2006 Volume 75 Issue 1 Pages 76-79
The present situation and possibility of organization support type collaboration operation, which was originally an industry-university collaborative business in Kyushu University, is considered in detail. This operation has been improved by solving problems by appropriate collaboration between the industry and the university over two years. As a result of such an improvement, this operation has been adopted by 23 companies. Also, this operation has shown a good performance in producing patents and in streamlining objectives between the company and the university in comparison with a conventional operation.