Abstract
This study is the research about these 5 years change regarding the collaboration between universities and financial institutions in Japan. In these years, the financial institutions are expected to play the bridge role in the collaboration between industry and academia. But the environment around regional financial institutions in Japan has been changing greatly in these 5 years, and we can be thinking this big change has influenced the collaboration between universities and financial institutions. So we had gathered information by the questionnaires survey in 2014 and compared with the survey in 2009.
Our findings as follows;
We could confirm that most of national universities with the liaison sectors, just like collaborative research centers, and regional financial institutions in Japan were making close relationship each other in 2009, and the high percentage of relationship was still keeping in 2014. And national universities showed the tendency that they focused their interest to liaison activity in these 5 years.
And the change of the environment around regional financial institutions had especially influenced the regional bank's attitude. Regional banks showed the tendency that they wanted some concrete results from the collaborations, for example "customer satisfaction", "the contribution for getting deposit and lending" and "bankers skill up".
