Strategic Objectives

Innovators Movement with Passion, Action & Collaboration for Tomorrow

IMPACT Japan Impact the World

  1. Develop Impact Platform for Entrepreneurs & Innovators
  2. Activate Untapped People & Passion
  3. Create Impact Research to Support National Policy & Initiatives
  4. Connect the Dots

  1. Develop Impact Platform for Entrepreneurs & Innovators
    • Combine virtual and face to face
    • Curate portal of leading global resources
    • Demystify innovation and entrepreneurship through real world team projects
    • Foster rapid prototyping & learning community
    • Connect early adopters from diverse fields through meta network and community
    • Grow innovators movement around passion, trust, collaboration, and impact
    • Create and support focused communities and platforms such as TEDxTokyo and TEDxTokyo yz

  2. Activate Untapped People & Passion
    • Demonstrate the value of entrepreneurial and design thinking mindsets for everyone
    • Help people dream bigger through a peer community of highly motivated people from diverse backgrounds
    • Develop a physical volunteer center to quickly get people started on the entrepreneurial path through real social entrepreneurship projects
    • Show the value of first followers
    • Highlight a wide range of new role models to demonstrate how everyone can be impact playera
    • Collaborate with other organizations to develop programs targeting specifice segments such as students, women, retirees, inventors, scientists, freeters and NEETs

  3. Create Impact Research to Support National Policy & Initiatives
    • Conduct independent research to define problems with a systems perspective
    • Utilize design thinking’s multidisciplinary, human centered user methodology
    • Leverage research to unify relevant organizations in comprehensive initiatives that no one group could accomplish

    Early Initiatives:

    • TEDxTokyo, TEDxTokyo yz and TEDxYouth Day
    • GEW Japan
    • New scholarship and initiative to promote study abroad
    • Model open innovation center for tokyo and regional cities

  4. Connect the Dots
  5. Between

    • Ideas
    • Innovators
    • Impact organizations
    • Disciplines and sectors
    • Stakeholders necessary for whole systems solutions
    • Business, academia, government, and the citizen sector
    • Japan & the world

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