December 26, 2022
ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ and BizReach, Inc. signed a comprehensive partnership agreement on December 15 to support the creation of new industries of the future. A press conference was held at ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡'s Mita Campus, attended by President Kohei Itoh, Vice-President Kotaro Yamagishi, Professor Seiko Shirasaka (Graduate School of System Design and Management), and Soichiro Minami, the founder of BizReach, Inc.
The agreement is aimed at supporting the creation of deep tech startups launched at ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ through the "ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ EIR (entrepreneur in residence) Model". The ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ EIR Model will match researchers who are seeking to launch a startup company based on their inventions with entrepreneurial business professionals, interested to collaborate with the researchers on a part-time basis, on BizReach, to build an EIR database. By focusing on working with potentially world-changing deep tech, ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ will produce world-class startups capable of thriving on a global scale.
The partnership is one measure of the newly introduced ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Startup Community Program to support the creation and growth of startups. With this move, ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ seeks to contribute to society by promoting the further acceleration of the advancement of global society through the real-world implementation of research outcomes.
*Masks were only removed during speeches and briefly for the purpose of taking commemorative photos.
Photo: Aki Takematsu