JTG visits JAPAN'S Academic and research institutions on behalf of ONE OF the US-based largest pharmaceutical companies

Taro Yaguchi, President of the Japan Technology Group in Philadelphia, will travel to Japan to visit more than 40 technology transfer offices as well as venture and university spinout companies on behalf of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States, whose representative is visiting Japan with Yaguchi as well.

Japan Technology Group (JTG) — which was formed in the fall of 2003 as an agent for U.S. companies who seek to transfer innovative technology seeds developed by Japanese universities into the U.S. market — seeks to introduce to the US-based global pharmaceutical firm various untapped and promising Japanese innovations.

This weeklong visit, beginning on Monday, May 24, became possible based on mutual interests between JTG and the leading pharma company which has been seeking ways to reach innovative technologies in Japan.  It said that it was difficult for a non-Japanese firm to simply obtain a list of technologies from academic and research institutions in Japan because everything was in the Japanese language.  

JTG has taken full advantage of its access to a wide pool of technology sources in Japan, including government, academic and private research centers, in order to arrange meeting opportunities for the U.S. company with prestigious universities such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University and Kyushu University, as well as with ventures and spinouts in the Kitakyushu, Osaka/Kyoto/Kobe, and Tokyo/Yokohama areas.

(Posted May 24, 2004)