INNO Disruptive Challenge
A program by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) taking aim at conventional wisdom to inspire and cultivate the seeds of disruptive innovation from all walks of life with support of up to 3,000,000 JPY for up to one year.
In this new-normal era, a significant increase in the need for innovation within the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) field has arisen. In response, we call upon those who boldly take on new challenges without the fear of failure to take part in the Disruptive Challenge.
In order to clarify the path of the "Ambitious Technical Goal", every challenger will receive support through their own made-to-order system.
The INNO Disruptive Challenge is separated into a 2-step process.
0 to 1 Challenge
The 0 to 1 Challenge is an opportunity to put your ideas to the test and experiment in lighting up the path towards realization (your "Ambitious Technical Goal"), without fear of failure.
Freely set your own time period and budget (time period up to 4 months; budget up to ¥1,000,000) and set your sights toward the Disruptive Challenge. At any time, through self-assessment and your own judgment, you may submit a request to the executing agency to advance to the Disruptive Challenge. Upon passing this selection, you may advance to the Disruptive Challenge.
Period: Up to 4 months
Support amount: Up to ¥1,000,000.
Disruptive Challenge
Press onward toward your "Ambitious Technical Goal". The 0 to 1 Challenge's time period and support budget are deducted from the overall time and budget limit of one year and ¥3,000,000, respectively. (For example, the earlier the 0 to 1 Challenge is completed, the longer the time period for the Disruptive Challenge becomes).
You will be able to take a graduation assessment at that time.
Period: Up to maximum of 1 year (including the 0 to 1 challenge)
Support amount: Up to a total of ¥3,000,000 (including the 0 to 1 Challenge)
Announcement of final selection for the 2020 "Disruptive Challenge" Category
■The Disruptive Challenge Proposal Titles
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
Development of a Strawberry Pollination Control Algorithm that Imitates Honeybees for Automatic Pollination Robots
Ichikawa Yuuki
Tokyo
Pursuit of AI that can Fulfill Your Fashion Ideals
Katou Natsumi
Tokyo
Biodegradable Instant House: A House of the Future that can be Built with the Whole Family
Kitagawa Keisuke
Aichi
WALKCAR, A Car that can be Carried Around in a Bag
Satou Kuniaki
Tokyo
Stickers coated with 100% natural formulations that extend fruits shelf life by 3-4 times longer
Zhafri Zainudin
Malaysia
A Realistic Piano Performance Experience with the Support of a Superbly Attentive Robot
Nishioka Hayato
Tokyo
Establishment of the Optimum Structure of a Drone Mass Production Method Using Integrally Composed Circuitboards, Sensors, and Wiring
Hanyuuda Gouta
Nagano
Big Data Archiving Technology that can be Used/Available 100 Years From Now
Furushou Shinji
Kanagawa
Creation of "Taste Media"
Miyashita Houmei
Tokyo
Development of a New Smartphone Health Check System Based on Skin Sensations on the Finger
Yoshimura Shinichi
Osaka
■Zero to One Challenge Proposal Titles
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
Improvement and Multimedization of Buncho, the Scenario Creation Support AI
Oosone Hiroyuki
Chiba
A Monetization Service for Bookstores Based on E-Book Reviews
Kanazawa Kimihito
Kanagawa
A New Product Creating a Fresh New Place of Expression by Breathing a Sense of Life Into All Kinds of Clothes.
Kayama Shoudai
Tokyo
Something to Protect Everyone's Eyes
Kimura Hinata
Tokyo
Voice Shower
Taiga Rii
Kanagawa
"Syrinx", a Device to Recover a Lost Voice
Takeuchi Masaki
Kanagawa
Application Development to Train Elementary School Children Who Will Play an Active Role in the Future
Takeuchi Yuuto
Osaka
Systemization of Stage Theater Techniques and Verification of Application Possibilities for Full Remote Theater Video Shooting Robitics Technology
Tanaka Yoshimaru
Tokyo
SSpatial Timer ~Feel the Presence of Another Person~
Nakajima Chizuru
Tokyo
Improving Accessibility of AI Technology Development for a Diversity-Inclusive Sustainable AI Society
Hasuo Takashi
Tokyo
A Solar-Power 'Plant', the Plant Every Home Will Want
Hanazono Sonoe
Osaka
Emergency Helicopter Aerial Photography, A Method of Capturing a Bird's-Eye View of Medical Information During a Disaster's Acute Phase Using a Banner (SOS Sheet)
Fuse Akira
Tokyo
Development of a Technology to Visualize All Kinds of Conversations by Focusing on Quantatitve Information
Mizumoto Takeshi
Saitama
From Today You are Disabled! A Prototype MR (Mixed Reality) System to Let People Experience the Daily Difficulties of Those with Disabilities.
Miyazaki Eiichi
Kagawa
《ARama!》: The AR Camera Application that Turns People and Objects Around You Into Items to Play With
Morishita Makoto
Gifu
Development of a Non-Invasive Voluntary Movement Suppression Device for Full Immersion Technology Using TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)
Watanabe Ryuutarou
Tokyo
2019 Proposal Titles
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
Astrophotography in urban areas with deep learning
Takuya Ikoma
Hiroshima
Unkore, an app utilizing poop and beatiful girls to help with early detection of colorectal cancers
Yosuke Ishii
Tokyo
Bone regeneration therapy while avoiding iPS cell tumorigenesis
Hiroshi Egusa
Miyagi
Time-writing Clock
Suzuki Kango
Tochigi
Proposal of a new human-robot interface by integrating swarm robotics into the environment
Ryo Suzuki
USA - Colorado
Construction of a Septenary (7-ary) arithmetic unit using a 3D digital medium that surpasses von Neumann architecture's binary limitations
Akira Takizawa
Nagano
Robots, do the Waltz!
Ko Fukuhara
Miyagi
Continue making "Wasted Creation" YouTube Channel
Marina Fujiwara
Tokyo
Development of a SIM card-equipped hearing aid & service platform for the elderly
Jyunichihiro Yoshiwara
Tokyo
2018 Proposals
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
Development of a Magnetically Guided Endoscope Capsule for the Digestive Tract
Naoki Omiya
Aichi
Improvement of the Urination Display System for a Device Reproducing Urinary Incontinence Sensation; Miniaturization and Modularization for Popularization of the Device.
Takayuki Kameoka
Tokyo
Implementation of a HapticHMD by Building a Motion-Induced Illusion Phenomenon System Based on the "Hanger Reflex"
Yuuki Kon
Tokyo
Development of a "Glowing Pupil" Interface to Attract People
Yoshihiro Sejima
Okayama
A Humanoid Table Tennis Robot Which Can Read and Predict Movements of Humans
Kazutoshi Tanaka
Tokyo
Making Race Pigeons Homing Pigeons Again! A Response to the Frequency of Natural Disasters
Ken Nakajima
Yamanashi
Identification of Newborn Chicken's Sex Using Robots
Yusuke Nakano
Kagawa
Construction of Distributed Stereophonic Sound System and Content Production
Namikawa Kosaku
Tokyo
Development of a "Solid Knitting" Modelling Machine
Yuichi Hirose
Tokyo
Development of a Prenatal Diagnosis Method of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)
Shinji Fukuya
Aichi
Autonomous Flight Control of a Vertical Take-off and Landing Flapping Flying Robot
Takanobu Watanabe
Tokyo
2017 Proposals
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
Development of environment identification technology for semantic AR that enables advanced interaction
Alcyone
California, USA
Development of the "Steth♡scope" device
Shinpei Ogawa
Kumamoto
Research on bipedal walking technology for creating a giant humanoid robot that humans can board and control
Sakamoto Hajime
Osaka
OTON OTON GLASS - research and development of interfaces and services in smart glass that enhance reading ability
Keisuke Shimakage
Tokyo
Acoustic Fart Wave Generating System
Takahashi Nobuhiro
Kanagawa
Cheap multicore FPGA processors! Simple and easy parallel processing with a simple high-performance multicore microcomputer ♪
Tanuma Hideki
Tokyo
Know the movements of the body with a stretchable thread that conducts electricity
Keiichi Torimitsu
Miyagi
Empowering people based on maximizing body cognitive function with wearable devices
Nishida Jun
Beijing, China
Development of an operation interface for a buttocks cleaning device
Takeo Hamada
Tokyo
Development of Tele-ghost system that can transfer a person's consciousness to different places in the world to talk with the local people
Shinichi Fukushige
Osaka
Development of an interface using the "fluidized bed" phenomenon to liquefy particulate subtances
Yasushi Matoba
Saitama
Global warming countermeasures - A CO2 direct air recovery machine, CARS-α
Kazumi Muraki
Yamanashi
Information transmission by air bubble injector
Yoko Yamanishi
Fukuoka
2016 Proposals
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
The pursuit of realistic building destruction video using CG: its production process and release of modeling data
38912 DIGITAL [Tomoyuki Miyake]
Tokyo
Digital Shaman Project: Installing Physical Features of the Deceased on a Home Robot
Etsuko Ichihara
Tokyo
Development of shoes that can break the 10 seconds barrier in 100m running
Ken Endo
Tokyo
Development of an Ogiri Artificial Intelligence that creates personalized comedy for the subject: imitation, foolish, and slapstick
Daisuke Takenouchi
Tokyo
Development of edible robotics: Development of a torus-type robot with a full-circle open circular cross-section that enables propulsion in a body cavity
Kenjiro Tadakuma
Miyagi
Creation of an illusion ball
Shuhei Tsuchida
Hyogo
Development of a next generation facial expression animatronics system
Nakadai Hisanao
Ibaraki
Luminescent Tentacles Animatronics
Akira Nakayasu
Ishikawa
Development of a "recipe prediction function" for realizing pair programming AI
Masashi Nishimoto
Hiroshima
Development of unit module for three-dimensional object modeling that changes color according to the viewing direction and time
Fujiki Jun
Tokyo
2015 Proposals
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
Development of a Next-Generation Camera to Capture the Elasticity and Viscosity of Objects
Takahito Aoto
Osaka
Development of "PROCESS WARP", a distributed processing system
Yuji Ito
Tokyo
UDAR: Development of the Next-Generation Flagship Model of the Electronic Musical Instrument
Michinobu Uda
Chiba
Creating materials that are both hard and soft (An information environment to create all elastic properties within a structure)
Taisuke Oshima
Tokyo
Construction and Implementation of Distributed Algorithms Inspired by Biological Life
Youtarō Katayama
Saitama
Nurture the Next Generation of Talent. The Development of Modular Toys for Anyone to Learn about the Mechanisms of Hardware
Ikkaku Kawaguchi
Ibaraki
FAB OF/FOR/BY THE GIRLS - Surface Processing Technology Specialized for 3D Printing
Saori Kanda
Tokyo
Understanding Cinderella Technology's Visual Communication Among Women Using Selfie Image Analysis
Yuka Kubo
Tokyo
Using the Optical Properties of Jumping Spiders for Computer Vision
Kenichi Tsuchiya
Tokyo
Development of a Platform which Enables Identification and Classification of Cell-Likeness by Imaging Gene Expression Levels and Epigenome Data
Masahiro Nakamura
Kyoto
Highly reliable embedded OS
Yosuke Furusawa
Iwate
Unravelling the Conspiracies of Sound
Toshitaka Hosaka
Ibaraki
A Superhuman Suit to "Feel" Your Surroundings
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
Fukuoka
Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence. An Application of Quantum Annealing Algorithms to Deep Learning
Yuichiro Minato
Kanagawa
2014 Proposals
Proposal Title
Full Name
Location
Drug analysis support using cell image recognition
Makoto Ishibashi
Oita
Creation of a human interface using a computational field
Yoichi Ochiai
Tokyo
A product that serves as a platform that connects cars and apps
Yosuke Saki
Tokyo
Improving Science, particularly medicine, with the mantra "Science is Correct and Fun"
Theo Hirofumi
Tokyo
A Study to Reshape Rooms with Construction Technology
Shohei Takei
Tokyo
A Computerized Earring
Kazuhiro Taniguchi
Hiroshima
Research to give Human Eyes Robotic Power
Takayuki Todo
Tokyo
A Visual Jack System
Takashi Tokuda
Nara
PROJECT AFTER LIFE
Shiho Fukuhara
Tokyo
Fully automatic drawing program
Takahiro Yasuda
Aichi
