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Introduction of to the Foundation's activities
The Takeda Foundation was established by Ikuo Takeda, the founder
of Takeda Riken, the present Advantest, in the April of 2001. Efforts have
been made in the research and publicity programs to explore and clarify
the states and directions of cutting-edge technologies in the society from
the view viewpoint of people worldwide, whose population is said to be
6.3 to 6.4 billion at present.
The Foundation holds the Takeda Symposium and Cafe de Science,
and conducts research on the management of technology development. The
mission of the Foundation is to put shed light on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial
achievements that have made or will make significant contributions to the
increasinge in the wealth, richness, and happiness of people. Such achievements
include the development of technologies of semiconductor and PC soft ware
in PCtechnologies, information technologies that to enable global communication,
high quality medical treatments and diagnosis diagnoses based on knowledge
about genomes and DNA, and measurement technologies that can be used to
help us assess the extent of damages in to our the environment. These achievements
have been brought to people by through the efforts of entrepreneurs and
by people's selectionby people. The foundation Foundation tackles research
and publicity programs focusing on the knowledge created by scientists
and engineers, and entrepreneurship that would translates the this knowledge
into actual goods and services. These activities are carried out by our
program Program officersOfficers, and that's one of thea leading characteristics
of our foundationFoundation.
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