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  1. A Design Support Tool for Entrepreneurship Education Courses (Using the Japanese Edition of the EntreComp v1 Guide)

    On Saturday, December 6 and Sunday, December 7, 2025, I led the FD (Faculty Development) program of the 2025 National Entrepreneurship Talent Development Program, hosted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. As entrepreneurship education spreads, …

  2. "Industry Creation" Between Startups and Regions

    Summary by NotebookLM. In thinking about startups, I am once again feeling the importance of considering the "industry as a whole." There are two main reasons: ... Expanding the unit of thought "from companies to industries" ...

  3. Competition Is for Producing Winners: On Supporting the Global Expansion of Startups

    The strength of American and Chinese companies in new industries such as software seems to owe something to the real demand and the depth of competition in each country's mother market. In the United States, for example, many startups are born in a single field, and competition between products happens as a matter of course…

  4. Calculating the "Theoretical Maximum" of a Deep Tech Business's Impact

    When thinking about business ideas for deep tech startups, I believe it is important to establish the theoretical upper and lower bounds before development, in order to see a technology's social impact and business potential. Basically, the size of the social impact is…

  5. The Potential of Non-Profit Company Creation

    So far I have written several articles on company creation for for-profit startups and on non-profit startups. Efforts that combine the two, which could be called "Non-Profit Company Creation" or "Social Company Creation," have also begun around the world…

  6. Ask "Why Now?" of Startup Support, Too

    The government-led Five-Year Startup Development Plan is reaching its halfway point, and regions across Japan have begun actively supporting startups. Yet the support methods on offer seem to be either what was taught five or ten years ago, or overseas support programs imported as they are…

  7. A Typology of "Company Creation"

    I have started hearing the terms "company creation" and "Venture Creation Model." However, these terms seem to be used quite broadly, so for the sake of future discussion I would like to organize them in my own way. When an entrepreneur starts a new company…

  8. Abundance: A New Direction for the American Left

    The 2025 House of Councillors election is over, and I feel that Japanese politics is about to change significantly. Meanwhile, the political landscape in the United States is also changing substantially. In particular, the Democratic Party, which is positioned on the left, is actively searching for and shifting toward its next agenda and political ideas in the wake of its defeat in the 2024 presidential election…

  9. Beyond Design Thinking 🎨🧠: Toward a Grand Design 🗺️

    Summary by NotebookLM. In Japan today, there seems to be a growing demand in many places to draw up a "long-term, big-picture vision." Startups are one example. In today's startup ecosystem, founders are expected to build larger companies…

  10. Global Change and Entrepreneurial Opportunity Surrounding Japanese Startups in 2025

    Just about this time last year, in June 2024, I wrote an article titled "To Stop the 'Beginning of the End' of Japan's Startup Boom." In that article, I...