===TOHOKU TECHNO ARCH===
[https://www.t-technoarch.co.jp/en/ 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. There are more than 50 licensed technologies categorized as suitable for commercialization, and several of those have already been launched into successful businesses.
===Tohoku University Startup Garage===
The Tohoku University Startup Garage supports activities by faculty, students, and alumni related to Tohoku University who, based on their own intellectual curiosity, aim to solve users' problems in a sustainable way through entrepreneurship, and also support the dissemination of information about Tohoku University-born ventures established in this way.
In this way, we promote the creation of social and economic impact through Tohoku University's knowledge and human resources.
TUSG supports each of the resources necessary for company activities, i.e., members, funding, location, and guidelines, and aims for continuous company activities by teams that include researchers.
==Facilitating university-industry collaboration==
===NICHe===
Tohoku University's [https://www.niche.tohoku.ac.jp/en/ New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe)] promotes joint research with industry and other organizations and conducts advanced and original development research. The organization fosters cross-department cutting-edge research to the creation of new technologies that meet societal demands, and in the meantime exploring possibilities for new uses and new industry fields.
===Tohoku University Startup Garage===
The Tohoku University Startup Garage (TUSG) supports activities by faculty, students, and alumni related to Tohoku University who, based on their own intellectual curiosity, aim to solve users' problems in a sustainable way through entrepreneurship, and also support the dissemination of information about Tohoku University-born ventures established in this way. In this way, we promote the creation of social and economic impact through Tohoku University's knowledge and human resources. TUSG supports each of the resources necessary for company activities, i.e., members, funding, location, and guidelines, and aims for continuous company activities by teams that include researchers.
==Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts==