Japan has faced the super-matured society where there has been the ever low-growth economy along with a decrease in population and highly aged society. It is thus certain that Japan should be an innovative nation to aim at development of science, technology and values. For the super-matured society to achieve this, an investment for science and technology and development of highly qualified human resources will be critically needed. However, we have been facing daunting issues. For instance, ranging from 15 to 20 billion yen, the research funding for the cooperation among industry, government and academia at Department of Science and Technology of Keio University, has little changes for ten years. In addition, many issues on the education of young researchers have been accumulated. To achieve a role of universities and embody practical learning (Saiyansu) for our society as a watering hole* for a cooperation between a number of excellent industries and technologies, in this Talk Session, Keio Innovation Foundry (KIF) will be introduced and a number of panelists from industries will be invited to discuss issues from a view points of industry and academia: (1) Is Keio University able to contribute to research for industries and to generation of venture companies or entrepreneurs of university and development of human resources in next generations?; (2) As facing the open-innovation era, does an industry actively make its efforts in accepting seeds that have been grown in other companies or universities?

Thanks to the ongoing cooperation between medicine and engineering, recent advances in video image technology have made it feasible to indicate signs of cancer at earlier stages than previously possible. Thus, cross-industry cooperation in medicine, ICT and chemistry etc., have become increasingly important. Living in an aging society, our theme here is to discuss how our society can maintain high health standards by detecting and preventing illness through utilizing advancements in technology.