KMD offers multiple frameworks for co-creation, allowing collaboration in various forms depending on the partner’s objectives.
These include Research Centers, which organize cross-industry consortia; Joint Labs, where multiple KMD labs collaborate on specific topics; and Collaborative or Contract Research, where an individual KMD lab works directly with a partner.
Details and application procedures for each framework are provided below.
Research Center
This is a co-creative research organization where diverse stakeholders from industry, academia, government, and civil society collaborate to address high-impact public challenges that hinder the realization of a desirable future society.
Transcending the interests of individual companies or institutions, it pursues innovations that serve society as a whole—conducting continuous research that spans from the creation of technologies and designs to their implementation in systems and culture.
As a “co-creation engine for shaping the future,” it brings together partners from across sectors—industry, academia, government, and the public—to reconstruct the very framework of future society through the integration of technology, design, policy, and culture.
Joint Lab
This is an industry–academia collaboration framework in which KMD’s diverse labs and partner companies join forces to envision the future and conduct joint research and development addressing complex, multilayered social challenges.
By bringing together expertise in Design, Technology, Management, and Policy—the essential domains for solving contemporary issues—this framework supports the creation of new products, services, and social innovations.
Joint Research
Industry–academia collaboration with the power to transform society is at the core of KMD.At KMD, each faculty member connects their area of expertise with real-world social challenges, promoting collaborative and commissioned research with companies, municipalities, and organizations.By combining KMD’s creativity with the implementation capabilities of industry, we create future technologies, industries, and new forms of social value through prototype development, social experiments, and service design.
Giving
Donations and endowments are used to provide financial support for outstanding students, enhance the educational and research environment, and promote strategic initiatives such as internationalization.
Endowed courses serve as a support program for offering subjects on cutting-edge topics.
We sincerely invite your support in nurturing the next generation.