1. Companies or organizations with corporate status.

2. Companies or organizations with in-house services and products that can be verified by the use of PoC.

3. Companies capable of collaboration with TOPPAN and Partners.

1. Competitive advantage/innovation

2. Contribution to solving social issues

3. Business and market growth potential

4. Does the PoC plan meet the needs of partner companies and TOPPAN?

* Please check "Explanatory materials for start-up companies" and formulate a plan. It is also possible to propose multiple PoC projects. You can see "Download Materials" to view "Entry sheet" and "Explanatory materials for start-up companies".

【1st stage screening】 application documents

【Final stage screening】 Online pitching

* Partner companies may participate in the final selection on a voluntary basis.

[The material download]

Click "Download Materials" button below to view "Entry Sheet" and "Explanatory materials for start-up companies".

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[Application documents]

Click the "ENTRY" button, fill out the entry form, and submit the following documents I. and II.

I. Entry sheet

* Excel (xlsx) format

II. Selection materials

* PDF format

II. Selection materials should include all items 1 to 7 below in a free layout. Please indicate the relevant part with titles/patches, etc. Each item is subject to evaluation.

1. The corporate profile

(the inclusion of the corporate vision and what sort of world vision you would like to project in the profile)

2. Overview of product services

3. Issues that can be solved / provided values

(What sort of issues to be solved, for whom and how? How would it be pleased to someone?)

4. The advantage and features of product services

5. Business scale/ growth potential marketing plan

6. Product services performance

(Such as Implemented companies, demonstrative cases, development status of providing services)

7. The contents of the demonstration experiment that will be carried out with TOPPAN and the partner companies

(Such as, the contents you wish for to demonstrate or display, about the roles of each company, the fields and assets you would like to work for)

・ We cannot answer inquiries regarding the progress, content and results of the examination.

・ Entry materials (including selection documents and reference materials) will not be returned. In addition, entry materials will be disclosed to TOPPAN and partner companies.

・ The results of the examination do not guarantee that PoC will be implemented for businesses that have passed the final examination. Details regarding the implementation of PoC will be decided through discussions between TOPPAN and the companies who have passed the final stage screening.

・ As to the application materials and planning contents included therein it is the responsibility of the applicant company not to infringe upon the intellectual property of any third party including copyright, patent right, design right, utility model right or trademark right. Please conduct a thorough survey in advance.

・ As a general rule, the copyright of materials submitted for screening shall be retained by the applicant company.

・In regard to the attribution of inventions, devices, designs, copyrights, know-how and other intellectual property related to the implementation of the demonstration project contents, ownership shall be decided in consultation between the applicant company and TOPPAN. It will be decided after a separate consultation. In addition, if the applicant company, alone, wishes to acquire intellectual property rights for an invention, device, design, copyrighted material, know-how, etc., please be sure to declare it to the co-necto secretariat when submitting the materials for the first examination.