Abstract
In order to provide the fruits of university research results to the society effectively and efficiently, it is important to establish collaborative research projects between universities and industries in a very early stage. In this paper, we focused on the process of creating collaborative researches between universities and industries, and analyzed its mechanism by using the data on the industry-university matching program at the University of Tokyo called Proprius21. We found out that Proprius21 program has been successful in increasing the collaborative researches at the University of Tokyo in the past five years. Proprius21 is especially effective in ICT related industries while it is not so effective in a life science field which produces most collaborative researches in general. From the analysis of R&D characteristics of various firms, we found out that effectiveness of industry-university matching program depends on the research field and that the analysis of firm's R&D characteristics is useful in selecting target firms for collaborative researches.
