現在、世界人口の 8.9% に当たる約6 億 9,000 万人が飢えに苦しんでいます。このままだと、飢餓人口は 2030 年までに 8 億 4,000 万人を超えることが予想されています。その一方で、消費者が利用できる食品全体の17%に当たる約9億3100万トンの食品が2019年に廃棄されています。

As previously reported, the progress of open innovation is slow in Japan. However, the government has been actively developing measures to promote open innovation. For example, it prepared “University Factbook” which provides contact information of business-academia collaboration office, performance of joint / contract research, performance of patent filing and utilization, and technology field of patent applications and other information of each university, and also announced the scheme of “Innovation Management Hub” which sets up a proven TLO to assist technology transfer for local universities. A recent noteworthy measure is the development of “IP asset platform” to match domestic and international needs with Japanese IP assets such as technology seeds, which […]