Strengths
and Unique Features

Strengths and Unique Features

STIN aims to nurture and produce future leaders who combine a science background with entrepreneurship and prepare them for a successful career in the global arena by offering consistent education to acquire a whole set of skills necessary to complete the entire journey from R&D in advanced science and technology to building innovation strategies for translating academic findings into business. STIN positions four natural science fields (namely, Bioproduction, Advanced Membrane Technology, Advanced Information and Communication Technology, and Advanced Medical Science) and social science fields, including entrepreneurship, as the pillars of its education and research. By fusing these fields, we expect to create new fields of science and technology and new disciplines and build an ecosystem that continuously incubates innovations by efficiently combining education, R&D, and business creation. We aim to be a global initiative hub to create innovation in science and technology.

(1) Bringing Together Cutting-Edge Research Fields

The natural science fields pursued at STIN are Bioproduction, Advanced Membrane Technology, Advanced Information and Communication Technology, and Advanced Medical Science. Kobe University boasts world-class cutting-edge research in these fields, which are producing promising seed technologies with the potential of commercialization. STIN can pursue research in these fields leveraging regional strengths and characteristics, as Kobe is designated as a special zone for advanced medical industries and SPring-8 is situated nearby. Researchers in these fields have come together at STIN to build an education system that offers training from the basics to application of advanced research. We also provide education with an interdisciplinary perspective to allow for the acquisition of knowledge from various fields so that students can acquire a broad perspective in addition to deep expertise.

(2) Education That Integrates Science and Humanities

STIN introduces a novel interdisciplinary research and education system that transcend disciplinary boundaries through organic collaboration between science and humanities, in other words, research and education in advanced science and technology and entrepreneurship. Through this system, STIN cultivates human resources with a science background who can create innovation based on skills for R&D in advanced science and technology fields and design the process for translating academic research findings into business, which ranges from establishing IP rights and developing production technologies to building a go-to-market strategy.

(3) Practical Training

STIN offers practical training through a unique curriculum that includes hands-on practice using a pilot plant and Project-Based Learning (PBL) in which students actually build a business plan. Our instructors include many business practitioners with experience in corporate R&D, new product development, new business development, startup consulting, and investment and incubation of venture firms, as well as law practitioners with expertise in laws and regulations related to intellectual property and venture startup.

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