-Customer industry/scale-

Transportation industry (large enterprise)

-Customer needs/issues-

• Confirming the license required for commercialization
• Making a plan for commercialization using local human resources
• Utilizing official support for overseas business expansion

-Support contents-

• Business model planning that can exert synergistic effects with existing businesses
• Implementation plan for local market research, license approval, acquisition, and demonstrations, etc.
• Applying for overseas business expansion support scheme by a governmental agency

-Support period-

About 10 months

-Support results-

• Adopted by the overseas business expansion support scheme
• Future field surveys and demonstration activities will be implemented under the support of MSC Partners Inc.

Report

In recent years, drones have rapidly become popular all over the world, and have become widely used in industrial applications such as photography, surveying, and logistics.

However, if the technology and products that are innovative and directly connected to the solution of social issues are not operated by local people in the medium and long term, they are not sufficient as infrastructure to support daily life.

Utilizing customer’s experience, know-how, and technology to operate drones so that local people can handle them easily. Bringing back the experience and lessons gained locally to Japan to utilize them for further business expansion. Considering the above-mentioned medium-to long-term perspectives, we supported the research and activity planning of the drone logistics business.