Background Information

• October 1980
  New Energy Development Organization established
• October 1988
  Research and development on industrial technology added; name changed to New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
• October 2003
  Incorporated Administrative Agency New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization established under the Act on the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
• April 2015
  Status changed from incorporated administrative agency to national research and development agency

The purpose of NEDO is to enhance industrial technology and promote commercialization by comprehensively performing functions such as: promoting research and development (R&D) carried out using skills from the private sector; promoting R&D carried out by the private sector with regard to technology for non-fossil energies, combustible natural gas, and coal; promoting the technology required for the rational use of energy and technology in mining and industry; and promoting the utilization of such technology in cooperation with the international community; to thereby contribute to ensuring a stable and efficient energy supply in accordance with the changes in the domestic and foreign economic and social environments and to the development of the economy and industry.

Operations relating to technology development management (national projects and practical application promotion activities)

Details of Executives

Details of NEDO's Organization

1,565 (as of April 1, 2025)

Approximately 146.4 billion yen (FY 2025 initial budget)

*In addition to the above, the following programs are organized by funds.

• Moonshot Research and Development Program : 50.4 billion yen
• Research and Development Project of the Enhanced Infrastructures for Post-5G Information and Communication Systems: 2,684 billion yen
• Green Innovation Fund Projects: 2,756.4 billion yen
• Program for Developing Important Economic Security Technologies: 250 billion yen
• Research and Development of Technologies to Promote Biomanufacturing: 270 billion yen
• Deep-Tech Startups Support Program: 100.0 billion yen
• Programs for Specified Semiconductor Production-Related Development: 2, 170.6 billion yen
• Support Project to Secure a Stable Supply of Specified Important Goods: 2, 123.4 billion yen

*As the figures are rounded, the sum of each fund may not match the total.