2003 Volume 46 Issue 3 Pages 145-153
In 1998 so-called TLO Act was enacted, and since then 27 TLOs have been established all over Japan. In 2001, the Second Term Science and Technology Basic Law was decided at the Cabinet. Currently the Government's expenditure on science and technology researches is affluent compared to those of Europe and U.S. resulting that academic-industry-government collaboration has become active year after year. The author who is a director of JST Innovation Plaza Osaka first describes research subjects of FY 2002 and 2003 at the Plaza and possibility of getting those industrialized. Then he describes actual situation of universities in terms of academic activities and students trend. He tells why academic-industry collaboration did not proceed well so far, and lists how it will be improved such as 1) universities should make flexible the personnel treatment and make comfortable the conditions for doing researches there, 2) to enhance management for the collaboration, 3) to reform the intellectual property system at universities, so on. Lastly he describes Kansai TLO and Osaka TLO in which he is involved, and advanced science and technology collaborative research system being executed at Osaka University.
