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Global Tech EDGE NEXT Program

October 6thStart！

For students who are interested infounding startups!
Mr. Ryo MORIKAWA, President and CEO of C Channel
Inc., and entrepreneurs from University of Tsukuba
are mainly going to be mentors of your business plan
brushing up. You can receive the latest
commercialization method including CustomerProblem-Fit / Solution-Problem-Fit process to validate
your business plan. On the Last day, a business plan
pitch event will be held, inviting investors andentrepreneurs. We will support the realization ofstudent startups. International students are alsowelcome.

Opening semester：Autumn AB
Academic credit：1 credit
Day ：Wednesday■Standard Course of Study：

There are occasional changes. For details,
please refer to the back side.

・ Undergraduate 8321202
・ Graduate 0A00408■Teaching STAFF ：Toshihiko OUCHI, Professor
Hiroya IGARASHI, Specially appointed
professor
Akira MORIKAWA, Visiting Professor

Place：Online Lectures
Please confirm the communication fromthe professor.

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・Undergraduate students 1st~4th year
・Graduate students 1st~5th year

■Course Number：Class Schedule
NumberSchedule

1Wednesday,October6
4th Period
Web Delivery,
RecordingWednesday,October13
4,5th Period

23Web Delivery,
RecordingWednesday,October27
4,5th Period

45678

Web Delivery,
Recording

Schedule

Teacher

Guidance
Presentation of the business model

Toshihiko OUCHI
Akira MORIKAWA

Team Building, Idea brushing up
Mentor Matching

Toshihiko OUCHI
Akira MORIKAWA

Customer Issues Clarification
Workshops
Peer Mentoring

Wednesday, December8
Clarify The Value Provided
4,5,6th Period
Web Delivery,
RecordingWednesday,
December15
4,5th Period

910Web Delivery,
Recording

Lecture Flow

Toshihiko OUCHI
Akira MORIKAWA

Business Plan Pre-Reporting Meeting
Peer Mentoring

Toshihiko OUCHI
Akira MORIKAWA

Toshihiko OUCHI
Hiroya IGARASHI
Akira MORIKAWA

Business plan pitch event

Mentoring is Available from Mentors during Lectures and through Online Tools.

review meeting
Submit your business idea in advance.
A review meeting will be held toconfirm that the business model is ata certain level. You may be asked toparticipate as a partner of a team.

October

LectureLectureLectureMentoring

6October
13Mentoring

October
27

LectureMentoring

December
8Mentoring

Finalpresentation

December
15

Faculty Profiles
Toshihiko OUCHI
University of Tsukuba Professor, PhD (Engineering), Patent Attorney,
Professional Engineer (Electrical and Electronic)
He has Experience as a R&D Leader and IP Strategy Manager for New
Businesses at Canon Inc. and as a team leader of
an interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Program at RIKEN. In April
2018, he joined the University of Tsukuba as an Entrepreneurial Faculty
member.Currently, He is also in Charge of other Entrepreneurship
Education such as Next Generation Entrepreneurship Training Courseand Management Intellectual Property Essential Knowledge Course.

Akira MORIKAWA
He graduated from Tsukuba University in 1989 and joined Nippon
Television Network Corporation. In 1999, He completed a Master's
degree in International Political Economy at Aoyama Gakuin University,
Where He Earned an MBA. In 2003, He Joined Hangame Japan (nowLINE Corporation), Where He became President in 2007. In April of thesame year, he was Appointed President of C Channel Inc. He has been
involved in this course since the launch of Tsukuba Creative Camp.

Global Tech EDGE NEXTThe Global Tech EDGE NEXT Program is a program for students and young researchers who want to challenge entrepreneurshipand new business creation based on their ideas and research results to learn how to build business models practically.
For more information, please see the website.

https://www.sanrenhonbu.tsukuba.ac.jp/edgenext/

Contact ▶

Headquarters for International Industry-University Collaboration,
University of Tsukuba E-mail：kigyouka2020@gmail.com