Media coverage, awards and programs

Chunichi Shimbun · 2025

海がない長浜でも新鮮なカキができる？ 長浜バイオ大教授の新興企業、短期肥育の実証設備完成

Reports the completion of a demonstration facility for short-term oyster fattening (including two tanks) at the Nagahama wholesale market.

Chunichi Shimbun

微細藻類でカキを大ぶりに 長浜バイオ大発「ノベルジェン」独自技術応用で肥育事業に乗り出す

Reports Novelgen’s entry into oyster fattening using its proprietary technology for growing microalgae.

Kyoto Shimbun · 2025

「海なし県」でカキを育てる研究、滋賀でスタートアップが実証設備 「世界企業へ」意欲は満々

Covers the oyster-fattening demonstration facility in landlocked Shiga and the company’s ambitions for overseas exports.

Minato Shimbun (fisheries trade daily) · 2025

カキの短期肥育実証開始/スタートアップのノベルジェン、微細藻類技術活用

Fisheries trade press coverage of the start of short-term oyster fattening trials using microalgae.

Shiga Yukan

微細藻類でカキを短期肥育

Reports the facility unveiling and the MAFF subsidy (up to ¥1.247 billion through March 2028).

Shiga Yukan

ノベルジェン社 微細藻類でカキ短期肥育へ

Covers the oyster short-term fattening initiative.

Mainichi Shimbun (Shiga edition) · 2024

【毎日新聞(滋賀版)】「株式会社ノベルジェン」を紹介する記事が掲載されました

Describes how the company began developing and testing fattening technology in 2023 in response to shrinking oyster meat (notice published by the Shiga Industrial Support Center).

Biwako Broadcasting (BBC)

カキを食べてCO2削減？株式会社ノベルジェン（長浜市）

TV feature on growing oysters with microalgae and the CO₂-reduction rationale of algae.

Yoshoku Business (Midori Shobo) · 2025

特集「微細藻類入門」— 微細藻類のジーンバンク事業研究（小倉淳）

CEO Atsushi Ogura contributed to a feature in an aquaculture trade magazine (November 2025 issue).

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology · 2024

ノベルジェンの挑戦 国大型基金プロジェクト発表

Announces selection for MAFF’s SME Innovation Promotion Program (Phase 3 fund).

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology · 2025

ノベルジェンが牡蠣の短期肥育システムを本格稼働 ー 微細藻類技術で日本産カキの未来を拓く

Reports that the oyster short-term fattening demonstration system was completed and put into full operation.

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology · 2025

株式会社ノベルジェンが「THE BLUEKEEPERS AWARD 2025」“LOCAL ENGAGEMENT賞”を受賞 -週刊東洋経済「すごいベンチャー100」にも選出-

Reports the award and the selection for Toyo Keizai’s “100 Amazing Ventures”.

NEDO / METI · 2023

株式会社ノベルジェン / Novelgen Co.,Ltd. - 第5回カーボンリサイクル産学官国際会議2023

Exhibitor video at the international conference introducing CO₂ fixation and water-treatment functions of microalgae.

Forbes JAPAN × OCEANS · 2025

THE BLUEKEEPERS AWARD 2025

Ocean award held at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai (organised by ZERI JAPAN, co-hosted by Forbes JAPAN and OCEANS).