Collaborative Projects with MRI Operations Division
July 04, 2023Collaborative Projects with MRI Operations Division
ICF-BAP2023 is working with the Mitsubishi Research Institute to solicit ideas, technologies, and business models that will create large societal impacts
If you wish to apply for the [Support for co-creation and societal implementation with MRI] option during BAP, please select [Theme of particular interest for co-creation with MRI] as your answer for the [Motivation for applying to this program] section within the Application Form
Creating Value Chains as a Company that Resolves Societal Issues
MRI is working to create an ideal futute society by tackling societal issues at their inception and linking solutions and innovations to our four core business functions: A) Reseach and Proposals, B) Policy and Business Planning, C) Systems, Business Design, and Demonstration, and D) Societal Implementation
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Work with a wide range of solutions and technologies, such as through advances in robotics, that can increase productivity by evaluating realistic and actual conditions of nursing care sites
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New Business
Business Name: Health Management Policy Packaging
Brief Description: Providing services and solutions that contribute to understanding and visualizing employee health (both physical and mental), encouraging healthy lifestyle changes, maintaining and improving general welfare, and measuring the effectiveness of implemented policy
Previous and Current Projects:Under development
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Provide services and solutions to monitor health (physical and mental) and identify signs of deterioration as early as possible ◇ Provide services and solutions that prompt behavior and lifestyle changes in responses to signs of deterioration ◇ Provide services and solutions that contribute to the maintenance and improvement of physical or mental health ◇ Provide services and solutions that enable quantitative measurement of efforts to maintain and improve physical or mental health
Food and Agriculture
Food and Agriculture VCP Manager
Kimio Inagaki
For the sake of our children, let’s work together to revamp the food and agriculture sectors in Japan and around the world!
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Collaborative Research
Concept Name: Promoting regional agricultural land accumulation
Brief Description: Improving the feasibility of the People and Farmland Plan and using regional planning policies to promote the concentration of farmland and increase agricultural productivity
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Develop systems and applications to enchance collection, visualization, and use of agricultural data (e.g., satellite information,planting information) ◇ Propose services and business models that promote agricultural land accumulation
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Customer Proposal
Project Name: Digitalization of operations of agricultural, forestry, and fishery producers and business associations
Brief Description: Promoting the digitalization of agriculture, forestry, and fishery businesses to increase operational efficiency and improve their provided value
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Develop systems and applications that can be utilized by agriculture, forestry, and fishery businesses ◇ Propose services and business models that improve the productivity and value of agriculture, forestry, and fishery businesses ◇ Create service and business ideas that streamline wholesale market transactions for agriculture, forestry, and fishery businesses
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New Business
Business Name: Reduction of environmental impact of food and agricultural production
Brief Description: Minimizing the environmental impact of agricultural production through efforts such as reducing methane in rice paddies and livestock farms and the resource recycling of agricultural and food wastes
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Develop new technologies to reduce rice paddy and livestock methane ◇ Develop new technologies and business models to improve recycling of agricultural and food wastes
Energy
Energy VCP Manager
Hiroyuki Sasada
Let’s build a society where renewable energies are used everywhere!
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New Business
Business Name: Measures to improve performance of energy-related facilities Brief Description: Providing a mechanism to predict in advance the decline in performance of energy-related facilities in order to optimize the development of renewable energy and electric power facilities
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Provide services and solutions that can predict the decline in performance of renewable energies such as solar power generation ◇ Provide services and solutions that enable the prediction of failures and general deterioration of power facilities ◇ Provide services and solutions that can diagnose the remaining life of energy storage batteries
Urban Mobility
Urban Mobility VCP Manager
Hirotaka Higuchi
Let’s work hard to resolve local issues through social business!
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Customer Proposal
Project Name: Building a sustainable, compact, smart city
Brief Description: Promoting efficient and sustainable urban development through the orderly reduction of urban sprawl, the creation of city industry and employment, and the improvement of general wellbeing
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Provide services and solutions that contribute to civic engagement and community building ◇ Provide services and solutions that contribute to digital infrastructure and data utilization ◇ Provide services and solutions that contribute to fulfilling the last-one-mile of human movement and logistics ◇ Improve regional development services using systems like ICT (education, reskilling, industry, employment, etc.) ◇ Improve mobility services and support community activities using systems like ICT
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Customer Proposal
Project Name: Resolving societal issues with a rapidly aging population
Brief Description: Providing solutions and preparing for the rapid aging of Japan’s population and the aging rural communities
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Provide services and solutions that contribute to digital infrastructure and data utilization (especially in combating the so-called “digital divide” and in clarifying the current and future needs of the elderly) ◇ Assess the physical and cognitive functions of the elderly, provide services and solutions related to nursing care, and contribute to the prevention of dementia and other serious illnesses ◇ Provide services and solutions that contribute to fulfilling the last-one-mile of human movement and logistics ◇ Improve mobility services and support community activities using systems like ICT
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New Business
Business Name: Services to solve regional issues utilizing Region Ring
Brief Description: Creating a local currency service that aims to revitalize communities by incentivizing indiviudal behavioral change by issuing tourism-focused local currencies, granting visitors spendable “points”, and providing welfare service vouchers
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Provide services to promote behavioral change among regional residents, to repopularize local businesses using point systems, and to implement regional digital currencies
Resilience
Resilience VCP Manager
Hozuma Sekine
Let’s create a resilient society where everyone can live in peace!
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Collaborative Research
Concept Name: Realization of a “resilient society” where citizens support one another
Brief Description: Optimizing the allocation of public assistance resources by promoting diisaster prevention activities that are suited to individual regions and cultures, utilizing MRI’s Personal Resilience Profile (PRP)
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Propose services effective for fulfilling the above-mentioned goals, as well as brainstorm ideas for PRP utilization
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Customer Proposal
Project Name: Supporting residents and local governments in preparing for natural disasters, during crisis, and in encouraging recovery
Brief Description: Creating a Disaster Prevention DX for both administrative support and resident support based on regional municipalities and geographic characteristics
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Innovates services and solutions to improve self-supporting and mutual-aid capabilities of regional residents and businesses
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New Business
Exploratory Business Name: Realization of phase-free disaster prevention and mitigation solutions
Brief Description: Creating services through the use of digital technology that provide individuals and communities with the support and services they need during non-critical times, immediately after a disaster occurs, and during the recovery and reconstruction period
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Innovate services and solutions that can be utilized during peaceful times but are also implemented with regard to natural disaster prevention
Human Resources
Human Resources VCP Manager
Hiroyuki Ueda
Let’s work together to create a society where everyone can play an active role!
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Customer Proposal
Project Name: Supporting human resources consulting
Brief Description: MRI is operating the Human Resource Management Consortium and is providing consulting services to private companies in order to improve their human capital management. MRI achieves this by conducting quantitative analysis of each company’s issues rather than generalizing solutions, including analyzing employee engagment and visualizing the Asls-ToBe gap
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Create original services that contribute to the understanding, evaluation, and analysis of coroporate human resource management and the formulation and implementation of solution-focused strategies (e.g., the 3P5F method of “three perspectives and five common elements”)
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New Business
Business Name: Promoting FLAP implementation services
Brief Description: Developing and providing services that support the effective and efficient implementation of the FLAP cycle of recruitment (including hiring new graduates and mid-career workers, encouraging intra-company transfers,and internal corporate training) in order to eliminate the gap between human resource supply and demand
Ideal Start-up Partner Qualities: ◇ Provide services that will increase the value of the services and business offerings linked with MRI
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New Business
Business Name: Providing AI functions in the field of HR
Brief Description: MRI has developed HaRi, an AI engine specialized for the field of human resources. Using this engine, MRI has developed PRaiO, crextra, and COCOPRO to provide these services in multiple areas throughout Japan.
