Abstract
Based on the hypothesis that there is correlative relationship between research evaluation and industry-academia collaboration when the both are implemented effectively, I analyzed the correlation between research unit evaluations and representative industry-academia collaboration activities in AIST. It is revealed that there is correlation (0.2≤|R|<0.4, weak correlation, 5% significance level) between research project evaluation scores and the number of joint researches and the number of foreign patent applications, and there is little correlation (0.0≤|R|<0.2) or negative correlation between the scores and the other activities (the number of technical consultations, the amount of outside fund, the share of outside fund, the number of technical trainees, the number of guest researchers, the number of domestic patent applications and the number of venture company establishment). Although limited, it is examined that there is correlative relationship between research unit evaluations and industry-academia collaboration activities. In the future, it will be important to analyze the correlation between research evaluations based on research outcome and industry-academia collaboration activities, and study what they should be.
