Collaboration with Society

The basic concept of INIAD (Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design, Toyo University) is, as its name suggests, “collaboration.” This “collaboration” has various meanings. There is collaboration within INIAD—collaboration between teams of people who have acquired different skill sets from the seven subject groups of “Computer Systems,” “Computer Software,” “User Experience,” “Data Science,” “ICT Social Application,” “Business Construction,” and “Community Formation,” or collaboration between students from diverse home countries and working adults with professional experience. Furthermore, collaboration with entities outside of INIAD is also important. This is precisely because it constitutes “open collaboration.”

As the term “open innovation” suggests, open collaboration that transcends organizations is said to be the key to accelerating innovation in the internet age. For this purpose, INIAD has established INIAD cHUB—the Toyo University collaboration Hub for University and Business (Director: Ken Sakamura)—as a “node” for collaboration with society, and indeed the world.

“Open innovation”—researching “collaboration,” teaching “collaboration,” and creating innovation through “collaboration”—is the very purpose and duty of INIAD. That is precisely why we believe that collaborating with INIAD will create many possibilities for external companies, groups, and organizations.