“New combination” is one way of understanding innovation: new value emerges when existing technologies and knowledge encounter something different. Aichi has fermentation technologies and know-how accumulated over hundreds of years. This session views them not as assets of the past, but as a “half-step” toward the future.
This session is held in collaboration with MISO TECH (Marvelous & Innovative Solutions), an event organized by Aichi Prefecture, whose theme this year is fermentation. Leaders from local companies producing koji starter and vinegar join a startup founder to discuss what can emerge when long-established technologies meet the technologies and ideas of startups, going beyond preserving tradition to explore how the future can be built from it.
