Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training

Date

Friday, October 24, 2025 - 13:00 to Sunday, October 26, 2025 - 13:30

Location

C209 and C210 (Main Campus Center Building)

Description

Lean Startup Entrepreneurship Training

October 24–26, 2025 | C209 and C210 (OIST Center Building)

November 6 and 18 | 8:00-10:00am | online check-in and final presentation

Discover the Lean Startup Methodology

Innovation begins in the lab. But taking the first step outside the lab requires the right mindset, methods, and mentors. This program is your launchpad.

Learn how to identify commercial opportunities that can emerge from academic research by working on a real technology development case. In this program, participants will use, as case studies, technologies developed at OIST and will apply skills learned in the course to identify potential customers of the technology.

Led by experienced instructors from the U.S. National Science Foundation I-Corps™ network—one of the most respected startup training programs in the world—this three-day workshop equips participants with the tools to test, validate, and refine their ideas using real-world feedback.

Who Should Join:

OIST Researchers, students, and administrators exploring innovation
PhD Students will receive 8 PCD units upon completion of the program
OIST Proof of Concept (POC), Technology Pioneer Fellows (TPF), and COI-NEXT projects
Anyone considering applying for Proof of Concept funding programs
Aspiring entrepreneurs
PARKS* PJ学生, Step 1, Step 2-1, and Step 2-2 gap funded projects (* Platform for All Regions of Kyushu and Okinawa Startup Ecosystem)

Teams

Sign up either as a team or as an individual with or without a technology. Here’s a snapshot of the types of technologies and ideas that participants are bringing to the Lean Startup workshop this year. If you sign up as an individual without a team you may be assigned to work on one of these exciting projects:

1. Medical & Health Tech