Change in university-industry co-authorship relations in Japan with globalization of academic research

Abstract

Our results based on analyses of co-authorship relations of academic publications between university and industry collaborations have shown that relations between university and industry are getting weaker, while collaborations with overseas are becoming stronger in Japan. This suggests that without taking account of collaborations with overseas it is no even more possible to explain national knowledge producing systems. In this study, we break down foreign sector into three regions of Americans, Asian areas and EU, to make further investigations on the formation of international research networks and time series changes of university-industry collaborations in Japan.