At a Glance

ICSE  NPO International Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Founded 2009 April 10
Founder Takashi Watanabe
Chair Mayako Tsuyuki
Registration Tokyo, Japan

Board of Directors

Mayako Tsuyuki

Chair

Associate Professor, Prefectural University of Hiroshima

Hiroyuki Ishizaki

Director

President, Brainstorm Worldwide, Inc.

Yoshihiko Tsunoda

Director

President, Kokorozashi 7 LLC

Master Program of Innovation for Design and Engineering, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

Hidetoshi Nakano

Director

NPO e-Education

Tadashi Fujimoto

Auditor-Secretary

Editor, Digital Edition/NEWSWITCH, The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun

Highlights in ICSE History

ICSE was founded as a certified non-profit organization to take over achievements and activities of Social Entrepreneurship Program of Graduate School of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, which had been funded for three years by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

 

2007 Nov.  Social Entrepreneurship Program launched at Graduate School of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
2009  Apr.  NPO International Center for Social Entrepreneurship certified by the metropolitan government of Tokyo.
2009  Jul.

 Supporter Organization of Social Entrepreneurship Program Open Seminar "A Fight Against Human Trafficking"

(Guest Speaker: Mr. Mark P. Lagon, Executive Director, Polaris Project)

2010  Feb.

 Partner Organization of Social Entrepreneurship Program International Symposium "Everyone a Changemaker: Social Innovation to Change the World"

(Keynote Speaker: Mr. Bill Drayton, Founder, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public / Guest Speaker: Mr. David Green, CEO, Project Impact)

2010 Mar.  Social Entrepreneurship Program ended
2010    1st ICSE Social Innovation Business Plan Competition
2011 Nov.  2nd ICSE Social Innovation Business Plan Competition
2012 Dec.  3rd ICSE Social Innovation Business Plan Competition
2013  Jun.  ICSE Networking Party for Social Entrepreneurs
2013  Sep.

 ICSE Lecture Meeting on BOP Business

(Guest Speaker: Mr. Hideki Segawa, Ricoh Company Ltd.)

2013    4th ICSE Social Innovation Business Plan Competition
2014  Apr.

 1st ICSE-Gathering

(Guest Speaker: Mr. Kaito Miwa, CEO, NPO e-Education)

2014  Jun.

 2nd ICSE-Gathering

(Guest Speaker: Ms. Yukari Umemoto, AMP MUSIC)

2014  Sep.

 3rd ICSE-Gathering

(Guest Speaker: Prof. Makoto Kimura, Chairman of the Board, NPO CORE:COmmunity Road Empowerment)

2015  Apr.  activities at pause
2017 Jul.  restart (tentative)