This project will conduct entrepreneurship training courses for children, students (elementary, junior high, high school and university), and adults throughout Japan to broaden their horizons for entrepreneurship, and will also collaborate with various innovation awards and business contests to collect business ideas from all over Japan and discover entrepreneurs to be supported. We will also collaborate with various innovation awards and business contests to gather a large number of business ideas from across the country and identify entrepreneurs for support. The program supports the commercialization of business plans of startups and entrepreneurs (including pre-commercial entrepreneurs) selected from the discovery activities, as well as their business expansion with a view to overseas business development.

Until now, the nurturing, discovery, and growth support of entrepreneurs has been carried out individually by various institutions and organizations. This project is a challenging initiative that on a nationwide scale and in a single integrated manner. We have named the project “UPDATE EARTH” with the aim of creating companies from Japan that will take the world by storm and transform society for the better.