Japan is the most aged society. The senior market is continuing to expand. It is important to live better three stages of old age for successful aging. It is necessary that the society will solve the five problems with the elderly. People are expecting "the innovation to contribute to the successful aging of the people" by industry-university cooperation.

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I have stated promising prospective and necessity of an accurate structure in the area of "medical, nursing care" field, and cooperation I experienced with care-related-corporations, as a teacher in University, from a standpoint of "learning". In addition, I introduced an "Intellectual Production", which I currently work with universities, as an industrialist, from a standpoint of "producing".

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The decreasing birthrate and the aging society of our country makes national financial default occur and the whole society collapse down at the same time. The average life span of Male is 79.55 years old and of Female is 86.30, on the other hand, the healthy life expectancy of Male is 70.42 and of Female is 73.62. Extending healthy life expectancy close to average life span by disease prevention, health promotion and preventive care can reduce social security benefits such as medical expenses and care costs drastically. I will introduce industry-academia collaboration business to realize it.

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It is important for government policy in Japan to promote partnerships between SMEs and universities, and the number of such partnerships has been increasing recently. However the number of SMEs having partnerships with universities has not been estimated, and the proportions of such SMEs to the total SMEs estimated in previous research are various. This research conducted statistical analysis and a survey by questionnaire focusing on joint research, and estimated the number of SMEs which conduct joint research with universities was 2.4 thousand, which was about 25% of the total number of SMEs conducting R&D. Such collaborative SMEs has been increasing by about 190 per year on average recently, including firms initiating R&D activities for the first time when participating in joint research with universities. Moreover, we examined future measures to promote joint research between SMEs and universities.

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This system has been developed for evaluating of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) especially developing new products and/or new businesses. The system has been composed of three steps.
Step 1, Marketability was evaluated for R&D products and/or businesses.
Step 2, The Company's R&D ability was divided into 3 factors of Humanity, Money and R&D product, whose indexes were linearly weighted by AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process). The 16 SMEs whose achievements were well grasped have been evaluated with the reference tables.
Step 3, The business model regarding to the new R&D products and/or businesses would be evaluated by DCF (Discounted Cash Flow).
After Lehman shock, some troubles, such as bankruptcy, M&A, happened to 6 enterprises of the referenced 16 SMEs. As the result of reconsidering 3 factor's weight, we could get the numbers for Humanity:0.31, Money:0.28, R&D products:0.41(Quality of the Product:0.25, Business feasibility for the product:0.75).

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The fundamental Law of Education (2006) defined social contribution as the third mission of Japanese universities, after education and research. Since then, university-industry collaboration including joint research and licensing of intellectual property rights has been growing in Japan. University-industry collaboration provides universities with benefits such as considerations for research fund and license fee.
Even now, education and research -the primary functions of universities- still determine the real value of universities. Therefore, the university-industry collaboration should not adversely affect these functions.
Here, by focusing on joint research agreement, I review the terms that should be considered to enable universities to safeguard their academic freedom after the completion of university-industry collaboration.

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This paper is to clarify how university-industry collaboration differs by technology fields in relation to university research resources in Japan, after analyzing university research resources by technology fields. The technology fields studied were the four priority fields designated by the Second and the Third Science and Technology Basic Plans. Life science field occupied the largest shares in collaborative research, contract research and university spin-offs, since this field occupied the largest shares in R&D expenditure and patent application. Nanotechnology/material science field showed the second largest shares in patent application and R&D expenditure; and occupied the second largest shares in collaborative research and contract research. Environmental science showed the third largest share in contract research, though it occupied only small shares in R&D expenditure and patent application. Information and communication technology (ICT) field showed the third largest shares in R&D expenditure and patent application and the second largest share in university spin-offs. Since these four technology fields are important in university-industry collaboration compared to their R&D expenditure in the university sector, it is worthwhile for the government to invest in university R&D in these four technology fields. This is especially true for environmental science.

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A change of the average research expenses which is paid to University by a cooperator is investigated in order to estimate activity of cooperative research between a national university and a company. The number of cooperative researches and the amount of the research expenses paid by a cooperator are examined for 28 national universities from 2004FY to 2012FY. The average research expenses of each university are leveling off or slightly decreasing through these nine years (2004FY-2012FY). The average research expenses of large universities are about 2-4 million yen. Those of medium universities and small universities are about 1-2.5 million yen and 0.5-2 million yen in each. The average research expense is decreasing depend on the scale of a university. There is a linear correlation between average research expense and number of teacher of a university. Further research is needed in order to clarify the influence factor on the average research expense of cooperative research.

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