School:Tohoku University

Tohoku University was established as Japan's third national university in 1907.

Located on the ancient site of Aoba Castle in Sendai City, Tohoku University is proud to be ranked among Japan's leading universities.

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship

Hult Prize On Campus Tohoku University

Hult Prize is a global entrepreneurship event focusing on university students to exert waves of positive impact on society. Tohoku University has been enlisted as one OnCampus competition venue since 2019, and has been a hub for more than 50 competitors in more than a dozen teams every year.

Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship

Business Incubation program (BIP)

At Tohoku University, the Center for Business Innovation offers two types of BIP: "Nurturing and Support" for prototyping, feasibility testing, and commercialization support, and "Focused" for full-scale commercialization testing and preparation for joint research with companies. The program is focusing on getting faculties involved in innovation through collaboration with the outside industries.

Actively supporting the university technology transfer function

TOHOKU TECHNO ARCH

TOHOKU TECHNO ARCH is a Technology Licensing Organization (TLO) that aims to support the creation of new businesses and industries by utilizing intellectual property created at universities. The group serves as a coordinator to return the profits of university researches to society, and as a seed provider for partners to strengthen the competitiveness of business creation by introducing university technologies.

Facilitating university-industry collaboration

NICHe

The purpose of the New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe) at Tohoku University is to promote joint research with industry and other organizations and to conduct advanced and original development research with the aim of proposing to society the creation of new technologies and new industrial fields that meet the demands of society.