Introducing the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard Tokyo Hub (TECH-Tokyo)
The Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard Tokyo Hub (TECH-Tokyo) is an initiative of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (TECH-SEAS) founded and led by its Senior International Innovation Fellow, Jorge Cortell, in collaboration with Harvard University Office of Technology Development, the Harvard University Innovation Laboratories, and several Harvard University Executive Education units.
Bringing Harvard University faculty, researchers, and entrepreneurs, and Japanese corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, and universities, closer together to explore academic, partnering, and commercial opportunities through a multi-year program of presentations, lectures, workshops, networking, guest speakers, competitions and more.
Work in our Tokyo workspace, attend lectures and presentations with simultaneous translation in Japanese-English at our Tokyo event space, and collaborate in real time with Harvard students, entrepreneurs and researchers using a full-size real-time video portal.
Over The Last Two Decades, Harvard Has Created
200+ Unicorns Worth $655B+
Harvard Consistently Produces ~9 New Unicorns Per Year with an Average of $43B in Future Unicorn Value Per Year,
which makes it the world leader in Unicorn Count and Value Created Among Private Unicorns
In the last 5 years, 29 Harvard-Founded Startups
Have IPO’d Worth $282B
~25% of YCombinator's value has been created by Harvard founders
6 VC Firms Have Captured $50B+ in Value From Harvard-Founded Unicorns
Source: Devon Triplett, Phoenix Fund Research.
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Presentations by the Harvard OTD on licensing opportunities tailored to your company’s interest, by different Harvard Schools on the latest research in their labs, and by Harvard Innovation Laboratories on their most promising startups (over 3000 entrepreneurs working on over 700 startups per year!).
Did you know that Harvard annually reports over 400 innovations, receiving over 180 patents, with over 50 corporate research partnerships, leading to over $100M in commercialization revenue and over $3B in valuation? -
A group of Harvard University faculty members will deliver lectures and facilitate workshops at TECH in Tokyo, with real-time translation in Japanese, several times a year. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear the latest findings from some of the world’s leading experts on business technology, science, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
Some of the invited inaugural Japan visiting Harvard Faculty are:
- Prof. David Weitz: Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Applied Physics at Harvard University, Director of the Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group.
- Paul Hayre: Inaugural Executive Director of Harvard Grid, to accelerate the pace of startup formation in Harvard science and engineering.
- Prof. Paul Bottino: Executive Director, Innovation Education, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
- Dr. John Warner: co-founder, President, and CTO at the Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, as well as co-founder and President of Beyond Benign. Recipient of the Perkin Medal.
- Ted James, MD: Director, Health Care Transformation Harvard Medical School Corporate Learning; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Medical Director, Breast Center
- Prof. Nicholas Coburn-Palo: Prof. of Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution at Harvard, and consulting negotiation trainer for UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research)
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Select leading Japanese corporations, through their Corporate Venture Capital, Innovation Units, and Corporate Venture Studios, are part of TECH Tokyo ready to partner and explore opportunities for co-research and development, investment, distribution, and more.
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Harvard is the number one university in the world for science and entrepreneurial results. Japan is booming with excellent research and promising startups.
TECH-Tokyo is the bridge. -
Top Japanese universities will contribute their expertise in the Japanese ecosystem.
Interested to join as a Corporate Member or Sponsor?
Please contact us!
MEET THE TEAM
Shibuya Sakura Stage, A1 Building, 37th floor
1-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
東京都渋谷区桜丘町1番1号ほ 37階