Shimadzu Corporation and Kyoto University have signed a comprehensive collaborative agreement with the objective of creating new business activities and innovation to contribute to solving social problems, and training global high-level human resources.
In 2022, both parties signed a three-year comprehensive collaborative agreement with the objective of creating new business activities by acquiring innovative technologies to contribute to solving social problems, and training human resources in the social implementation of these new business activities. They have taken initiatives in the areas of healthcare and green innovation, including searches for business-related themes, and collaborative research. On this occasion, they have expanded the previous agreement by signing a new comprehensive collaborative agreement. The objective is to expand research objectives in the four so-called social value creation domains Shimadzu Corporation is targeting (healthcare, green, material, and industry), and at the same time, to strengthen collaborative research integrating the arts and sciences. This agreement is for a five-year period.
In this new collaborative agreement, initiatives will be taken in accordance with the previous goals of creating new business activities by acquiring innovative technologies to contribute to solving social problems, and training human resources in the social implementation of these new business activities. In addition, the parties will begin a preeminent research promotion project to pave the way to the society of the future, and a project to create social value through data utilization*. For the former project, both parties are involved in cooperative research initiatives with Professor Yukiko Uchida, Director of the Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society, and Professor Koji Hashimoto of the Kyoto University Graduate School of Faculty of Science. The objective is to promote research that integrates the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences, with preeminent researchers at Kyoto University, recommended by administrators at the university and Shimadzu, with an eye to the well-being of people and the planet in 2050. For the latter project, Shimadzu will make a broad public appeal for research seeds capable of creating social value by utilizing data from Kyoto University. The aim is to create innovative technology and new business opportunities through collaborative research in four so-called social value creation domains at Shimadzu.
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