Abstract
Innovation has recently become a more critical element of progress to meet the needs of the times. Today, research is holistically proposed as "an innovation ecosystem" to realize the maintenance and progress of a nation and its capital markets to deliver sustained economic growth for an improved society. In order to move towards finding solutions to the problems identified for our country, we envisioned our future social needs. With this approach we have deliberately broken down the constraining walls of existing fields and organization, to facilitate collaborative social experiment by the industry-academia-government collaboration. Breaking such legacy thinking we explicitly expect to facilitate the practical use translation from the fundamental research stage. This article describes how we set a vision to promote "open innovation" through the industry-academia-government collaboration. Our progress to date is summarized with three points of view such as i) infrastructure (the framework of regulation, policy or environmental maintenance etc.), ii) investment, iii) human resources development) which are critical to build "an innovation ecosystem".
