Abstract
Until now there has been insufficient examination into the idea that university research result patenting will lead to investment incentives for industries to put those research results to use. In this research, a survey based on a questionnaire given to individuals involved in the industrial side of industry-university collaboration activities has been conducted concering how the existence of the patent applications of universities is recognized in joint research and development. The results show that when industries engage in joint research and development with a university, they do no not require the university to fill out a patent application for the technology that is the target of the joint research. Pharmaceutical industries were no exception to this finding. In addition, when it comes to the handling of joint research results, there are many individuals of the opinion that intellectual property rights of the results should be handed over to the industrial side, which is in a better position to make use of them. However, with respect to the conditions for transfer of the rights, mutual understandings among the parties concerned have not yet been estabilished.
