| Challenge Owner(s) | NEC |
|---|---|
| Organiser(s) | NEC |
| Industry Type(s) |
Digital/ICT, Healthcare & Biomedical
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| Opportunities and Support | Unlock opportunities in Japan and win up to 2.2 million yen (around 15,000 USD) of funding available for PoC. |
| Application Start Date | 22 August 2024 |
| Application End Date | 4 October 2024 |
| Website | Click here to learn more |
About Challenge
NEC Innovation Challenge 2024
NEC Innovation Challenge (NIC) was launched with the concept, "to create the innovative ideas of the future, we need to bring together the wisdom of the world”. Our goal of this initiative is to create major joint ventures with promising startups from worldwide, by collaboration of the resources of NEC and sponsors.
| Challenge Owner(s) | NEC |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Healthcare & Biomedical |
Healthcare
In 2021, NEC announced its commitment to creating healthcare and life science businesses using AI and other digital technologies as part of the “Creation of Future Growth Businesses” outlined in its 2025 Mid-Term Management Plan. NEC aims to achieve a business value of 500 billion yen by 2030 by focusing on the three areas of medical care, lifestyle support, and life sciences.
What We Are Looking For
Specifically with solutions which are one of the following:
- Solutions that can help hospitals DX through the use of technology
- Solutions that leverage healthcare data
- Solutions that can contribute to drug discovery and development support / clinical trial efficiency / marketing support for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers
| Challenge Owner(s) | NEC |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Healthcare & Biomedical |
Sustainability
NIC considers sustainability to be an important opportunity for corporate growth and is pursuing business studies focusing on the following sub-themes. Through these initiatives, NIC aims to contribute to social development, economic development, and environmental preservation to realize a sustainable future.
- Satellite data: satellite data utilization, satellite data security, satellite communication safety
- Circular Economy: Development of processing technology, traceability, and new applications for recycled plastics, material MI
- Nature Positive: Solutions for visualizing, analyzing, and evaluating the connection between business and biodiversity in response to the TNFD
- Carbon neutral: CO2 emissions forecasting and reduction measures proposal, data linkage with other companies considering expansion of circular economy
- Climate change adaptation measures: Visualization of the social, economic, and environmental value of climate change response measures
- VPP: Utilization of renewable distributed power sources
| Challenge Owner(s) | NEC |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Healthcare & Biomedical |
Digital Operational Excellence
In recent years, the efficiency and automation of field operations have been promoted worldwide. The development of AI and robotics has contributed to this trend. We would like to develop services and products that make use of these technologies.
We are looking for various solutions for workflow optimization, from workflow task maintenance to the use of robots.
In addition, in terms of traceability, we would like to create services and products that contribute to anti-counterfeiting.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking to collaborate in the following areas:
- Workflow optimization: Solutions that utilize AI and robotics to help optimize workflow
- Traceability: Solutions that contribute to anti-counterfeiting using authenticity and forgery detection technology
| Challenge Owner(s) | NEC |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Healthcare & Biomedical |
Media/Entertainment
NEC offers a variety of solutions to support and expand the businesses of companies in the media and entertainment domain (broadcasting stations, newspapers, advertising, etc.). In order to create new businesses and services in the media and entertainment field, NEC hopes to create services that meet market needs and market speed by combining NEC's technology, industry know-how, and customer network with the strengths of the startup companies. DNP has a diverse and global network.
DNP has actualized "XR Communication®*," which allows people of all ages, genders, languages, and other diverse backgrounds to move between the real and virtual worlds without being separated from each other. This creates new experiential value and economic spheres.
*XR Communication is a registered trademark of DNP.
Both NEC and DNP are looking to collaborate with startup companies that have solutions for entertainment content distribution and XR advertising.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking to collaborate in the following areas:
- Entertainment content distribution: specific technologies for video content distribution (content processing, encoding, security, etc.)
- Metaverse: marketing solutions in VR, AR and MR spaces (advertising, experiences, effect measurement, Braintech, Headmount display, etc.)
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