Many companies in the Tohoku region have been facing financial, technological, human resource-related and various other kinds of difficulties since the Great East Japan Earthquake. With the aim of fostering innovation and strengthening the industrial infrastructure, which serves as the basis for the economic revitalization of the disaster-affected areas, it is needed strengthening of cooperation between industry and the university.

Tohoku University will support companies in the areas, and work towards the commercialization of our technological intellectual property within the framework of the industry-academia-government collaboration.