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Mr. Yoshio Ihiryu, Representative Director & CEO, Ichiryu Associates, Inc.
"What are the success factors for venture business ?"
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Mr.Ichiryu is challenging to catch the chances in the changing times, after giving up the position of government official.
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Varieties of experiences in venture support activities started to cope with the trend of times lead him to the finding “the most important success factors are speed, passion, and challenge”
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Mr. Seiichi Takarabe, Economic Journalist
"Conditions of the companies to survive"
- By comparing the automotive industry which has been engaged in manufacturing and sales within the market and the electronics industry which has repeatedly been slash-and-burn farming, he concluded that the only condition to ensure a company’s survival is to keep watching the nature of the current of the world
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Dr. Naoko Arai, Director R&D, Ginkgo Biomedical Research Institute
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From science to bioventure – based on the experiences in Silicon Valley"
- Looking back the history of major scientific discoveries related to biotechnology, she analyzed how they have been commercialized covering her own research findings.
- The lessons learned from her experiences in a bio venture in Silicon Valley including the role of female leader was explained.
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Dr. Tadahiro Ohmi, Professor of New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University
"Future prospects of semiconductor technology – the roles expected for R&D-oriented ventures"
- Very high level of miniaturization and very large capacity are required to cope with the large scale system to support ubiquitous environment. We must realize high reliability by removing fluctuations, variations, and noises which were negligible before but now considerably degrade S/N ratio in the region of technology frontier.
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Only the genuine industry technology based on academic research is the solution. e.g. He is proposing a completely new concept of semiconductor manufacturing process centering on high-density plasma radical reaction process as well as mask design and evaluation methodology.
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Moreover venture companies in charge of the part of core technology should fully understand the consistency with the total system.
