What is "Research Night," where you can gather seeds for launching new businesses?
When launching a new business, do you ever struggle with not being able to come up with good ideas, or feeling that your company's own idea-gathering methods have reached their limits?
We would like to introduce "Research Night," an online event unique to A-Co-Labo that supports you with such challenges!!
What is Research Night?
It is a closed online event aimed at companieswith the goal of creating new businesses and gathering ideas or seeds. Since researchers from both the humanities and sciences are registered with A-Co-Labo, it is possible to arrange a wide range of seed presentations.
Click here for the event report ↓
The Trigger
We started Research Night as a "place to create opportunities for thinking," not necessarily for things that will take shape immediately, but to provide new hints for companies from a medium- to long-term perspective and to help them keep their antennas up for various things from the viewpoint of new business. "a place to create opportunities for thinking". The goal is to provide business development managers who are struggling with seed exploration and idea generation with a place where they can
interact with researchers easily in a way that is easier to understand than existing services.
Flow of the Research Night event (example)
① Introduction
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----② Researcher Presentation Session----
Presentation📊
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Q&A💡
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Speaker rotation👥
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③ Breakout Rooms
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④ Closing
① There are about 5 researchers presenting each time.
・University faculty
・Independent researchers
・Researchers
・Doctoral students
・Clinical engineers
We have partner researchers present while considering synergies with companies.
② The presentation is 7 minutes, and the Q&A is 5 minutes.We have researchers present their research themes, the purpose of their talk, and synergies with the company's business. During the presentation, the researchers will present to the company representatives by screen-sharing the PowerPoint materials they prepared in advance. In the Q&A session, company representatives can ask questions about points they were curious about regarding the presentation content.
③ We have company representatives move to the breakout room of the researcher they are interested in, which serves as time to delve deeper into things that could not be asked during the Q&A.
Feedback received and insights gained through 6 events
Researchers:
By working with people on the business side on things that cannot be done by researchers alone, they can experience the birth of new projects or connections to new businesses. By receiving opinions from business-side people they have never met before, it becomes an opportunity to gain new perspectives on their research and have their own research viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. Research Night is an opportunity for researchers to learn a lot as well. It is also a place to learn about the research fields of researchers in other disciplines through presentations and to learn how other researchers give presentations.
Company side:Attribute example
(IT company with no research department, but active in new business)
In fields they are not usually involved in, or even in situations where they have no interaction with researchers, hearing from researchers who are active on the front lines and researchers who are like raw gems that they could not find themselves is stimulating. Therefore, because the expansion of thinking that does not come up within the company is born through interaction with researchers, it has become
an opportunity to always have a developmental thought process regarding what kind of business it could become through regular Research Night events.
A-Co-Labo:
By A-Co-Labo taking on the role of connecting researchers and companies that have not been connected before,
new possibilities for both parties can be expanded. Also, Research Night is an entry point for sales, and it is an opportunity to learn more about A-Co-Labo's business and our wide variety of partner researchers. If there is a researcher they want to hear more from after the event,
we set up a separate time to connect the two parties, and when launching a new project, researchers met at Research Night are selected, so I feel that smooth connections are realized through the event. Project managers who have both research and corporate experience handle everything from hearings to event arrangements, and we provide plenty of time for easy-to-understand research seed introductions and answering questions from the business side in a short amount of time.
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If you are a company representative who is interested, please contact us from here.
Researchers can also apply for registration from here.
[Related Article]
A-Co-Labo launches Research Night service
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https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000003.000072327.html