This is an industry-academia collaboration program in which universities and others take the lead in formulating a vision for the future society (vision of the center), promoting research and development to realize the vision, and forming an independent center of industry-academia-government co-creation that will continuously produce results even after the project is completed. The program is called "COI-NEXT" because of its institutional design based on the "vision-driven, back-casting R&D" concept of the Center of Innovation (COI) program, one of JST's existing center-forming programs.