KEYWORDS USED FOR WWW INVENTORY:

Facilities for Collaboration, Incubation, Quasi-public Networks, Start-up Ventures.

PROJECT NAME:

Establishment of R&D Infrastructure for collaboration related to incubation efforts of start-up ventures in the info-communications industry.

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CURRENT LOCATION:

Kobe City, Japan.

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

Research Development Department, Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan.

BRIEF OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY:

This project realizes, by network simulation facility, etc., similar conditions to those where the nationwide optical fiber networks have been established and provides these facilities (incubation facilities) to the private enterprises and researchers who conduct advanced R&D in the sphere of telecommunications and broadcasting. This project thereby contributes to the development of next-generation applications and telecommunications technologies.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

To support private enterprises who intend to develop advanced applications and telecommunications technologies corresponding to the networks where the nationwide optical fiber networks have been established, and to contribute thereby to the establishment of the advanced info-communications society.

EXPECTED/ACTUAL RESULTS:

By disseminating the results of R&D conducted in these facilities by private enterprises, telecommunications and broadcasting services will be inaugurated and new businesses related to these services will be developed, and the users will benefit significantly.

PARTNERS/ACTORS IN THE PROJECT:

Researchers of TAO, and manufacturers.

USE OF INFORMATION/TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGIES:

Whole info-communications technologies.

BENEFITS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:

Promotion of the development of advanced applications in the age of optical fiber networks.

EXPECTED COST:

3.07 billion yen (Second supplementary budget in FY 1995).