The Era of Shared Research and Data: Turning Ideas into Reality Without a Big Budget

This event looks at how far sharing services can cut the research and development costs that block startups and new business units. The first half is about hardware: how lab sharing combined with second-hand equipment lets a team move forward without buying a full kit, and how shared instruments under the ARIM program produced work on biological nano quantum sensors for next-generation medicine. The second half turns to experiment data and AI. Speakers from the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Tokyo Design Technology Center College discuss turning instrument output into knowledge an AI can use, and how data assets that used to sit only inside large companies can become business opportunities for ventures. A talk on a technical talent bank covers sharing the tacit knowledge of veteran engineers. The venue is Room 2F at Tokyo Innovation Base (TIB), in person only. The program runs 17:00 to 19:20, and the final 30 minutes are set aside for co-creation networking around data, research, and AI, with time to exchange cards and talk with the speakers and other attendees.