Kikuo Hayakawa, NOST Tokyo
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Samenvatting
Op 14 april 2014 opent een nieuw open innovation lab in Kashiwa-no-ha campus city, Japan. De Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab (KOIL) is een volledig nieuw type faciliteit die open innovatie promoot. Kashiwa-no-ha is een nieuwe smart city net buiten Tokio met onderzoeksinstituten van de gerenommeerde University of Tokyo, Chiba University en het National Cancer Center. Ook wordt er de de Asian Entrepreneurship Award uitgereikt, internationale business competitie. En Tx Entrepreneur Partners, een belangrijke organisatie die startup ondersteunt, heeft een hoofdkantoor in Kashiwa-no-ha. Koil opent op 10 april de deuren voor nieuwe entrepreneurs en bedrijven, en hoopt snel uit te groeien tot een belangrijk open innovatie centrum.
Details
Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab (KOIL) will be opened in a smart city, Kashiwa-no-ha campus, on April 14, 2014. Kashiwa-no-ha is located a thirty-minute distance by train from the center of Tokyo. KOIL is a completely new type of facility designed to promote open innovation in Japan. KOIL has an extensive ten thousands m2 site. Using this wide area, KOIL will accommodate a large co-working room of a capacity up to two hundreds people for a variety of purposes and digital fabrication tools such as laser cutters and 3D Printers (Fig. 1). KOIL aims to bring together individuals from every field, transcending regional and national boundaries, and attracting innovators at the leading edge. And KOIL aims to pull together all the diverse connections such as people and ideas, individuals and corporations, researchers and creators, science and industry, technology and design, start-ups and opportunities, present and future. KOIL has been designed and developed by Japanese companies, Mitsui Fudosan and Loftwork. A Japanese leading startup supporting association, Tx Entrepreneur Partners (TEP) and Naruse-Inokuma Architects are KOIL’s operation committee members. Already twenty research institutes and eighty companies are confirmed to enter KOIL. KOIL is planning a range of events, seminars and programs, featuring some of the hottest names in innovation. KOIL will start recruiting tenants from April 10. KOIL hopes to be one of the open innovation centers for the near future. KOIL is looking forward to possible international collaborations.
Kashiwa-no-ha campus
Kashiwa-no-ha campus city is located at the mid point of the Tsukuba Express railway line between Tokyo and Tsukuba City. Kashiwa-no-ha is a new smart city including a cutting-edge research institutes such as the University of Tokyo, Chiba University and the National Cancer Center (Fig.2). The above mentioned TEP has a head office in Kashiwa-no-ha campus. (2) TEP is a private association to support startups and it has started its activities since 2009. TEP consists of twenty angels and fifty supports, taking care of about a hundred startups and entrepreneurs currently. Since 2012, Kashiwa City has hosted the Asia Entrepreneurship Award (AEA) held in Kashiwa-no-ha campus. AEA has received more than twenty Asian startups from twelve countries and regions such as Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. The winner receives a prize of twenty one thousands euro and an opportunity of a free rental office at Kashiwa-no-ha campus for three years.
Figure 1. KOIL (source: KOIL)
Figure 2. Kashiwa-no-ha Campus city (source: Tx Entrepreneur Partners)
Currency:
1 euro = 142 yen (as of April 4, 2014)
Sources:
1) Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab
2) Tx Entrepreneur Partners(TEP)
