The 9th Conference of the Association for Transdisciplinary Research] Envisioning the Future of Industry-Academia Collaboration / March 7, 2020, 14:00-@Ota-ku, Tokyo

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Planning and Evaluation Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Director and Planning Officer, Office of Policy Science
Keita Nakazawa
He joined the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2002. He was in charge of industry-academia collaboration and venture policy, space and ocean R&D policy, etc. In 2011, he was transferred to Osaka City Hall, where he was responsible for innovation policy as part of the Osaka Station North Exit development. Currently, he is working for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Cabinet Office's CSTI to formulate the 6th Science and Technology Basic Plan. He is currently implementing operational reforms, believing that innovation is what is needed in the planning and execution of policies at Kasumigaseki.

Representative Director, Bio Impact Inc.
Mr. Junichi Sugihara
The company operates "Nihon no Kenkyu.com," one of the largest databases of research topics and researchers in Japan, which combines information on funding for scientific research by ministries and research institutes with information on researchers and press releases. The company also conducts industry-academia collaboration matching and KOL searches for pharmaceutical companies, etc., using its proprietary analysis algorithms for research fields, etc., built using machine learning and natural language processing.

Director, OI Promotion Office, Organization for Future Society, Nagoya University
Mr. Yoshishige Koike
We are mainly engaged in sales support business for research reagent and equipment companies. Recently, we have been increasing the number of industry-academia collaboration matching and KOL searches for pharmaceutical companies, etc., using our original analysis algorithms for research fields, etc., built using machine learning and natural language processing.

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Representative Director, President and COO, Liverness, Inc.
Shuichiro Takahashi (Shuichiro Takahashi)
D. (Life Sciences), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. While still a graduate student, he founded LIVERNESS in 2002. While teaching at the University of Tokyo, he devised a unique business model for private-sector research grants and has initiated numerous projects that bridge industry, academia, and education. He is a member of the Graduate School Subcommittee of the University Sectional Committee of the Central Council for Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.