The Expo is a good opportunity to develop advanced technology and empirical power in Kansai
On March 3, JETRO held an online stimpogium, "Future society after Corona, expectations for EXPO2025, possibility of Kansai -Co -creation with the world, and achieving SDGS".Following the keynote speech (see the article on March 30, 2021), a panel discussion was held on the possibility of the Kansai region as an innovation base.
Will Osaka and Kansai be turned into an advanced technology demonstration city with the Expo?
In the panel discussion based on the announcement by the SUNWAY group (UNOPS) and the SUNWAY group, the company's startup by the company is the city management manager of Hankyu Hanshin Real Estate, Mora Hanshin Real Estate, and Management Division. We introduced the business office "GVH#5" and the "StartupBootCamp" project that connects Keihanshin regions and overseas companies in cooperation with Rainmaking companies in the UK. He also stated that he would like to make the redevelopment project "Umekita 2" in the center of Osaka city participating as a venue for advanced technology (POC), along with the Expo venue. Professor Yasuo Kitaoka, Professor of Osaka University Innovation Strategy Division, actively works on social implementation of research results, such as the development of a new colon virus infection treatment "Actemura" and the detection device for liquid explosives used at the airport. Introducing what you did. He stated that in the newly launched future social co -creation consortium framework, we would like to incorporate more global issues such as SDGs (sustainable development goals) and cooperate with external organizations such as UNOPS. The Director of the Expo Association, Keiko Sakai, Director, introduced the TEAM EXPO 2025 program by the Expo Association. The activities of individuals and companies for the goal of the future society were registered as a "co -creation challenge", and the supporters showed their concepts to help them realize. The most prominent initiative is to spread it to the world by communicating to the world through the world -renowned event, Osaka and Kansai Kansai Expo. In the future, if challenges from overseas are registered, it will be a help for Japanese companies to understand global issues.
The accumulation of universities and research institutions and efforts in the nature and environmental fields are the strengths of Kansai
In the desculation, there were also discussions that the Kansai regions are attracting overseas companies such as Silicon Valley in the United States, which are close to IT companies called GAFA, and are derived from the defense industry, but are attracting overseas companies such as Israel. Multiple panelists have integrated research institutions of leading universities and major companies as their strengths in the Kansai region, but Professor Kitaoka of Osaka University says "fields that can become a new leader or have already accumulated experience." It is particularly noted. UNOPS's Suvenson is a front -runner that supports climate change, and has responded to crisis to natural disasters, including typhoons and earthquakes, and the solutions related to renewable energy, including the island countries. He showed a view that it could be relocated. He said that one of the reasons for entering Kobe was that Kansai's knowledge in such a field had a positive and expert. In addition, the 17 goals listed in SDGs include the conservation of the richness of the sea and land, but the representative director of the biomedes, Shoshogoro Fujiki, who is working on the development and operation of the biometric diversity data, is 23 in Japan. He introduced that everyone users collected living data in game format and found more than 1 million individuals. The fact that consumers are interested in biodiversity conservation have also begun to participate in their efforts. He said that if a business model using a mobile phone, which is said to have 4 billion in the world, could be built, it would greatly contribute to biodiversity conservation. According to Director Sakaii, Director of the Expo Association, "Solutions in the rich nature of Kansai become the world's solution. The Japanese perceive symbiosis with nature, but the innovation created from the symbiosis with nature is hidden. He mentioned that it was an asset.
Finally, the Kinki Economy, Trade and Industry Bureau Director Takeshi Yonemura has the aspect of the Osaka and Kensai Expo of the “Expo Expo”, and “Expo SDGS”, and the system of innovation support has been rapidly developed in the Kansai region.I introduced what I was and concluded the symposium.
The state of this symposium has been released on the JETRO website until April 30, 2021.