Okayama University’s newly restructured Innovation Management Core (IMaC; formerly Okayama University Open Innovation Organization)
has been implementing efficient and effective activities to strengthen
research capabilities, encourage industry-academia collaboration and
co-creation, and stimulate innovation through project management. As
part of its activities, IMaC is an academic sponsor of the PMI Japan Chapter (Chapter Headquarters: Chuo Ward, Tokyo; Chairman: KATAE Aritoshi),
which forms part of the world's largest professional organization for
project management, the Project Management Institute (PMI).
On November 23, Okayama University participated in the “PM Award 2021”
as a special sponsor. The award ceremony was held at Hilton Tokyo
(Shinjuku Ward) and was organized by the PMI Japan Chapter to honor
outstanding projects lead by domestic and Japanese companies and
organizations. During the ceremony, Okayama University awarded the
“Okayama University SDGs Innovation Award” to NTT
DATA Corporation for its social action project “Using AI Diagnostic
Imaging Technology to Increase Access to Tuberculosis Examinations for
100,000 People in India”.
This year marks the first iteration of the Japan Chapter PM Award. As
part of the judging process, applications were reviewed by a panel of
academic and industry experts and evaluated according to their
performance in the following categories: “innovation”, “value”,
“organizational impact” and “contribution”. Okayama University Vice
Executive Director SATOH Norito, who acts as Okayama University’s
University Research Administrator (URA) in Charge of Research and
Industry-Academia Co-Creation and is also a Senior Science and
Technology Policy Fellow for the Cabinet Office in Tokyo, as well as an
angel investor who has both lead and participated in multiple domestic
and international projects across various fields, participated as a
panelist.
Six finalists were selected, after which they were introduced in a
seminar and voting took place online. NTT DATA Corporation was announced
as the winner of the Okayama University SDGs Innovation Award and the
award was later presented by Okayama University Vice President and
Executive Director in Charge of Research NASU Yasutomo. NTT DATA
Corporation also won the prestigious “Best Project Award”.
The NTT DATA project aligns with the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), which Okayama University has set at the core
of corporate management. The project aims to stop the spread of
tuberculosis, which, despite being recognized as a “disease of the past”
in Japan, has been identified as one of the “three major infectious
diseases in the world” that results in loss of life for many people
around the world and has a devastating social and economic impact. Not
only does the project intend to help meet the health targets of the
SDGs, but it also uses cutting-edge technology to provide services that
ensure “no one gets left behind” and can serve a model for medical
education and research activities at Okayama University.
In the near future, Okayama University hopes to use the PM Award as an
opportunity to create new connections that promote industry-academia
co-creation by setting up forums and activities where those involved in
the NTT DATA project can exchange opinions and match research seeds to
needs with Okayama University researchers and Okayama University
Hospital medical personnel.
〇Click
here to read comments by Executive Director in Charge of Research NASU
Yasutomo and Vice Executive Director in Charge of Industry-Academia
Co-creation SATOH Norito (in Japanese)
〇Related Resources
・PM Award 2021 homepage (in Japanese)
・“PM
Award 2021” Recognizing Outstanding Projects in Japan Awards NTT DATA
Corporation with Prestigious “Best Project” for its SDGs Project! （PMI
Japan Chapter Press Release in Japanese）
https://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/news/index_id10930.html
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