About TUS’s startup creation & growth support

At the TUS Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration, we assist entrepreneurs with their endeavors as best we can, in cooperation with TUSIDE and a broad range of supporters within and outside the university.
The following is a message from the Vice President of the TUS Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration and the head of the startup creation & growth support and community-based initiative department , along with profiles of the members of the startup creation & growth support team.

Let’s work together towards the future.

Vice President, Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration, Tokyo University of Science

Takeshi Kawai

While the creation of university-developed startups is one of its key initiatives, TUS has delegated the task of supporting such startups to the startup creation & growth support and community-based initiative department of the TUS Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration. As you may know, startups are now attracting much media interest, and with society placing high expectations on startups, more and more TUS faculty and students are aspiring to start their own businesses. Meanwhile, it is also true that many others who have produced innovative research results, intellectual property, and ideas are standing on the sidelines quietly looking on, thinking that the life of an entrepreneur is not for them. As a first step toward founding your own startup, how about just envisioning to see how the research you’ve already done can be utilized in creating novel value? By reviewing your research results from diverse angles, you may be able to extract from them some seeds of innovation. This will also help deepen your research. Once you have identified such seeds, please contact us for a consultation, as our startup creation & growth support and community-based initiative department can assist you with incubating those seeds. Let’s cultivate them together, with excitement and wonder about what sort of fruit they will eventually bear.

Support model of the TUS Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration

TUS supports startups across their entire life cycle, through TUSIDE, the university’s own ecosystem designed to assist startups, from creation to growth.
Under this scheme, the TUS Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration provides hands-on support to cultivate entrepreneurship and guide startups from the seed phase to the early stage, encompassing research, business feasibility study, and commercialization.
In addition, such support is extended through the growth stage for Certified TUS-developed startups.
To run a business, its management must have a 360-degree view, as each business faces its own unique set of issues and challenges.
That’s why we are here to provide optimal support for your entrepreneurial endeavors, while sharing the issues of the faculty, students, and other stakeholders involved, and coordinating the resources of the university, TUSIDE (TUSIM and TUSIC), and external entities such as the national government, municipalities, and local communities.

Illustration of support provided to a faculty member whose entrepreneurial endeavor is in the seed to early stage

We are members of the TUS Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration. We look forward to supporting you!