About

NICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center (hereinafter referred to as "the Center") has been promoting the construction and operation of NICT Integrated Testbed as a site for providing a technology verification and demonstration environment that looks ahead from research and development to social implementation in the field of information and communication technology. In the sixth mid-to-long-term plan period (from FY2026), under the new information and communication technology strategy, it is becoming increasingly important for the Center to serve as a core and connecting point for industry-academia-government collaboration and to support innovation creation in private companies and other organizations.

The Center will develop the “B5G Innovation Testbed,” which allows integrated verification from networks to services in the Beyond 5G era. With the aim of implementing technologies originating in Japan into society, we aim to create a testbed where diverse stakeholders, both "senders" and "receivers" of technology, can gather, bring together, use, combine, and develop various technologies to co-create innovation.

Furthermore, we will work to form communities that promote the social implementation of technology and collaborate with funding sources (such as NICT Innovative ICT Fund Projects and JST CRONOS Program).