2022 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 2_42-2_54
This paper considers how many university faculty members are involved in management as corporate officers. Until now, industry-academia collaboration has been related to the fields of science and engineering and biological systems for the purpose of research and development. On the other hand, no empirical research has been conducted on the proportion of university faculty members involved in corporate management. Therefore, in this paper, we investigated how many university faculty members are involved in management at the corporate board of directors.
As a result, 171 university faculty members were involved in 108 of the top 200 companies by sales. By university, 115private universities (67%), 50 national universities (29%), and 5 public universities (3%) were involved in the corporate board of directors. By academic field, humanities and social sciences 129 people (75%) in the field and 32 people (19%) in the science and engineering / biological field were involved in the corporate board of directors in that order. From the above survey results, it was found that many university faculty members have industry-academia collaboration in the form of side business and inauguration as corporate officers, and that faculty members in the humanities and social fields are involved in management and are engaged in industry-academia collaboration.
