THE TAKEDA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES A CALL FOR TOPICS FOR ITS 2003 GRANT PROGRAM
- The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award Funds R&D Which Aspires to
Create New Technologies
Release Date: January 20, 2003
MENLO PARK, Calif. and TOKYO, January 2003 - The Takeda Foundation has
announced a call for topics for the third annual Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship
Award. The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award provides research and development
(R&D) grants to researchers who aspire to create new technologies that
will generate substantial value for people.
These R&D grants will be awarded to individual researchers, or groups
of researchers, in three fields: information/electronics, the life sciences,
and the environment. The monetary value for each of the three grants will
be a maximum of 7 million yen (approximately US$58,000). The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship
Award requires that the funded research have practical applications or
lead to the creation of a commercialized product in the near future.
Grant recipients are selected through a competitive process based on the
merit of their research proposal. At the same time, this award aims to
provide opportunities for collaboration among participants, as well as
the opportunity to communicate with venture capital "angels"/financiers
about the potential for new business creation.
All of these objectives are facilitated through participation in "cyber
(online) workshops." Participants present the originality of their
research proposals, and respond to questions posed by the workshop chairman
and by other participants. These workshop dialogues are taken into consideration
for winner selection.
The Foundation is currently requesting suggestions for session topics in
each of the three fields until February 28th, 2003. The objective of this suggestion process is to identify the most appropriate
workshop sessions by asking a wide audience which research topics they
view as contributing the most value to people's lives. Suggestions are
welcome from any field. After the session topics are determined, the call
for research proposals will occur between May 1st and May 30th, 2003. (Please
note that suggesting a session topic does not qualify one for receipt of
a R&D grant. It is necessary to submit a research proposal once the
session topics are set.)
The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award is open to individuals of all
nationalities and all organizational affiliations (e.g. company, university,
or independent).
SRI International, a leading non-profit research institute based in Menlo
Park, California, is working with the Foundation to expand the global reach
of its programs.
For further information, please contact:
in U.S.A.
David Cheney
SRI International Center for Science, Technology and Economic Development
(703) 247-8707
Email: cheney@wdc.sri.com
in Japan:
Kazuyoshi Shimada & Mariko Tsusaka
The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award Program
The Takeda Foundation
PO Box No. 33
St. Luke's Tower 32F, 8-1 Akashi-cho,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 104-6591
PHONE: +81-3-3549-2781
FAX: +81-3-3549-2787
Email: ttea2003@takeda-foundation.jp |
