Dear all,

We will hold the Innovation Workshop for creation and brush-up of your (business) idea toward the practical application.

Facilitator: Keiko Gion (Kobe University)

Place: Biomedical Innovation Center

1st   Jan. 16(Tue)  16:30-19:30   Ideation (Process of solution, Design thinking)

2nd  Jan. 18(Thr)  16:30-19:30   Application 1 (Logical thinking)

3rd  Jan.  23(Tue)  16:30-19:30   Application 2 (System thinking)

4th  Jan. 25(Thu)  16:30-19:30   Try and Challenge (Value Proposition, Rapid prototyping)

5th  Feb. 1(Thu)  16:30-19:30   Business Plan, Presentation

Waseda EDGE-NEXT provides the Program of Lean Startup* Training,

which SUMS students can attend.

Date and Time : Nov. 16 (Sat)   16:00 – 19:00

Venue : Shiga University of Medical Science

Capacity : 30 students

Applicant : Student who has registered for the EDGE-NEXT or iKODE program and is preferably good at Japanese

Lecturer : Seiji Tagami (President, FieldUp)

Mikiko Shimaoka (Associate Prof. Waseda Univ.)

Theme : Communication skill up based on coaching

Helpful scene: Team care, interview, work environment, etc.

Program Contents:

・What is coaching?

・Interactive communication

・Effective question to bring out the thoughts

・Individual correspondence to a communication type

Waseda EDGE-NEXT provides the Program of Lean Startup* Training,

which SUMS students can attend.

Date and Time : Nov. 18 (Sat)   9:00 – 18:00

Dec. 16 (Sat)  10:40-18:00

Venue : Waseda University

Capacity : Six students (in the case of many applicants, we will select.)

Applicant : Student who has registered for the EDGE-NEXT or iKODE program and should be good at Japanese

Expense : Travel and hotel fee will be paid according to the official rules of SUMS.

*A methodology for developing businesses and products, which aims to shorten product development cycles by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning

Dear all,

The SUMS EDGE-NEXT Business Workshops will be held with the following schedule.

The facilitator is Ms. Satoko Isogai, Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.

Welcome all the people who are interested in this workshop.  You can register on site.

(The contents of workshops will be shown later.)

Place: Biomedical Innovation Center

1st   Nov. 14(Tue)  16:30-19:30   Introduction and Leadership

2nd  Nov. 21(Tue)  16:30-19:30   Communication

3rd  Nov.  28(Tue)  17:00-19:30   Writing and Knowledge

4th  Dec. 5(Tue)  16:30-19:30   Presentation

5th  Dec. 12(Tue)  16:30-19:30   Management

A consortium lead by Waseda Univ. has been adopted by the MEXT grant of Exploration and Development of Global Entrepreneurship for NEXT generation (EDGE-NEXT) in 2017.

SUMS provides this advanced program in collaboration with WU.

Please see the attached file for the information in detail.