2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 2_25-2_32
More than 20 years have passed since the organizations for university-industry collaborations, so-called, centers for cooperative research that have a role as the bridge between the university and industrial world, have been established in Japanese national universities. The situations of circumstances in which Japanese national universities finds itself, have changed due to the incorporation of national universities and so on. At the same time, the roles of the organizations for university-industry collaborations have changed and therefore the organizations have been reconstituted actively in recent years. In this paper, the transitions of the organizations for university-industry collaborations are investigated and analyzed based on the web information. In addition, the formation of the organization to proceed is discussed. As a result, the following characteristics were revealed. The names of centers for cooperative research have changed and more than 50 percent of the organizations for university-industry collaborations have been reconstituted. The center for cooperative research has been integrated with the intellectual property office and the transitions of the framework, name, and role have been confirmed in the majority of cases.
