Abstract
Over the last 16 years the New Industries Research Group of the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA) has been bringing together technological experts from different companies for researching and conceiving on advanced technology-using business / service.
This paper presents the results of their collaboration beyond organizations boundaries and the effect to present state of technology and businesses through authors’ reflection on their own activities. The paper also shows some discussions and insights for technological experts’ collaboration from a perspective of MOT (management of technology) approaches.
