Abstract
For the purpose of clarification of the structure of University-Industry collaboration activities in local area of Japan, the joint researches in industry-university cooperation done by researchers at Oita University in 2007 have been analyzed in this article. As a result, it turned out that the partners of joint researches in Oita prefecture are mainly SMEs. In these cases, most of the subjects of the researches in these projects are difficult to be related to the academic researches performed on university researcher's own terms in the university laboratory. In contrast, the partners of the joint researches of Oita University located at the outside of Oita prefecture are mainly big Japanese companies. In this situation, most of the subjects of the studies apparently have relation to the academic theme.
Based on the analyses, the general restriction conditions to promote the partnership between the regional SME and university are proposed in the article.
