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Open Innovation Conference 2024 Breaking Barriers We will hold a new world guided by the fusion of different fields.
Last Updated January 17, 2024
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January 17, 2024
Economic Affairs Bureau Industrial Collaboration Promotion Section
Hiroshi Iwafune
Phone number: 045-671-2574
Fax: 045-664-4867
Yokohama City and the Kihara Memorial Yokohama Life Science Foundation are working to create business opportunities, such as matching and expanding sales channels, in order to link the research and development of small and medium-sized enterprises and startups in the city to practical use.
The Open Innovation Conference 2024 will be held online to exhibit at companies, research institutes, and universities with technologies related to the life science field, and to match with visitors.
We have prepared content that allows you to interact with exhibiting companies so that it can be used to build new networks and create business opportunities, so please join us.
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