Helping Global Longevity Innovation
Succeed in Japan
Living Best connects promising global ventures with the evidence, relationships, partners and capital needed to turn Japan opportunity into real-world implementation.
HOW LIVING BEST HELPS
From Global Innovation to Real-World Impact
Japan is already living the demographic future that many other countries will soon face.
Living Best brings together global innovation, human insight and trusted relationships to help promising solutions move toward real-world use.
Identify What Matters
Citizens, professionals and experts help us understand real needs and where innovation can make a difference.
Find Promising Solutions
We connect with ventures and innovators from around the world addressing ageing, wellbeing and human-centred challenges.
Build the Right Pathway
We connect evidence, partners, investors and opportunities to help strong ideas progress in Japan.
Ecosystem Partners
WORKING TOGETHER ACROSS THE GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM
Living Best works with organisations around the world that share our interest in ageing, wellbeing and human-centred innovation.
Our ecosystem includes governments, universities, accelerators, investors, non-profits, research organisations, corporations and innovation networks.
Partners may contribute expertise, introductions, innovation pipelines, research capability, community access or regional connections.
These relationships are collaborative and shaped around shared goals.
Japan Is Where the Future Is Happening Now
Japan is already experiencing demographic changes that many other countries will face in the years ahead. That creates an urgent need for better solutions across health, care, mobility, housing, work and everyday life.
What works in Japan today can help shape how the world ages tomorrow.
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Health and Care
Better ways to support prevention, healthy ageing, healthcare and care delivery. -
Housing and Community
Better places to live, connect and participate throughout longer lives. -
Mobility and Independence
Solutions that help people remain active, mobile and independent. -
Work and Financial Wellbeing
New approaches to longer working lives, caregiving and financial security.
THE LIVING CITY MODEL
A City Begins with People, Not Technology
Living City is Living Best’s model for connecting community needs with innovation and real-world action.
Citizens and professionals help shape the process from the beginning.
Identify What Matters
Understand the needs and priorities that affect real lives.
Shape What Gets Tested
Bring community insight into the selection and evaluation of promising innovations.
Turn Evidence into Action
Help shape how successful solutions move toward real-world use.
Technology is not simply introduced to a community.
It is selected, tested and shaped with the community.
Join Our Global Professional Community
Share Your Expertise. Help Shape the Future of Ageing.
The Living Best Professional Group is a free global community for people working across ageing, health, care, innovation, research, policy and investment.
Members can contribute expertise, participate in selected activities and receive insights from Living Best’s work.
FOR INVESTORS
Discover Ventures with Japan Potential
Living Best identifies promising global longevity ventures and helps them build evidence, relationships and traction in Japan.
Investors can connect with selected companies demonstrating credible market potential and progress toward real-world implementation.
Selected Opportunities
Discover ventures that Living Best has validated have credible relevance and potential in Japan.
Japan Market Insight
Understand market needs, customer relevance, adoption barriers and the evidence being developed locally.
Real Progress
Follow how selected ventures progress toward relationships, pilots, funding and implementation.
FOR INNOVATORS
Enter Japan with Living Best
Japan offers sophisticated users, major corporate and public-sector partners, global credibility and one of the world’s most important markets for longevity innovation.
But successful entry requires more than a strong product.
Living Best helps selected global ventures validate their Japan opportunity, build trusted local relationships and progress toward implementation.
1. Assess
Determine whether you have a credible opportunity in Japan.
2. Showcase
Test your proposition with relevant stakeholders.
3. Accelerate
Build trusted relationships and partner opportunities.
4. Implement
Progress toward pilots, funding and commercial adoption.
5. Scale
Use evidence and partnerships to pursue wider opportunities.
The pathway is selective and designed for ventures with a credible Japan opportunity and the ability to act on partner and pilot opportunities.