Expert Column:
Industrial R&D in Japan
Dr. Lorenz Granrath
After graduating from University of Karlsruhe in Germany with a degree in Business Administration, Engineering and Computer Science, Dr. Lorenz Granrath earned his doctor at University St. Gallen in Switzerland including a one year stay at Tokyo University.
Following a career in industry and technical consulting, Dr. Granrath took over responsibilities as Chief Representative Japan of Fraunhofer, Europe’s biggest applied research organization, in 2001. After building up the Representative Office in Japan, he succeeded in acquiring R&D contracts and initiating collaborations with research institutes and many major Japanese companies to a level higher then with most countries in Europe.
In 2014, Dr. Granrath started as Supervisory Innovation Coordinator at the Japanese National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and initiated projects in Renewable Energy and AI. In parallel, he represented several high-tech startups and companies in Japan. From 2021 he was one year Assistant Professor at Tohoku University in an EU-Japan project to develop an AI coach for old people. After that, he worked as Japan Representative/Senior Advisor for an IT company, a research institute and trading houses.
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