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Office for Sustainable Development of Okinawa

• Two missions of the OIST Graduate University Act• World-Class Research and Education• Sustainable Development of Okinawa

• Develop IP from OIST research• Establish spin-off companies and corporate

partnerships • Develop an Incubation Center• Work with local and international experts to create an

R&D Cluster in Okinawa

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FY 2015 Business Plan

• Build on existing Business Development and Technology Licensing efforts

• Continue to strengthen collaboration within Okinawa and Japan

• Broaden the program to include more international activities

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Strategic Plan for May BOG meeting

• Mission statement• Technology transfer• Developmental research/proof of concept• Business development• Sponsored research with companies• Incubation center• Entrepreneurial training• Policies and guidelines

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Move to Lab 3 in May 2014

• Sustainable Development offices• Technology Transfer Center• Developmental research• Company partner offices

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Recent Appointments

• Lauren Ha (Associate Vice President)• Antony Galea (Physics and Materials Science, TLS)• Shahriar Ahmed (Technology Transfer, TLS)

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Technology Licensing & Business Development Sections(Takanari Ichikawa, Senior Manager)

Technology Licensing Section(Shingo Ohyama, Asst Mgr)• IP acquisition, management and

licensing• Promotion of technology transfer• IP Training

Business Development Section(Anna Nagamine, Asst Mgr)

• Promotion of joint R&D projectswith industries

• Startup preparation/incubation• Entrepreneurship training

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Technology Licensing Process

Discovery Disclosure Evaluation Filing Marketing Licensing

POCPrototype

Prosecution

What is a Proof of Concept (POC) Program?A process designed to enhance the commercial value of intellectual property/technology through focused milestone based applied research experiments

Institution Grant Sizes Initial Funding Control/Source

Program Cycle

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(The Deshpande Center)

Phase 1 Grants Up to 50K USDPhase 2 Grants Up to 250K USD

Internal/Philanthropic donation ($17.5M USD)

2 proposal rounds per year

University of California, San Diego (The von Liebig Center)

Seed Funding Up to 75K USD

Internal/Philanthropic donation ($10M USD)

1-2 proposal rounds per year

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Invention & Patent Status

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20140

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15

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Invention Disclosure

Filed

Issued

• Filed patents (Orange bar) includes patents transferred from Karolinska institute.• Invention Disclosures were counted from 2010

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Companies in Contact with OISTField Number

Agriculture 3

Biotechnology 8

Business Association 4

Chemical 2

Construction 1

Drug 43

Energy 6

Environment 15

Finance 12

Information Technology 5

Manufacturing 17

Research Institution 12

Service 1

Transportation 1

Total Number of Companies 130

Headquarters Location Number

Okinawa 44

Japan 79

Overseas 7

Total 130

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Joint Projects with Okinawan Industries,Universities & Research Institutes

Kitano SatohYanagidaTanakaGoryaninSaze

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Establishing a Startup

Ulf Skoglund

• FY2012-FY2014 • MEXT Grant Molecular Electron

Tomography to visualize macromolecules in 3D

• Creating Startups from Advanced Research and Technology (START)

• June 2014 • Okinawa Protein Tomography, LTD

launched

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Okinawa R&D Cluster Promotion Organization

• R&D Cluster Task Force transition to • Promotion Organization and • Stakeholders Platform

“The R&D Cluster Promotion Organization will build up a cluster of knowledge-intensive industries by independently delivering programs, events, and services to promote and facilitate the functioning of a regional innovation system in Okinawa.”