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| The different projects around the country are engaged in many different activities, producing many different achievements. Here, we introduce some of the typical activities and achievements. |
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| Matching SMEs and large corporations | Support Activities for Networks in Keihin Area |
Keihin Gateway Project
- Horizontal technological matching between SMEs and large corporations |
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| The staff and coordinators of industrial support organizations that participate in the Industrial Cluster Project select SMEs and venture companies with excellent technological and product development capabilities, and the coordinators then strive to match these with the optimal large-scale manufacturers through hands-on support of the participating SMEs and ventures.
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There have been three new business matching forums to date, with a total of 74 SMEs and 37 large corporations participating. The forums provide a place for SME seed presentations and individual meetings, with SMEs commenting that their participation led to the development of new business, or that they more clearly understood the needs of larger companies, while the large corporations noted that the forums were an excellent opportunity to discover new high technology.
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Hideo Ai
Cluster Coordinator
Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki
Our efforts are bearing fruit as we strive to create new business by leveraging the excellent technology of SMEs and linking with large corporations. I think the key to this is getting the large companies to better understand the technological capabilities of SMEs. We will continue to work for broader recognition of SME capabilities by building relations with all SMEs based on mutual understanding. |
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Organization: Institute of Industrial Promotion Kawasaki
TEL:+81-44-548-4113 URL:http://www.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/ |
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| Matching SMEs and large corporations | Project to Create Manufacturing Industry in Tokai Region |
Information Support Net (Chubu Economic Federation [Chukeiren] evaluation system)
- Chukeiren member company advice for and technological evaluation of cluster companies |
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| The Information Support Net is an arrangement for specialists from large-scale manufacturers, trading companies, and banks to evaluate the new technologies proposed by SMEs and venture companies. Through the Information Support Net, Chukeiren member companies can offer advice and business matching opportunities.
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There are currently 169 companies, groups, universities, and other organizations registered with the Information Support Net. There were four evaluation requests from the Tokai Factory Council in FY 2007, and three in FY 2008.
The Information Support Net has garnered an extremely favorable reputation from both proposers and industry (the users) for evaluations from an industry standpoint, such as by providing a means for specialist technicians at corporations to directly advise technology proposers.
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Yoshitaka Kuwahara
Cluster Manager
Tokai Factory Council
Many of the members of the Tokai Factory Council are SMEs presenting new products using excellent technology. Council members gain frank evaluations of their new products from the high-tech large companies making up the Information Support Net, as well as opportunities to meet potential business partners, and I look forward to further member company developments via the Information Support Net. |
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Organization: Industrial Cluster Project Support Office, Chubu Science and Technology Center
TEL : +81-52-231-3043 URL:http://www.cstc.or.jp/ |
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| Matching SMEs and large corporations | Kansai Front Runner Project Neo Cluster |
Digital Concept Partners (DCP)
- Matching prospective technologies and business seeds from around the world with large-scale IT companies based in the Kansai Region |
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DCP Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (DEATEC) |
| This is an effort to match up the excellent technological products and ideas of venture companies and researchers around the world with large-scale IT companies, leveraging the Kansai Region’s high concentration of industry and academics in the consumer digital electronics fields.
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The project was started in November 2006. As of 31 March 2009, there were 383 proposals both within Japan and overseas, and 107 meetings held. 22 contracts had either been signed or were pending.
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Takao Horie
General Cluster Manager
Kansai Front Runner Project Neo Cluster
The Kansai Front Runner Project is underway in the aim of forming Futuristic Digital Electronics Cluster including the manufacturing and energy sector.
DCP is one aspect of these cluster efforts, and DCP members will continue matching excelling seed ideas and technologies with large IT companies.
We look forward to receiving your proposals. |
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Organization:
Domestic Regional and Industrial Renovation Team, Kansai Institute of Information Systems & Industrial Renovation
TEL : +81-6-6346-2981
Overseas Economy and Industrial Division, Osaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry
TEL : +81-6-6944-6403
URL:http://www.neocluster.jp/dcp/ |
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| Matching SMEs and large corporations | Metropolitan Bio Network Japan |
Alliance Promotion (Business Matching Seminar)
- Promoting alliances nationwide between drug discovery bio ventures and big pharmaceutical companies |
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| As many of the big pharmaceutical companies that are the main alliance partners of drug discovery bioventures are located in the Tokyo metropolitan area, this project holds matching events in the Tokyo metropolitan area that pull together the promising drug discovery bio ventures from around the country. To increase the opportunities for matching, the project held the nation?s largest bio-related exhibition, Bio Japan, in 2008.
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The 2008 Alliance Promotion event saw presentations from 40 different bio ventures, with a total of more than 1,000 people attending over the course of the three days. There were more than 150 business talks held during Bio Japan, and many attendees commented that coming to the Alliance Promotion event gave them the chance to talk directly with other companies, ultimately bringing in new orders.
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Kunio Mimura
Cluster Nanager
Metropolitan Bio Network Japan
As shown by the recent string of contract signings between ventures and pharmaceutical companies, big pharmaceuticals are very interested in the advanced technological capabilities of bio ventures. That said, the ventures need to be able to clearly communicate their signature technology, applicability, and business plans within a limited time, and forming alliances can be key to ventures’ success. |
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Organization: Secretariat of Metropolitan Bio Network Japan, Japan Bioindustry Association
TEL : +81-3-5541-2731 URL:http://www.shutoken-bio.net/ |
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