each person's health condition is "friendly to women, children and the elderly." Hokkaido University COI, which created a base aiming to realize "society", Keio University Innovation Promotion Headquarters, which promotes large-scale industry-academia collaborative research and development with the goal of "creating a smart society that supports healthy longevity in the age of 100 years of life" and so on.

Reference: [TOMORUBA] 2020 selections of university open innovation for 75