AIST Tsukuba central

AIST Tsukuba east

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National Institute of Advanced Industrial

Science and Technology

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AIST Tsukuba west

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AIST Tokyo Waterfront

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and

Technology

AIST Tokyo Waterfront, “Bio and IT Fusion Research Base”

UK

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Ministry of Economy, Trade and

Industry (METI)

Ministry of Education, Culture,

Sports, Science and Technology

(MEXT)

New Energy and Industrial

Technology Development

Organization (NEDO)

AIST

Japan Science and

Technology Agency (JST)

RIKEN National Institute of

Material Science

(NIMS)JAXA

1. AIST Overview

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Hokkaido National Industrial Research Institute

Tohoku National Industrial Research Institute

National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research

National Research Laboratory of Metrology

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research

National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology

Electro technical Laboratory

Geological Survey of Japan

National Institute for Resources and Environment

National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya

Osaka National Research Institute

Chugoku National Industrial Research Institute

Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute

Kyushu National Industrial Research Institute

National Institute ofAdvanced IndustrialScience and Technology (AIST)

ProfileOrigin of AIST was established in 1882. In 2001, 15 research institutions were integrated into AIST.

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Department of Energy and Environment

5 Research Institutes and 3 Research centers

Department of Life Science and Biotechnology

4 Research Institutes and 1 Research center

Department of IT and Human Factors

3 Research Institutes and 3 Research centers

Department of Materials and Chemistry

5 Research Institutes and 4 Research centers

Department of Electronics and Manufacturing

3Research Institutes and 4 Research centers

Geological Survey of Japan

3Research Institutes and 1 center

National Metrology Institute of Japan4Research Institutes and 1 center

PresidentOrganization

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Total 11,139

92.9 B JPY（$845M) 110JPY = 1USD

Government 14.9M

$135M

Private sectors etc. 6.4B $58MOthers 5.2B $49M

Subsidy Government private sector Others

Subsidy 66.4B

$604M

産総研の概要（5/6）Bridging for innovation

Social recognition Creation of social andeconomic values

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pact

to s

ocie

ty

“Valley of death”

Science InnovationTechnology

Bridging

Discovery/Invention

CommercializationIndustrialization

Academia Industry

Bridging Science and Innovation with Technology

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Open Innovation Platform :TIA

External researchers 650

Industrial partners 145

Annual investment 99.2M€

Income from industry 38%

(As of 2015)

Producing SiC Power Device Prototype in Pilot plant(with Fuji Electric Co.)

Building Plant for Mass Production of Carbon Nanotube

(with ZEON Co.)

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High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

AIST

NIMS

KEKUniv.

Tokyo

Univ.

Tsukuba

(Since 2009)

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２３±１℃４５±５％3000m2

Super clean room

Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST

Open Innovation Platform :FREA

Solar Power Wind Power Hydrogen Energy Storage

Geothermal &Ground-Source Heat

Employees@2017 :421

Facility: 78,000㎡

Research budget FY2016:2.8BJPY

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Why International collaboration?

Global Issues

National Competitiveness

Presence Enhancement

AIST GNP for Future

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NTNUSINTEFIFE

IMEC

CNRSCEA/DRTBIPM

CSIRDBT

CGS

VTT

VNIIMS

MMRE

VAST

SNLLANLNRELLBNLLLNLNISTSRNLORNLBNLUSGS

KIGAMKRISS

USA

CENAM

Mexico

INMETRO

Brazil

Korea

ITRI

Taiwan

SIRIM

Malaysia

BPPTIndonesia

GNSNew Zealand

CSIROAustralia

South Africa

India

France

Belgium

Germany NorwayFinland

Russia

Mongolia

Vietnam

CASSJTUNIM

China

NSTDATISTRNIMT

Thailand

UKThe Univ. ofSheffield

Fh.GPTB

Collaboration : Global Network

Joint lab with CNRS (France) in robotics

Joint lab with DBT (India) in bio medicine

(as of 2016.5)

MyanmarDGSE

CanadaNRCan

ArgentinaSEGEMAR

All specific MOUs are not shown here.

Comprehensive MOU

Specific MOU

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Recent JRL members

CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory)

Joint laboratory between CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

and AIST at Tsukuba

Ph.D candidates

Université Montpellier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1DuJQL8spY 15

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Science and Technology (AIST). All rights reserved.

AIST

Hardware

Software Joint research @JRL UMI3218/RL (https://jrl-umi3218.github.io/)

An Airbus manufacturing plant in Alabama (US).https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/putting-humanoid-robots-to-work 16Airbus logo and image from http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/

CNRS

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Active pharmaceutical ingredients

$0.3M × 3years, 2014-2016

$1M × 3years from DBT, 2017~

DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB) at AIST

Tsukuba and Regional Center for Biotechnology (RCB), India

ashwagandha

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Fraunhofer Institute

ISE; 3 research institutes (NREL, Fraunhofer and AIST)

collaborated in PV. Symposium, exchange of young

researchers

ILT; single crystalline memory materials growth with laser

IPA; Electro active polymer, A secretariat staff

Head quarter

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AI that solves complex problems in society, in cooperation with people.

Artificial Intelligence Research Centre

A pathologist diagnoses biopsy tissues as normal (healthy) or

abnormal (e.g. cancer) through microscopic observation.

Example of normal image Example of cancerous image

Nucleus

Cytoplasm

Background

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Very hard work: judging 1 sample image within 30 seconds.

The number of patients are increasing rapidly.

HLAC: Higher-order Local Auto Correlation

Health, Medical care & Wellness

Pathological Diagnosis

N. Otsu, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 9,

p.62-66 (1979). Citation 11,027 (21 Nov., 2017)

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Security & Safety

Result of Mega Solar Power Plant Detection

Thank you for attention

Integration for Innovation