Dream-based social innovation

The event by the name of Everyone's Dream Award (Minna-no-yume Award in Japanese) started in 2010 in Japan and the competition for dream-based social innovation was executed at the event almost every year. The events had been executed 5 times so far. Several hundred organizations applied for the competition at every event and 31 organizations in total were selected as finalists and made presentations in the big facilities which can accommodate several thousand people. Among 31 organizations, dreams based on deep technologies were selected for this research. Among the dreams based on deep technologies, the organization which won the best prize was selected from each event. Those organizations include WHILL from Everyone's Dream Award 3 held in January, 2013, Ory Laboratory from Everyone's Dream Award 4 held in February, 2014 and Astroscale from Everyone's Dream Award 5 held in February, 2015 and how these dreams had been coming true was investigated through the case studies. It was found that Everyone's Dream Award stimulated the other organizations to establish the eco-system for social innovation in Japan and that Everyone's Dream Award was playing a role of an "accelerator for social innovation" in the eco-system in Japan.