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Name
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Entrepreneurial Training
for Innovative Communities. |
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| Establishment |
1993 as a Waseda University student Organization, incorporated in March
2000 |
Employees
| 15 full-time employees (25 paid members) |
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Budget
| Appx. 200 million yen a year |
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| Activities | Provision of opportunities for young people
to build their enterprising capacity
-long-term internship at venture organizations (related site:Japan
Times)
-support business startups (Entrepreneur Seminar, Business Plan Contest)
-local community activation projects in cooperation with the Ministry
of Economy,
-Trade and Industry (METI), etc. |
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| Officers |
Executive Director Haruo
Miyagi (related site:sophia
bank)
Directors: Taizo Son (CEO, Asian Groove)
Allen Minor (CEO, SunBridge Corp., founder of Venture Habitat)
Masahisa Sato (UNESCO Asia Culture Center)
Auditor: Shuichi Matsuda, Professor, Waseda Univ. Graduate School of Asia-Pacific
Studies |
Achievements
| 2000 students and 650 companies participated
in the Internship Program
More than 150 entrepreneurs (127 among whom were Internship Program
participants) have been developed. METI Minister Award 2006 (for Training
Entrepreneurs)
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