GE Starts Accepting Applications from Japanese Firms Via Web Today
Tokyo, Japan, February 10, 2008 -- GE Japan announced that it is will co-host the Japan Technology Forum 2009 with GE Global Research, the centralized research organization for GE at the end of May 2009 in Tokyo. This forum aims to build partnerships between GE and Japanese companies that have world-class technology. GE Japan will accept applications to participate in the forum until February 28 (Saturday), 2009 via the corporate website.
As a part of its main strategy, GE Japan started the Japan Technology Initiative (JTI) in 2004 to promote strategic and mutually complimentary partnerships between Japanese companies with world leading technologies. The forum has been highly recognized as a very efficient business matching opportunity. According to the External Technology Directors Network of Industrial Research Institute, an association that aims to enhance technological innovation in industry in the US, only five to eight percent of companies that are introduced through business matching end up in concrete business discussions on technological cooperation in general. However, five out of 33 companies (approximately 15 percent of the participants) that participated in GE Japan's first Japan Technology Forum 2007 which targeted small-medium-sized businesses are in concrete discussions or considering actual applications together with GE. Unlike the first forum, GE is not limiting the applications to small-medium-sized businesses but encourages a wide rage of Japanese companies to apply regardless of their size.
The major focus areas of this forum are materials sciences, energy conservation, electronics, healthcare and biotechnology and production and process technologies (for more details refer to Supplementary Material 2). GE Japan invites Japanese companies and organizations that are interested in seeking opportunities of deploying their innovative products and services globally through a technology partnership with GE.
GE Global Research Director Mike Little, along with a group of engineers and researchers of the respective focus areas will attend the forum. They will go around each participant's booth to actually see and understand the technology as well as discuss opportunities for collaboration.
Application Details and Process:
| Start date: | February 10, 2008. |
| Eligibility: | Japanese companies that have publicly available technological information and seek the possibility of deploying their innovative products and services globally through a technology partnership with GE. |
| Web site: | GE Japan (http://supportcentral.ge.com/esurvey/takesurvey.asp?p=90557&d=2626657). |
| How to apply: | Interested parties should submit a proposal by filling out the form at the above link. |
| Selection: | GE will choose from among applicant proposals those that demonstrate a potential for forming technology partnerships based on the GE's selection criteria, which have not been made public. Short listed candidates will be contacted directly by GE by mid-March. GE plans to select approximately 30 companies or organizations from the applicants. |
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