Introduction of Value Creation activities of The Tama Shinkin Bank and consideration of the importance of a collaboration among industry, academia, government and financial institutions

Abstract

What factor is important to make a success of the collaboration between SMEs and Universities? It is the existence of coordinators that have negotiation skill to fill the gap of their culture and opinion, to win their confidence and to build a business.
Tama Shinkin Bank send workers as an important personnel support for Universities to coordinate SMEs' needs and Universities' research seeds. The coordinator's role and activity is expected to be effective for the collaboration after this. Universities that have cooperation agreement with banks should accept loan workers as the coordinators.
In future the collaboration should be tried to coordinate with not only the school of science and engineering but also the school of humanities for the social contribution to citizen.