抄録
The mechanisms and implications of two phenomena concerning the university and the professionals are discussed : (i) emergence of a new kind of professionals responsible for collaboration with the industry beyond the capacity of traditional teaching and office staff, and (ii) creation of new graduate schools for legal and business professionals. Review of their present circumstances and analysis of their growth processes show that both the phenomena are necessity in strengthening social linkage of the modern universities. These trends are significant in that they prepare a road to formation of organizations of the professionals as a social basis for knowledge production, whose absence has been an important weakness of the traditional Japanese society dominated by individual-corporation relationship based on lifelong employment.
