Since 1998, TLO (Technology Licensing Office) and incubation offices were founded by universities and local governments to encourage start-up companies spun off from universities. However, it is not only these TLO and incubators but formation of 'fields of resonance' networks between major companies and venture companies that raise venture companies with core technology from early stage to late stage, and brings them to contribute creating new industries. Players of capital markets such as venture capitals should be connectors of the network formation, but unfortunately hardly hold the capability of evaluating emerging industries in Japan. So, we have built up this educational program, thinking that business schools should be a producer for inter-farm network as 'synapse'.The purpose of this program (STEP, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Program) is to teach skills and frameworks for the entrepreneurship, to guide the processes to start actual companies, and to have the students discover the methodology for enhancing the capability of evaluating promising technologies.

The eighth STEP was held for a week in November, 2011, at Silicon Valley,U.S.A. We invited applications for participants in Kansai area.

At Blank House, November, 2011.

The seventh STEP was held for a week in September, 2010, at Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, U.K. We invited applications for participants in Kansai area and selected 25 persons as the actual participants. We had lectures and debate in IfM and visited various venture companies and incuvation centre in Cambridge.

At Hauser Forum, September, 2010.

The sixth STEP was held for a week in November, 2009, at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, USA. We invited applications for participants in Kansai area and selected 20 persons as the actual participants. We had lectures and debate in Berkeley and visited various venture companies and consulting firm in Silicon Valley.

At Google, November, 2009.

The fifth STEP was held for a three days in Sepember, 2008, at Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory / Microelectronics Research Centre / Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K. It was held with ISIS2008 (International Symposium on Innovation Strategy) program. 24 people (Six people : from Japan) gathered.

On the 15th. It lectured by Takayuki Yuasa, Vice-President in Sharp laboratory Europe, Sada Yutaka, Vice-President in Toshiba Cambridge laboratory, and Koichi Tsuzuki CTO in Hitachi Europe. After that we discuss about the difference of the innovation management of three companies.

In the afternoon, it lectured about the actuality of the research by three researcher (in Canon Inc. Europe, Hitachi Central Research Institute, and Hitachi Cambridge). After that Yamaguchi lectured and discussed about approaches to Innovation.

On the 16th It lectured Kazuo Sakai at Meiji University on "Fields of Resonance". It was impressed that the lecture explain by the innovation diagram from the origin of creativity to an educational innovation and marketing.

At Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K., Sepember, 2008.

The fourth STEP was held for a week in July / August, 2007, at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, USA. It was sponsored by 21st Century COE (Center of Excellence) program. We invited applications for participants in Kansai area and selected 22 persons as the actual participants. We had lectures and debate in Berkeley for three days and then moved to San Jose to visit various venture companies as well as venture capitals in Silicon Valley.

At Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley, August, 2007.

The third STEP was held for a week in September, 2006, at Institute for Manufacturing in the University of Cambridge, UK. It was sponsored by 21st Century COE (Center of Excellence) program. We invited applications for participants in Kansai area and selected 23 persons as the actual participants. We had lectures and debate in the morning and then visited various venture companies as well as incubators in Cambridge to learn the so-called Cambridge Phenomenon.

In front of Cavendish Laboratory, September, 2006.

The second STEP was held for a week in September, 2005, at EDHEC (Ecole Superieure de Commerce et Management) , France. It was sponsored by MOT Program of METI. We invited applications for participants in Kansai area and selected 15 persons as the actual participants. We had lectures and debate in the morning in Nice and then visited various R&D centers in Sophia Antipolis, the most successful science park in France.

At EDHEC (Ecole Superieure de Commerce et Management) , September, 2005.

The first STEP was held for a month in November, 2004 at Doshisha Business School and then for a week in December, 2004, at UCLA, USC and UCI, USA. It was sponsored by MOT Program of METI. We invited applications for participants in Kansai area and selected 24 persons as the actual participants to go to USA.

At Doshisha Business School, November, 2004.

At UCLA, December, 2004.