A Comparative Study on Industry-Academia Collaboration Status from Korea and Japan

— Using Statistical Data of MEXT in Japan and NRF in Korea —

Abstract

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) was ranked in top 10 of "The Most Innovative Universities Ranking 2016" by Reuters, the only ranked university outside of the United States. We are thinking that universities in Korea have been contributing to industry through industry-academia collaboration. Because the Reuters rankings are based on the number of research papers written in collaboration with companies and the number of patents awarded. Therefore, we tried to compare the fundamental status in the past 5 years on industry-academia collaboration from Korea and Japan.

This study has clarified that the number of cooperative research agreements and budget had already surpassed Japan's, even though Korea faced institutional delay on industry-academia collaboration and economic scale handicap relative to Japan. In particular, investments from the government in Korea were much larger than those of Japan, and this difference had been increasing annually. And this study has also clarified that the amount of technology transfer income of universities in Korea had already exceeded Japan.