Abstract
The aim of this study is to review typical previous domestic and foreign papers regarding University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) of the last 20 years, and to extract suggestions for the future research of UIC. As a result of the study, the previous works were able to be classified into three categories. The first category is from the point of view of innovation, where UIC is the driving force of knowledge and/or technology transfer through such activities as joint research. The second concerns the impact of UIC on the research carried out by enterprises and universities. The third category is an approach from the Sociology of Science concerning the research productivity of UIC from the aspect of creating new knowledge through UIC activities. For the last ten years, the submitted scholarly papers concerning UIC in Japan have been relatively low compared to other countries including developing countries. It is extremely important that researchers in different fields should superstruct a new cross-sectional science field for UIC.
