Join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of OIST Innovation Core, the home of OIST Innovation and a hub for open innovation and deep-tech startup support.

Come and see how this facility brings together researchers, startups, industry partners, and supporters to spark new ideas, collaborations, and opportunities.

We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you! Please register for the event so that we can prepare enough coffee, drinks, and snacks for everyone. Don’t miss the Happy Hour sponsored by our partner, Suntory. Test Bed Bus will be running between the auditorim and Core 1 from 2:30-6:00 pm.

In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.

The featured VC for this round is Lifetime Ventures .

Join OIST Innovation’s commercialization training program designed to help students, researchers, and administrators explore how research can move from lab to market. Through monthly, hands-on sessions from July to March, participants will learn the fundamentals of commercialization, customer discovery, business strategy, and pitching while developing their own innovation ideas.

DISCOVER THE LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGY Learn to identify commercial opportunities that come from your academic research. Apply the Lean Startup methodology to real OIST technologies, guided by instructors from the NSF I-Corps™ network. Teams (3–4 people) will conduct interviews, validate their ideas, and explore real-world commercialization.