Activities and industry-academia-government collaboration towards building a hydrogen energy society at University of Yamanashi

Abstract

University of Yamanashi has been promoting research on fuel cells since the 1960s, and has been researching a wide range of themes related to fuel cells, such as alloy catalysts, catalyst supports, electrolytes, separators and coating methods for catalyst inks. In order to transfer these research results to regional companies to promote new hydrogen and fuel cell related industries, a three-party agreement was signed between Yamanashi Prefecture and the Yamanashi Industry Support Organization. Based on the agreement, University of Yamanashi has been supporting regional companies. This presentation introduces examples of activities related to new product development support utilizing the research results of the university and human resource development of regional companies.