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Kimura Lab
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The lab studies the management of technology, focusing on creating new businesses in the fields of food and health.
AboutAbout the lab
Implementing well-being through innovation
Kimura Lab studies innovation management, the way companies create new businesses.
It covers fields that touch people's daily lives, such as food and health, and the environment and sustainability.
The lab explores how technologies such as digital health, alternative foods, and AI and big data can be turned into businesses.
It also studies the frontline of open innovation, such as collaboration between large companies and startups, which accelerates discontinuous growth.
Key terms
- Innovation management
- The planning and running, at the company level, of the process of creating and growing new technologies and businesses
- Open innovation
- An approach in which a company creates new businesses and technologies by partnering with other companies and universities, rather than relying only on its own resources
- Digital health
- Technology that uses health data collected through smartphones and sensors for prevention and medical care
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To realize the well-being of every individual in a Society 5.0 world, the lab studies innovation management for commercialization in fields related to daily life, such as food and health, and the environment and sustainability. In particular, it addresses the frontline of open innovation that accelerates discontinuous growth, including value co-creation collaborations between large companies and startups in Japan and abroad, and internal venture programs within companies.
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The members of Kimura Lab are faculty, administrative staff, doctoral students, and students in the Professional Degree Program in Technology and Innovation Management.As of 2026
- ProfessorEiichiro KimuraPublications ↗
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