Kei Yamagata, Manager, Japan Innovation Network, on Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

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Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building
in Japan
Japan Innovation Network
Manager
Kei Yamagata
August 26, 2016 GEC+ in Daegu

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Focus of innovation in JPN
“Startups”
(Source: Shinsotsu saiyo no tebiki, Ponnuf) (Source:UZUZBASE)
“Large Companies”
& Connect

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Our mission & approaches
Our mission is to create innovation ecosystems
through 3 approaches
TOWARD INNOVATION NATION
Innovation
Management
Innovation
Platform
Innovation
Project

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1. Innovation Management
 Innovation is not an issue of individuals:
It is a management issue
 Creating a community of CEOs for innovation
 Innovation 100 Committee co-organizing with METI
Transforming executives’ management style

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Large companies need to sustainably
build new businesses to survive
EfficiencyCreativity
Creativity is the challenge

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Differences in activities
Creativity needs systematic trial & errors
Creating 0 to 1
Efficiency and speed are key

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2. Innovation Project
 Design and co-operate companies’ innovation
ecosystem and acceleration programs
 Provide business model & lean startup education
programs
 Innovation academy to educate in-house accelerators
Output of Innovation Management thinking

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2. Innovation Project
Framework: The Innovation Compass

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3. Connect innovation ecosystems
around the globe

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Our Board Members
President
Noboru Konno
Professor of Tama
Graduate School
Executive
Managing
Director
Hiro Nishiguchi
Kunitake Ando
Honorary Chairman of
Sony Life Insurance
Nonaka Ikujiro
Professor of Hitotsubashi
University
Fujiyo Ishiguro
President of Netyear Group
Corporation
Hitoshi
Funahashi
President of ICMG
Tom Kelley
Partner of IDEO
Yukio Okubo
General Manager of
Recruit Works Institute
Takeshi
Matsumoto
Minoru Noda
Professor, Meiji University
Graduate School
Hideyuki Horii
Professor of Tokyo
University
Takashi Maeno
Professor of Keio
University

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Our Advisory Boards
Gen Isayama
Co-Founder/CEO at WiL
Hideshi
Hamaguchi
Director of Strategy, Ziba
Philip Kotler
S. C. Johnson & Son
Distinguished Professor
of International Marketing
Robert Eberhart
Assistant Professor of
Management at Santa
Clara University
Research fellow at
Stanford University
Leif Edvinsson
Board Director of the
Swedish Brain Research
Foundation and the
Center for Molecular
Medicine at Karolinska
Institute
Lynda Gratton
Professor of
Management Practice
at London Business
School
Robert Wolcott
Co-Founder and Executive
Director of the Kellogg
Innovation Network (KIN)
Martha G. Russell
Executive Director,
mediaX at Stanford University
James A. Ogilvy
Co-founder of Global
Business Network：GBN
Yves Pigneur
Professor at the University of
Lausanne

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