The MITOU Programs fully support
challenges of individuals with excellent ideas
and technical skills using IT.

Support you to solve business/social issues with your innovative ideas!

Applications for FY2024

MITOU Advanced Program
are now being Accepted!
Supported byProfessional Mentors

FY2024
Project Manager

Professor,
Research Center
for Advanced
Science andTechnology, The
University of Tokyo

Grants up to15 million yen / projectNo Age Limit

Professor(DistinguishedProfessor),
Department ofSystems
Innovation, Graduate
School of EngineeringScience, Osaka University
Visiting Director (ATR fellow), Hiroshi Ishiguro
Laboratories at the AdvancedTelecommunications Research Institute (ATR)

Chairman andFounder, UL
Systems. Inc.
CEO, ULSGroup, Inc.
CEO, Archway Inc.

Founder & CEO,
Singular
Perturbations
Inc.

Professor,
AcademicCenter for
Computing andMedia Studies,
Kyoto University

President,
HIRANO
Research Lab.

CEO and
Representative
Director, KDDI
DigitalDivergence
Holdings
Corporation
Executive Officer, KDDI Corporation

President & CEO,MKManagement
Inc.

Executive Officer,
Chief Digital
Officer, General
Manager of DX
Department
Sompo Japan
Insurance Inc.

Pre-application Deadline:

April 5, 2024 at 12:00* (noon)*Japan Standard Time

Projects are invited from MITOU-quality IT talents* who have innovative ideas utilizing
IT that have unchartedness, business potential and/or high social significance, anddevelopment feasibility.
* MITOU-quality IT talents : Human resources with excellent ideas and technical skills who can create innovations by making full use of IT.

The MITOU program fully supports your challenge to realize your dreams.
The Mitou Advanced Program supports your dreams such as being an entrepreneur or solving social issues with your innovative
idea and IT skills.
Project managers (PMs) will provide enthusiastic guidance and full support to you in the challenge of realizing your dreams.

No age limit

Development period schedule●

There is no age limit for applications.

●Individuals and groups are both eligible to apply. Applicants
who are affiliated with a company or other organization arerequired to obtain approval from their organization to apply.

◆ Joint Meeting
Joint meetings are held with adopters supported by other PMs. Learning
about and discussing the development of other projects is a great stimulus●

Through the development period, the PM serves as a mentor
and is in charge of direct guidance.

●

Support is also available from Business Advisors who areexperts in the business, legal and intellectual property fields

Connecting with Mitou Community●advice via e-mail and meetings. At each milestone of the development
program. This is a good opportunity to present their own projects

The project will be supported for project costs (up to 15 millionyen ) based on state of progress.

Professional Support●pace. They will be accompanied by PM who will support them withperiod, conferences are held with other projects and graduates of theSupport for project costs●During the development period, adopters will develop at their own

Opportunities to interact with fellow adopters and other active
Mitou alumni are also provided.
Adopters will receive the stimulation that only Mitou community
can provide.

Intellectual property rights belong to the adopters●

Based on the Japanese version of the Bayh-Dole system,
intellectual property rights to the developed deliverables
belong to the adopters.

●

After the development period, business activities can be
conducted based on the intellectual property rights.

◆ Conferences
Conferences are held at each milestone.

Kick-off meeting [ around July ]The first event after the adoption of the program, where adopters,PMs, and alumni gather. Each project presents their ideas andreceive a variety of feedback.

Interim report conference [ around October ]Adopters, PMs, and alumni gather again. The status of the development will be reported.

Final presentation conference [ around February ]This is a great opportunity to present theproject results during the development
period. The video of the event will be shownon the YouTube IPA Channel later.

Applications will be accepted online.
(1) Entry for pre-application

Pre-application Deadline:(2) Check the "Application Guidelines" on the Application
Overview page, prepare a proposal, and submit ittogether with the required documents.

CONTACTApril 5, 2024
at 12:00* (noon)*Japan Standard Time

MITOU Planning Group, Innovation Department, Digital Infrastructure Center
E-mail : mitou-hukyu@ipa.go.jp