Japanese start-up firms are developing next-generation solar panels and microchips.
Imagine if you could put an ultra-thin, transparent solar sheet on your window to generate energy, not just from sunlight but also artificial lights from inside your room?
Start-ups such as this are called "deep tech". They are small firms who are merging high-tech engineering innovation with scientific discovery. The hope is that it will lead to the development of transformational products. "But in order to commercialise these deep-tech companies it requires a long time and a large amount of money."
But even before the university started offering support to entrepreneurs, the city of Kyoto was known for producing start-ups. These include Nintendo. It may be a computer game giant today, but when it launched way back in 1889 it made playing cards.which was founded in 1959 by the late Kazuo Inamori, one of Japan's best-known business leaders.
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