Medical Industry Innovation Institute

The medical industry is expected to play a central role in the growth strategy for Japan’s Economic Revitalization, The country is currently in a favoured, and quite unique position in that medical care is available for the entire population through the social security system. This framework has enabled an eco-system which develops significant medical solutions on a large-scale to meet increasing demand. The needs are changing and demands are increasing, as the population rapidly ages. This is demanding greater human resources in the medical industry, as well as bringing new entrants, from a variety of fields, as new transformational solutions are sought to obviate accelerating cost increases. In these dynamic circumstances, a variety of stakeholders are stressing the need to create a new, world-class, social system, with innovative business models that abhor bureaucracy, encourage collaboration and co-creation, facilitate translational research and empower innovators.
In this year’s course, we will invite top leaders, from different leadership perspectives in industry, government, academic, or medicine, who will share their thoughts and experiences under the common theme of the leading-edge challenges to the future industrial development of the medical industry. We anticipate that these different perspectives will enhance the discussions for making proposals on regulatory reform for a new medical and social system, with transformational business models that reflect closer, public-private partnership