2018 Award Outline

Date	Wednesday, October 31st to Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Venue	Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab [KOIL] and Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center [KCC] (Kashiwa city, Chiba)
Host	Asian Entrepreneurship Award Steering Committee
Co-hosts	Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. Division of University Corporate Relations – The University of Tokyo TX Entrepreneur Partners General Incorporated Association (TEP) The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs (JASVE)

Award Procedures

(1) The entrant companies present their business plans in the semi-final (November 2nd) and final sessions.
(2) In the semi-finals, each of the entrants delivers a 10-minute presentation on their businesses. The top six goes to the final.
(3) At the final session, finalists make a 10-minute presentation. After a fair judgement, prize winners of each prize will be elected.

Judging criteria

(1) Possibility of collaboration with Japanese large corporations
(2) Innovativeness, commercial viability and social impact of the business, with consideration given to the potential of the business to expand and bring about changes in the global economy and society.
(3) Business performance, which includes the nominee’s competitive advantages, management team, strategic vision, and communication capabilities, including presentation skills.

Awards

-First Prize: 1 million JPY
-Second Prize: 500,000 JPY
-Third Prize: 300,000 JPY

-Kashiwa-no-ha Award: 150,000 JPY
…Suitability and implementability to the concept of Kashiwa-no-ha smart city development will be judged towards adoption from the technology, product or service of all startup entrants.

-The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs(JASVE) Award: 50,000 JPY
…The award will be given by JASVE to the most challenging team in solving problems and which is full of entrepreneurship.

-IP Bridge Award: Strategy planning support for Intelectural property

-31 VENTURES Award：All the award winners above will also win 2 years free use of co-working space at 31 VENTURES Office operated by Mitsui Fudosan (3 persons per company).

-Audience Award: Voted by audiences in final session, no extra prize.

Qualification for Entry

Startup companies must meet all of the following requirements.
(1) Must have specific interest in Japanese market or desire in expanding business in relation with Japanese large corporations.
(2) Must be a technology startup focused in either fields of AI/ IoT or Medical/Healthcare.
(3) Must be an early stage startup which has completed PoC (Proof of Concept), and is able to communicate with a specific customer by using prototypes, samples or mockups.
– There are no conditions on the number of years of establishment or the amount of capital.
– A venture-backed company or a company with VCs involved is acceptable.
– Public companies or affiliates of large corporations are not accepted.
(4)Must be nominated by a person responsible for startup incubation/acceleration at a university, research institute, incubator or accelerator.
(5)Startup company and the nominating person must be able to participate in all the programs held between October 31st – November 2nd, 2018.

9:00-9:15	Orientation
9:15-10:40	Startup scenes in each countries Several nominating committee members will give presentations about trends and environment surrounding the startups and those communities in each countries. ■Moderator： SHIGEO KAGAMI (Chairman of Asian Entrepreneurship Award Steering Committee) ■Paneler： DON JYH-FU JENG (Director, Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management National Chengchi University) / Taiwan DAN ZHU (Senior Manager, Beijing Innoway Technology Services Co., Ltd.) / China GYEWAN MOON (Professor, School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University) / Korea RUBESCH EDWARD JAMES (Program Director, Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship Center) / Thailand
10:40-10:45	Introduction of COGNITEE
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-11:20	Kashiwa-no-ha presentation
11:20-12:20	Kashiwa-no-ha smart city tour
12:20-13:30	Lunch Break
Mentoring Session Startup entrants will be divided into 4 groups and will have 10-minute presentation followed by 15-minute mentoring session.
16:10-16:30	Break
16:30-17:30	Alumni speech AEA2017 Second Prize, Audience Prize ViSenze（Singapore）　CEO 　Oliver Tan
17:30-18:00	Photo session
18:00-20:00 1F	Networking Dinner

9:30-11:30	Semi-final Session 10-minute presentation will be followed by 10-minute Q&A session in 4 groups of companies. Judgement for Semi-final Session
13:00-14:00	Talk session : AEA alumni at present ■Moderator： KATSUYA HASEGAWA (Project Professor, The University of Tokyo) ■Paneler： POH KAM WONG (Professor, National University of Singapore) / Singapore
14:10-14:50	Greetings Announcement of the teams for Final session
14:55-17:20	Final Session (6 teams)
17:30-18:30	Special speech：「To the society with no heart failure」 Kakuta Kenji,（CEO, iHeart Japan Corporation） Mr. Kenji Kakuta is currently managing iHeart Japan Corporation from its inception in 2013, developing a regenerative medicinal product for severe heart failure. In 2016, he was awarded by the Government of Japan as a meritorious contributor to collaboration between industry, academia and government. Prior to the current position, he was working for venture capital funds for 8 years, and responsible mainly for investment in biotechnology companies and so broadly as Japan, North America, Western Europe, China and Singapore. He invested in 24 companies in total, including Japan Tissue Engineering, CellSeed and Promethera as cell therapy companies. He was a board member of Promethera, a Belgian company. Prior to that, he started his professional career at Procter & Gamble Far East. He holds a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Science from Kyoto University.
18:40-20:35 *Open only to Host, Co-hosts, Sponsors and Partners	Farewell Reception Speeches and Announcement of Award winners

2018 Award Outline

Award Procedures

Judging criteria

Awards

Qualification for Entry

2018 Program

■Program Day 1

【Open only to Host, Co-hosts, Sponsors and Partners】

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018

Venue：Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab [KOIL]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

■Program Day 2

【Open only to Host, Co-hosts, Sponsors and Partners】

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

Venue1：Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab [KOIL]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

Venue2：Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center [KCC]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

■Program Day3

【09:30-18:20 Open to public】

【18:30-20:30 Open only to Host, Co-hosts, Sponsors and Partners】

Friday, November 2nd, 2018

Venue：Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center [KCC]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

Host

Asian Entrepreneurship Award steering committee

Co-Hosts

Division of University Corporate Relations – The University of Tokyo

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.

TX Entrepreneur Partners General Incorporated Association (TEP)

The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs General Incorporated Association (JASVE)

Special Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Global Brain Corporation

HItachi, Ltd.

Gold Sponsors

The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co.,Ltd.（UTEC）

ERNST & YOUNG SHINNIHON LLC

Silver Sponsors

Nippon Venture Capital Co.,Ltd.（NVCC）

IP Bridge, Inc.

UTokyo Innovation Platform Co., Ltd.

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited

DENTSU INC.

Media Partners

Project Design

Newswitch (The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun)

CNET Japan

Partners

Innospace

Innoway

Tsinghua University

Kyungpook National University

Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

CHIBA Prefecture

KEIDANREN（Japan Business Federation）

Japan Venture Capital Association（JVCA）

Chiba Convention Bureau and International Center

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Japan Institute of Design Promotion（JDP）

NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES（GRIPS）

Licensing Executives Society JAPAN

NEW ZEALAND TRADE & ENTERPRISE

Venture Enterprise Center（VEC）

Embassy of India

TRADE REPRESENTATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN JAPAN

PSG College of Technology, Science & Technology Entrepreneurial Park

Skolkovo Foundation

NUS Enterprise

Putra Business School

Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, National Chengchi University

Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship Center, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce

Foreign Trade University

University of Sydney

Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)

Kashiwa city

2018 Startup Entrants

AusAir

Beijing Spark Eyewear Co., Ltd.

Cellrobot

Ningbo Gexin New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.

【09:30-18:20　Open to public】

【18:30-20:30　Open only to Host, Co-hosts, Sponsors and Partners】

ASIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD 2018　Winners

Award　1 million JPY

Award　500,000 JPY

Award　300,000 JPY

Award　150,000JPY

Award　50,000JPY

Award 　Strategy planning support for Intelectural property