Challenges to Strategic Joint R&D Contracts

Abstract

In order to strengthen joint research through industry-academia-government collaboration, it is important to conduct strategic and flexible contract negotiations from the perspective of prioritizing the use of research results.

To that end, it is useful to utilize the "Sakura Tool".

Furthermore, in contract negotiations, considering to the recent international data hegemony, it is always necessary to keep in mind the followings:

1) to manage not only intellectual property rights such as patent rights, but also trade secrets and data that are "new information goods",

2) in case of cooperation with foreign companies, it may lead to an increase in export control risk at universities, etc., depending on the form of the contract, and

3) the guidelines for government-consigned research specify precautions for the research.