抄録
We carried out an enquiry survey toward inventors in the ICT companies, to investigate to what extent "Academic Knowledge" from basic research by universities and public research institutions contribute to ICT companies. I used patent documents to extract inventors. I used the "BizCruncher" database of the Patent Result Co., Ltd, to search for patent documents. 356 samples were extracted from the patent documents and the enquiry sheets were sent to them. The responses of 129 samples with a valid response were analyzed. Then, response rate was 36%. In comparison with the survey toward inventors in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, it was shown that the contribution of basic research to products or sales of ICT companies is less evaluated than that of pharmaceutical or biotech companies. It was also shown that the period of time from introduction of the result of basic research to commercialization m ICT is less than that in pharmaceutical and biotech. In addition, we compared this survey toward inventors with our survey toward managers in ICT. Results of our survey are consistent with common knowledge on ICT and pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
