As the key facility for town innovation, the Lab will facilitate early commercialization of innovative new ideas through collaboration among Panasonic, Tsunashima SST, the community and local government. Innovations born through the active exchange of ideas can be tested within the community and developed into new business opportunities through collaboration with various companies.
Panasonic founder Konosuke Matsushita promoted manufacturing as the path to Japan’s economic development from a global perspective, and Keio University founder Yukichi Fukuzawa was a cultural leader who played a prominent role in Japan’s modernization. The Tsunashima SST Lab aims to cultivate a new generation of innovators who will carry on the spirit of two of Japan’s greatest innovators.