Analysis of the Factors Influencing Joint Research of National, Public and Private Universities with Regional Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the factors influencing universities' joint research with regional small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The data on universities' joint research, university indices showing universities' features and activities, and regional indices showing public support, economic power and SMEs, were collected and analyzed. As a result, the strength of each influencing factor became clear by correlation analysis. Moreover, multiple regression models that explain the number of joint research per researcher and the received amount of joint research per researcher of national universities, public universities and private universities using universities' influencing factors and regional influencing factors, were created. Comparing universities' influencing factors and regional influencing factors, universities' factors > regional factors in national universities, universities' factors ≪ regional factors in public universities, and universities' factors ≫ regional factors in private universities were understood.