Creating New Industries from Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture: "NEXT Industry Creation Program" and "F-StartUp" 2025 Fiscal Year Achievement Report Meeting Held

Fukuchiyama City is implementing the "NEXT Industry Creation Program," an entrepreneur human resource development project, in collaboration with Fukuchiyama University and others, with the aim of creating and accumulating new industries. Concurrently, it is working on "F-StartUp" to support business expansion for graduates of the same program. At the Reiwa 7 (2025) fiscal year achievement report meeting held on February 28, 2026, 4 teams from the NEXT Industry Creation Program and 3 businesses from F-StartUp presented their respective business proposals and practical achievements. Furthermore, this project also involves practical business verification utilizing crowdfunding, with 2 teams challenging in fiscal year 2025 and raising a total of 2.52 million yen (cumulative 9.81 million yen over 5 years). Through these practices, the social implementation of ideas and marketability verification are being promoted.

NEXT Industry Creation Program (PBL)

①In-house Proposal Plan for Industry-Specific Training Business - The Importance of Stakeholder Management and Speed

This project aims to take a more multifaceted approach to regional industrial promotion by combining the industry-specific market data and trend analysis insights held by market research companies with local governments' understanding of regional issues and industrial structures.

During the training, industrial themes tailored to the actual conditions of Fukuchiyama City were considered, while organizing environmental changes surrounding local industries and trends in growth sectors. In this verification, the next-generation agriculture sector was taken up as one subject, based on its relevance to regional issues and future development potential. In the agricultural sector, there are national challenges such as a shortage of successors, an aging population, and the need to address environmental considerations, while new technologies and market expansions such as smart agriculture, plant factories, and biochar are also being observed. By grasping these changes in the external environment together with the current regional situation, this was conceived as an opportunity to deepen the perspective for considering industrial policies suitable for the region. Going forward, while advancing the consideration of such training programs in various local governments, we aim to explore new business models that go beyond just selling market data, and continue to support local governments in promoting industry.