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M-BIC 2023 is a contest for students to compete for business plan ideas that utilize automated mobility.

The M-BIC 2023 event has ended.

Concept and Features
– The concept of M-BIC 2023 is to “use automated mobility to make society better and the future more interesting.
– The contest is characterized by the fact that ideas will be evaluated not only from the standpoint of profitability but also from the standpoint of society, such as “whether or not the idea can concretely depict how the lives and experiences of society and customers will be changed.

Contest theme
The contest theme is to “Propose an innovative business plan that utilizes automated mobility 10 years from now.”
– “Automated mobility” refers to objects that can move through public space (roadway/sidewalk/air/sea) without being driven or controlled by humans.
– Typical examples include level 4 or higher self-driving cars, drones, wheelchairs that move on sidewalks, and delivery robots.
– The proposal team is free to make any assumptions about what society will be like 10 years from now, and the proposals that cannot be realized within the current legal system are also acceptable.
– It is expected that the teams will propose new legal systems, changes to existing systems, and issues by backcasting from the ideal future and the future they want to create.

Judging Criteria
– Specific description of a change in society or customer life or experience
– Novelty and inventive step
– Necessity of using automated mobility
– Business feasibility (feasibility, market size, sustainability)
– Depth of analysis (market analysis, technical analysis, social acceptability, organization of legal issues, etc.)

Prizes
– The Grand Prize (200,000 yen) and the Prize for Excellence (100,000 yen) will be awarded as the organizer’s prizes.
– In addition, there will be a special award.

Judgment results
– The Grand Prize: Smart Guiding Dog. (Team: TMI 2 Students).
– Prize for Excellence: Highway bus business utilizing automated and platooning driving. (Team: Busters, Osaka Prefecture University College of Technology.)
– Prize for Excellence: SSTS: Smart Spot Taxi Service. (Team: Seo Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology.)

Proposal details
All proposals can be found on the archive page.