COMMERCIALIZATION OF NATIONAL PROJECTS CENTERED ON LASER INFRASTRUCTURE MEASUREMENT

Abstract

This paper describes a societal implementation of national projects by our two research projects: “R&D of Laser Directive Noncontact Diagnosis System for Maintaining Degraded Infrastructures” and “Development on skill transfer of professional engineers and advanced scanning devices in infrastructure management”, parts of Cross-ministerial Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) managed by the Cabinet office of Japan. Main challenge of societal implementation of these national projects is to commercialize project achievements by research institutions with insufficient experience of business planning. Through our several years activities in a startup company including analyses of the target business field and the owned technology, we found that business strategy is important to establish equal partnership with the existing major companies for market penetration, and neutral business planners play an important role to coordinate all institutes’ interests.