January 20, 2021 Seventh New Business Strategy Seminar for the Beyond 5G Era

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will sponsor the seventh new business strategy seminar for the Beyond 5G (B5G) era. This seminar is an initiative of the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center (co-headed by MORIKAWA Hiroyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and YANAGAWA Noriyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo).

1. Purpose

On December 18, 2020, MIC launched the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center (co-headed by MORIKAWA Hiroyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and YANAGAWA Noriyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo). The purpose of the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center is to strategically acquire intellectual property and standardize with the participation of major industry-academia-government players toward the B5G era.
The Center encourages private companies, universities, and other organizations to proactively and strategically promote the formation of markets and new market entry, the development and social implementation of innovative technologies and services by making full use of intellectual property and standardization. Therefore, MIC will support these efforts, provide reference information and a place for collaboration, and promote dissemination, and enlightenment.
As part of the efforts of the Center, the seventh new business strategy seminar for the B5G era under the theme of Ideal State of Industry-Academia Collaboration in the Beyond 5G Era
will be held for corporate managers, IP department managers, international standardization and R&D department managers, researchers, etc.

2. Outline

• Time and date: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on Thursday, February 3, 2022
• Venue: Held online (Participants will be informed of the URL upon registration.)
• Participation fee: Free
• Organizer: Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center
• Co-organizer: Planning and Strategy Committee, Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium
• Seminar outline

In addition to advancing the existing 5G mobile network, B5G will become a social infrastructure, and its use will become increasingly diversified. In light of this, it is even more important for industry, academia, and government to collaborate and strategically promote technology development and intellectual property standardization activities.
Therefore, the theme of this seminar is how industry-university collaboration should be in the B5G era. As a keynote speech, Professor NAKAO Akihiro, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, will introduce the efforts of the Next Generation Cyber Infrastructure. In the panel discussion, the panelists will discuss the importance of industry-academia collaboration, expectations for B5G, and the future direction of intellectual property and standardization based on the introduction of case studies of B5G and local 5G projects through industry-academia collaboration.

3. About application

If you wish to participate in this seminar, see the attached Application for Participation and apply by the deadline from the URL (attached).

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  Application deadline: No later than 5:00 pm on Monday, January 31, 2022
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  The published material is in Japanese only.