Startups wanted] Shinagawa City✕ Creww launches "Shinagawa New Business Creation (Business Co-Creation) Program 2023"!

About "Shinagawa New Business Creation (Business Co-Creation) Program 2023

This program is designed to promote the creation of new businesses and innovation in existing businesses by leveraging the manufacturing technologies and diverse and abundant management resources of four companies in Shinagawa Ward (Techno Axel Networks Corporation, Fine Corporation, Yamashita Systems Corporation, and Yamashita Electric Corporation (in alphabetical order)) with the innovative ideas and new technologies of start-ups from across Japan. The purpose of this program is to promote the creation of new businesses and innovation in existing businesses.

The Gotanda-Osaki area of Shinagawa Ward is known as "Gotanda Valley" because of its concentration of IT start-ups. With the aim of creating and supporting industries in the small and medium manufacturing industry, which is a major industry in the ward, this program will contribute to further revitalization of industries in the ward by promoting open innovation between manufacturing companies in the ward and startup companies nationwide, including Gotanda Valley.

In conjunction with the launch of this program, a dedicated website will be opened on the Creww website to begin soliciting collaboration proposals from startups nationwide. The selection of collaboration proposals, matching, and promotion of commercialization will be conducted online (on the Creww platform). Under this program, the cost of the demonstration experiment to verify the collaboration proposal for commercialization will be partially supported by Shinagawa Ward.

After about six months of the program, a presentation of the results is scheduled to be held in March 2024.

Shinagawa New Business Creation (Business Co-Creation) Program 2023" details page:
URL:https://growth.creww.me/a0f30e20-1bc3-11ee-b537-45bb4867c26b.html

1 Fast-growing companies that challenge existing markets by creating unprecedented business models with unique technologies and ideas.
2 A system for co-creating innovative businesses and services by not only relying on the company's own management resources and technologies, but also by collaborating with external parties.

Participating companies (in alphabetical order)

Techno Axel Networks, Inc.
Co-creation catchphrase: Realization of "casual monitoring" that supports the safe, secure, and comfortable life of each individual

What we want to achieve:
(1) We would like to create a new service together using non-contact sensors (that can measure heart rate and respiration rate).
(2) To reduce stress and burden on drivers and nursing staff
(3) We want to create a sensor system that can detect the road surface environment (stairs, cliffs, shoulders, deep pools of water, etc.) several meters ahead of us.

FINE Co.
Co-creation catchphrase: Automation of toothbrush factories and the challenge of creating the future of oral care!

What we want to achieve:
(1) We would like to promote automation and operational efficiency in the toothbrush factory!
(2) We would like to work on creating new oral care products and promoting their widespread use!
(3) To increase the number of business negotiations by automating the request for quotation through data linkage.
(4) Convert inventory management at factories into data and make real-time inventory control.

Yamashita Systems Co.
Co-creation catchphrase: Innovation at the manufacturing site!

What we want to achieve:
1) I want to solve problems in manufacturing and production sites with IoT.
(2) More solutions for the manufacturing industry
(iii) I want to take on the challenge of developing new products through the use and application of in-house technology.

Yamashita Electric Co.
Co-Creation Catch Copy: New Value Creation through Startup Co-Creation

What we want to achieve:
1) To promote digitization and data utilization of internal operations
(2) We want our products, technology, and equipment to be used for commercialization of start-up companies.

*Startups may enter multiple companies. Please refer to the application page for program details and management resources of each company.

Outline of "Shinagawa New Business Creation (Business Co-Creation) Program 2023

1. Application period: Monday, July 24, 2023 - Thursday, August 10, 2023

2. Target companies: All domestic and international startups. Individuals/corporations, any field, any industry.

3. Entry: Please enter from the application page below.
   https://growth.creww.me/a0f30e20-1bc3-11ee-b537-45bb4867c26b.html
   *Entry deadline: August 10, 2023 (Thursday) 23:00

4. Organized by: Shinagawa Ward

5. Planning and operation: Creww Inc.

About Creww Corporation

Creww, Inc. is a total support company for startups, entrepreneurs, business companies, and individuals who want to take on new challenges. Creww Inc. is a total support company for startups, entrepreneurs, business companies, and individuals who want to take on challenges, providing a variety of services that match the needs of each individual.

Since its founding in 2012, Creww has conducted open innovation programs with more than 350 companies and startups, and has achieved approximately 1,000 collaborations to date. Currently, approximately 7,000 startups are registered on the open innovation platform operated by Creww.