A guide for new business developers, compiling the essential techniques to drive open innovation and project success.

"Chizai Zukan" explores groundbreaking intellectual property (IP) and unlocks its potential through creative reinterpretation. We highlight cutting-edge technologies, transforming them into tangible business opportunities. Unlike traditional IP databases, Chizai Zukan covers a broad spectrum of innovations—including patents, products, services, and APIs. Our approach goes beyond analysis; we visualize and conceptualize future applications, making complex technologies accessible and actionable. By bridging creativity with IP, we drive new connections, collaborations, and innovation.

Global chemical company Daicel and creative media outlet Chizai Zukan have jointly developed and operated Bipass, a web media platform dedicated to exploring new resource pathways. Focusing on biomass, Daicel’s core technology, Bipass goes beyond the company’s initiatives to feature efforts from various organizations and industries. By encouraging discussions and raising awareness, it aims to expand the social recognition of biomass and build a network of contributors working toward a sustainable future.

This project brings together the people who work, play, and live in the Greater Shibuya Area to collaborate and share the story of Shibuya's urban transformation.

“SAKURA DEEPTECH SHIBUYA (SDS)” is one of Japan’s largest deep tech startup support hubs, established by Tokyu Land Corporation within the Shibuya Sakura Stage Central Building. In this project, Konel was responsible for the overall brand design, including the logo design, website, and visual guidelines. The logo’s structure overlays the image of sakura branches extending flexibly in all directions with the growth and evolution of deep tech startups gathering in Shibuya, symbolizing both continuity and transformation.

Nakahara Nyan Ken is a prototyping project co-created by Fujitsu Design Center’s team Inspi-Lab and Konel. Its aim is to reinterpret Fujitsu’s advanced technologies from entirely new perspectives and create fresh points of connection between technology and society. Using the motif of cats as a medium, the project explores the future of technology with flexibility and imagination, transforming ideas into unique and approachable experiences. Konel is responsible for planning and developing experiential prototypes, while also utilizing its own media platform, Chizai Zukan, to share the project’s outcomes widely with society. Based in Musashi-Nakahara, Kanagawa Prefecture, where the Fujitsu Design Center is located, Nakahara Nyan Ken is an experimental research team that fuses diverse expertise and creativity to explore new relationships between emerging technologies and everyday life.

Created a concept video for SPEEDA, an economic information research service designed to streamline business intelligence. Already adopted by over 2,000 companies, SPEEDA aims to further expand its market reach. The video effectively communicates SPEEDA's values and benefits in a clear and intuitive way.

With the opening of the Chūō Shinkansen (Maglev) in sight, urban redevelopment is progressing in Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture. The city promotes a vision called “Hashimoto—where the Linear connects people to a step-ahead future,” planning integrated development of the station and surrounding area. Against this backdrop, a collaborative project called Botac has launched, led by Keio Corporation, Green Display Co., Ltd., and Konel Inc.. By using plant-based power generation, the initiative reimagines the station as an environment that evolves through citizen participation. It serves as a symbolic project that aims to transform Hashimoto into a “laboratory for the future.”