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Characteristics of Saga’s Industries
source) Prefectural Accounts (SNA statistics)
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
06
09
12
15
18
Composition Ratio of Industries (SAGA)
Agriculture, forestry, fisheries Machine industry
Metal and chemical Other manufacturing
Construction Commerce and accommodation
Financial and real estate Transportation/communication
Health and hygiene Professional services
Others
0
0.5
1
1.5
Agriculture,
fisheries
Machine
industry
Metal and
chemical
Other
manufactur…
Construction
Commerce/
accommod…
Financial and
real estate
Transportati
on/commu…
Professional
services
Health and
hygiene
Others
Specialization Coefficient(2018)
SAGA NAGASAKI FUKUOKA TOKYO
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Labor Productivity
source) Economic Census
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
Agriculture,
forestry,
fisheries
Machine
industry
Metal
and
chemical
Other
manufacturing
Construction
Commerce
and
accommodation
Financial
and
real
estate
Transportation/co
mmunication
Professional
services
Life-related
services
Health
and
hygiene
Others
Labor Productivity of Industries
(compared to the national average of the same industies = 1.00:2016)
SAGA NAGASAKI FUKUOKA TOKYO
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Outflow of Human Resources & Income Transfer
Relatively high outflow ratio
after graduating high school
source)School Basic Survey, Prefectural Accounts(SNA statistics)
Outflow ratio correlates to the current
Account balance of private sector
Formerly, regional deficits werecompensated
bytransferofincome within thepublicsector
20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
AOMORI
KAGOSHIMA
MIYAZAKI
KUMAMOTO
SAGA
NARA
KOCHI
Outflow Ratio for Getting Jobs
70% 75% 80% 85%
NARA
SHIMANE
WAKAYAMA
SAGA
KAGAWA
IBARAKI
TOTTORI
Outflow Ratio for Higher Education
(2001)
y = -0.4772x + 0.1667
R² = 0.3622
(2018)
y = -0.6125x + 0.1949
R² = 0.4597
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
-40% -20% 0% 20% 40%
Outflow
for
Getting
Jobs
Net Export / nominal GDP
Net Export & Outflow of Prefectures
2001
2018
線形 (2001)
線形 (2018)
SAGA
(2001)
y = -0.3003x + 0.1609
R² = 0.3202
(2018)
y = -0.1837x + 0.1724
R² = 0.1174
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
-40% -20% 0% 20% 40%
Transfer
Income
of
Public
Sec
/
Pref
Income
Net Export / nominal GDP
Net Export & Transfer Income
2001
2018
線形 (2001)
線形 (2018)
SAGA
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Why DX & Startups ?
Outflow of Human Resources
||
Becoming an Important Issue for the Sustainability of the Regional Society
Relatively Low Wages Lack of Diversity in Job Opportunities
Not everyone wants to work in factories...
Higher wages are desirable
Productivity
Improvement
Development of
Various Industries
○○○ DX ○○○ IT Industry ○○○ Startups ○○○
Moreover, with methods and approaches different from TOKYO or FUKUOKA
||
Not volume, but quality of relationships between peoples and companies:
face-to-face communication, individual-focused support, long-term follow-up etc.
【Environmental Change in 2000’】
Even if many young people work in cities,
rural areas are not compensated
through public income transfer
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Outreach
to Expand the Use of ICT
9
“Saga-Style” Approach to Industrial DX
Large Scale Training
of DX Human Resources
First in all of Japan
DX Hub
Making DX the best practice across industries
through developing exemplary projects and businesses
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Concept Movies about DX of Saga (Mar. 2019)
summary
agriculture
factory
office work
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SAGA Industrial Smartification Center (Oct. 2018～)
Mission
Improvement of Productivity
Creation of New Business
Trustee
Joint venture consisting of web
production, regional bank and SIer
Opening
Time
Weekday
9:00 – 17:00
Contents
/Function
Individual Consultation
Individual DX Research
Experience Apps and Devices
Seminars and Events
Business Matching
URL https://www.saga-smart.jp
Operation
Results
(2021)
Number of users: 2,551
Number of consultations: 143
Supporting companies: 221
Averaged
200/month
First facility of its kind at time of opening. Many public institutions have come to observe the center.
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As an Example of Seminars and Events
■ Essence of Data-Science by
Microsoft Engineer（Feb. 26,
2022）
■ AI Workshop
（Jan. 28, Feb. 10, Feb. 25,
2022）
■ Public Relation Strategy by
SNS（Jan. 26, 2022）
■ Turning Challenges into
Opportunities through DX（Jan.
19, 2022）
■ Overcome Difficulties of HR
using DX（Nov. 2, 2021）
■ How to Increase Sales using
DX（Oct. 13, 2021）
■ Future society using DX and
Data-Science（Dec. 12, 2021）
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SAGA Smart Samurai, Ninja & Community (2020～)
Inviting professional IT engineers to hold
events or seminars
Promoting and subsidizing such events
Smart
Community
2021～
Training of SaaS and No-Code to
ensure in-house DX leader
Practical courses based on real
issues of participants’ companies
4 months of training AI & ML
engineers by Python programming
Over 700-800 applications (capacity
100-200 people)
Smart
Ninja
Smart
Samurai
2020～ 2022～
Gaining and applying
practical skills
Sharing gained knowledge
and experience
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DX Communicator & DX Accelerator (2022～)
I don’t understand
ICT or DX at all…
I wish to incorporate
DX more
Let’s go to
SISC !
We will
support you to take
it to the next level
SAGA Industrial
Smartification Center
DX
Communicator
DX
Accelerator
Try using DX
Consulting
and advice
Matching for
introduction of
technology
Visiting, easy consulting
and introducing SISC
1,000 visits as KPI
Hands-on support for
introducing technology
Accompanying3-5companies
byanaccelerator
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As an Example of Cases & Companies
Unmanned inspection
by computer vision and
robot arm
Rationalizing agriculture
fields management
by remote sensing
Seibu JA Saga
Kimura Information
Technology
OPTiM
Saga
Core & Cutter
Goal
Fukuhaku
Publishing
Saga Densan
Center
Cutting off back-office
tasks by digitization
and SaaS
Optimizing staffing and
inspection by machine
learning models
Over 40 various cases have been created
through business matching or verification projects
Chat-bot, text -processing
and doc-analysis, mainly
pharmaceuticals field
IoT and computer vision,
mainly agriculture and
construction field
Statistical analysis and
modeling, mainly retail
sales and finance field
Various ICT system
development, mainly
public solution field
Labor productivity of ICT industry
had been raised up about 30% during 2012-2016
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“SAGA-Style” Promotion of Startups
Various Individual
Instruction Programs
Support of Fundraising
from Private Sector
Close and Direct
Communication
Make SAGA "Startups' Mecca“, by continuously producing seeds flying to the world
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Startup Gateway, Boost & Connect (2019～)
Brush Up Plans by Real Investors
磨
Startup
Boost By the venture capital established by
EBINE Tomohito (Opt HD Founder)
Brush-up
2020～：13seeds
From Ideas to Business Plans
始
Startup
Gateway By the startup supporting team of the
auditing firm Deloitte Tohmatsu
Start-up
2019～：16seeds
Matching with Partners and Customers
繋
Startup
Connect By the seed accelerator established by
FUJIWARA Hiroshi (BBT founder)
Matching
2021～：6seeds
3 individual instruction programs (each 4-6 months) according to each phases
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As an Example of Events
Gateway Kick off（Jul.7,2021）
Business Creation WS（Oct.28,2021）
Community Event（Jul.20,2021）
Ideathon for Students（Oct.13,2021）
Exchange of Programs Meeting（Oct.27,2021）
Startup Boost Camp（Nov.18-19,2021）
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Fundraising Support Schemes
Expanding Phase
Founding Phase
Idea Phase
Received Category Grand Prize
at the Governor's Association’s
policy-making award 2020
Subsidy Utilizing
Donation Tax System
Drastic Subsidy
as Seed Money
Support to Crowdfunding
and VC Investment
from "Public Finance Supports", to "Financing form the Private Sector"
As the prefectural business plan
contest award benefit...
In addition, adding
general financial resources
Recruitment of donation
as Furusato-Tax
"Dragon's Day" for graduators
of individual instruction programs
2018～ 6seeds
Total 8 million yen
2021～ 3seeds
Total 15 million yen
2016～ 71cases
Total 116 million yen
For more expanding business,
supports of financing
About 15 seeds
fulfilling the requirement
Max 3 seeds are adopted
and provided seed money
In advance, concluding
agreements with fundraisers
If success fundraising,
paying rewards(10-20%)
Emphasizing on financing from the private sector
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Close & Direct Communication
Create channels with entrepreneurs or supporters in advance
Staffs &
Startup Concierges
Gateway
Trustee
Boost
Trustee
Connect
Trustee
Adopted Entrepreneurs, Participants of Events and so on
In general, getting in touch each time,
but we make channels with stakeholders in advance,
and interact in daily basis.
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Yamashiro Kiko
22
As an Example of Entrepreneurs
Business specializing in thin
solar panels. Forbes Small
Giant award in 2020
Kawaguchi Steel
Industry
Retocos DESSUN
GENIUS fulelu WIDE NEXS
Original equipment "fwat" that
can relieve back pain. Campus
Venture Grand Prix 2020.
Natural organic materials for
cosmetic and perfumes. J300
award 2021 Grand Prix.
Platform for SDGs by NPO and
small business. Kyushu Venture
Market Semi-Grand Prix 2021.
Original platform "SukuSpo" for
supporting extracurricular sports
clubs that are in need of a coach.
Realizing a safe and secure
environment for children with a
smart lock ecosystem.
Art specialized employment
continuation office for people with
disabilities
Recently, some entrepreneurs are attracting attention outside Saga.
The participants of events have been increasing including students and women.
Making learning fun with
original edutainment
games for children.
Mainichi Mirai DEMO
DAY Special Prize.
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Information : Startups DEMO DAY on Mar. 23, 2022
Startup Ecosystem SAGA 2022 DEMO DAY
Date: 13:00-16:00 Mar. 23, 2022
Venue: Online & Offline (Hotel Grande Hagakure)
Contents:
• Pitches by Program Participants
• Startup Gateway 5 entrepreneurs
• Startup Boost 3 entrepreneurs
• Startup Connect 5 entrepreneurs
• Panel Discussion
about “SAGA-Style” Startups Promotion
Scan to apply
24. Digital Transformation
Startup Ecosystem
Prefectural Official Site
https://www.pref.saga.lg.jp/list00618.html
SAGA innovation & creative Lab.
https://www.facebook.com/SagaIClab/
Startup Boost SAGA
https://www.sbsaga.jp
SAGA Industrial Smartification Center
https://www.saga-smart.jp/
SAGA Smart Samurai
https://www.saga-pg.com/
Startup Gateway SAGA
https://www.sgsaga.jp/
