Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced "New Startup Strategy" at CIC TOKYO
Press release in English: https://lnkd.in/gNymU2pY
Tokyo Governor’s Office-Koike Yuriko, Manabu Miyasaka, and Team Tokyo Innovation announced Tokyo’s new #startup strategies "Global Innovation with STARTUPS" at CIC Tokyo today.
The CIC Japan team, including Mr. Masaru Nagura, contributed to creating these new strategies in this short period of time. Thank you CIC Japan for your contribution to Japanese startup ecosystem building!
Trusted had an opportunity to share our opinion on the strategies based on our experience bridging Japan with Europe on open innovation projects.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government will focus on building the most startup-friendly environment in Tokyo, as well as support Japanese startups to go global from the start and solve social problems that many countries are facing including Japan.
(Currently, many Japanese startups focus on only Japanese market due to language and cultural barriers)
The new strategy is about to increase the number of startups, unicorns and public-private collaborations to 10 times in 5 years.
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