3. The UNIPLAT Platform
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UNIPLAT is the world's first online platform supporting entrepreneurs and researchers aiming to resolve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Entrepreneurs, researchers, and supporters from around the world (196 countries) can meet online to create technologies and projects to improve our world.
Specifically, the organization targets investors, researchers, students, companies, public organizations, etc., and has seven objectives.
Provide a forum for the presentation of technology (platforms and events)
The platform is designed to protect the rights of the technology and to share it within the platform.
Visualization of the technology presented.
Fair evaluation of the technology (technological domain and superiority)
will be conducted as necessary. Based on the results of the evaluation of the technology, we will provide the strength to increase the potential of the technology (providing combinations, grouping, and joint research).
Provide support, including financial and marketing cooperation, by presenting the above to investors, allied companies, and academic institutions.
In addition to the above, we will provide support for business exchanges and overseas expansion of companies.
UNIPLAT has five main functions to protect and certify important information, including:
research results
prevent information theft
unauthorised secondary use
promote active information exchange among researchers
providing means to legitimately evaluate research
1) UNIPLAT My Lab
Through the UNIPLAT My Lab module, users can browse information on researchers and entrepreneurs conducting all research and projects related to the SDGs individually. After registration, companies, universities, and foundations are all accessible, making it convenient for researchers and entrepreneurs to evaluate research reasonably and provide support.
Through UNIPLAT's e-Tip, researchers and entrepreneurs can receive crypto-assets as donations for posted content as a fair incentive without facing the risk of facing any adverse conditions of their respective country's economic policy or condition. Our crypto asset is used to fund research, and users can freely convert this asset into other crypto assets or fiat currency.
UNIPLAT Rating is a function that uses AI to automatically evaluate a researcher's credit eligibility from various angles and display it as a score. Rating factors are democratically adjusted each year, given cultural and economic backgrounds.
We strive to improve the financial opportunities for researchers to gain funding. Many researchers experience great difficulty submitting peer-reviewed papers due to economical and geographical constraints or lack of peer-reviewed articles.
Pre-IP is an abbreviation for "Pre-Intellectual Property," a term coined by UNIPLAT to refer to intellectual property (IP) rights in the pre-solicitation or idea stage.
We will utilize blockchain technology to certify disclosed information to a third party. Disclosed information can be authenticated as the information even before the public application and the acquisition of rights. As a result, mitigate the theft of data and unauthorized secondary use. In addition, blockchain technology significantly streamlines the third-party certification process, allowing a more time-efficient and financially effective application process. For further details, please refer to the table here below.
5) Facilitator Account
Suppose a research institution or company registers as a corporation with UNIPLAT as a facilitator account. In that case, researchers from those institutions will also be able to use UNIPLAT's services. When an institution receives donations, it can decide the income distribution between the registrar and the researcher.
Challenges
Current Situation
UNIPLAT Solution
Language Communication Barrier
Translation tools exist, but they are not real-time or accurate enough.
Multilingual Simultaneous Interpretation Live Streaming
Difficult to understand credit eligibility of researchers and entrepreneurs
The number of citations of publications is the primary evaluation criteria, and the creditworthiness of researchers in developing countries is often not fairly evaluated.
AI-based quantification of credit eligibility (credit rating)
Difficult to cover research expenses
Few ways to raise funds for researchers.
Donation function for content contributed by researchers and entrepreneurs.
Patent application costs are high/time-consuming
The cost of a patent application is a considerable hurdle for researchers in developing countries.
Distributed authentication is carried out through blockchain technology, and a Pre-IP certificate is issued.
Multilingual simultaneous speed translation live streaming distribution
Within the UNIPLAT platform, users can select any language for video content, and automatic subtitles are displayed in the desired language. This functionality uses a sophisticated translation service. Currently, the service is already available in 10 languages. In the future, we aim to support all worldwide languages.
Credibility quantification using AI (credit rating)
Our algorithms are constantly developing using data such as the number of views and comments to enable us to evaluate the results. We believe that by utilizing AI, we can calculate scores with greater fairness.
Donations for content posted by researchers and entrepreneurs
Users can donate using the cryptocurrency for the content they have contributed. The donations received vary greatly depending on the research content and other factors. In the future, we are considering introducing a system where donations are collected in legal tender.
Decentralized authentication
Issuing and acquiring a pre-IP certificate are all performed through blockchain technology. We can save time through Ethereum smart contract technology and, as a result, reduce the costs compared to a typical patent application.
Investor Relations
The UPT used in UNIPLAT has three functions: to measure the value of technological innovation, to create value in technology, and to contribute to society through technology; to exchange value; and to store value.
It is an unprecedented blockchain token with very high actual demand. In the future, it will be linked to all technologies.
Sources of value
value as legal tender, credit value, benefit value
scarcity, processability, historical value
utility, innovation
Methods of evaluating value
market price, credit value
market price, investment value
utility, social contribution
Uses
purchase of goods and services, payment
ornaments, currency, investment, etc.
development, manufacture, provision of products and services, etc.
Future changes in the value of money, gold, and technology are expected to be as follows.
Money
The value of money as legal tender is expected to remain in constant demand. However, the credit value may fluctuate due to instability in the financial system and other factors. The value of benefits may decline due to the spread of electronic money and virtual currencies.
Gold
Gold is expected to maintain a certain level of demand in the future due to its scarcity and historical value. However, the value of investments may fluctuate due to changes in the price of gold and competition from other investments.
Technology
The value of technology is expected to increase further in the future as technological innovation continues to advance. The value of technology will be evaluated according to its utility and contribution to society. It is therefore the most credible value.
Background and motivation
As of July 2023, of UNIPLAT's total of 80 business partners, 58 are overseas. Among these organizations, we have found that many of the startup support organizations, accelerators, and VC firms in each region want to expand their business to Japan as a destination in the Asian region.
UNIPLAT is operated by UNIFY PLATFORM, a Swiss company, and its main management team, business partners, and UNIPLAT members are predominantly Japanese, and the main management team and business partners are familiar with the Japanese market. UNIPLAT's Japanese office is located in a public facility in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and we believe that UNIPLAT can support companies and startups from abroad in terms of both software and hardware.
Objective
To activate economic exchange between Japan and other countries and to raise the international profile of the Japanese economy by attracting promising foreign companies and start-ups through UNIPLAT.
Contents of services provided
Step 1: Representative office service (Research activities only) Call center operations, secretarial services →Offices: Sapporo, Tokyo, Kawasaki, (Tokushima, Fukuoka) Step 2: Incorporation, accounting and legal advisory services Step 3: establishment of physical offices, BPO service Step 4: sales and promotion support service(market research, LP creation, etc.) Step 5: investment and financing support by local AC and VC
Japan Start Up Tool BoX Project Partners
We can introduce you to investors from around the world, including the Silicon Valley Investment Club ( group of Silicon Valley investors who have invested in many unicorn companies listed on NASDAQ. This will help entrepreneurs and researchers to accelerate the realization of their breakthrough ideas.
