Journal of the Japan Society for Intellectual Production
Online ISSN : 1881-8706
Print ISSN : 1349-6913
ISSN-L : 1349-6913
Volume 13, Issue 2
Displaying 1-19 of 19 articles from this issue
Special Topic: Activity results and future development for Technology licensing organization in Japan
  • Toshikatsu MIKI
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_1-2_5
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    The industrial implementation of academic R&D outputs is of critical importance for national innovation systems. In the 1970s most of Japanese university R&D outputs were announced exclusively in academic societies or published in scientific journals, but in 21st century patent filings became common as for the R&D outputs applicable in industry. Tech-transfer staffs of universities and/or TLOs disclose a part of R&D outputs to firms prior to patent applications for listening to individual firm's responses, and the collected responses are often used for selection of promising licensee candidates and for promotion of the industry-university collaborative R&D projects. This R&D output-push type approach is a basic method of tech-transfer and university-industry alliance formation, but not necessarily almighty effective method. This article discusses business design-based methods for industrial implementation (e.g., in university startups and SMEs) of university R&D outputs.
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  • Megumi TAKATA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_6-2_12
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    This paper studies on the qualitative change of university industry collaboration in Japan for last two decades, through the program change of UNITT Annual Conference. From this study, collaboration activities change to specialized, sophisticated, and diversified one. And it shows the increase of “pro-innovation" activities in universities.
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  • Takanobu MIZUTA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_13-2_20
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Tohoku Techno Arch Co., Ltd. was established as a technology licensing organization (TLO) in 1998 and will mark 20th anniversary in the near future. In this paper, we firstly review our history of marketing-model-based tech transfer activity and its fruits for past 10-15 years. Next, we briefly introduce and overview our novel activity, named as “innovation transfer activity”, which is found by reviewing and analyzing our past cases of both success and failure in commercialization based on universities' technologies. We believe innovation transfer activity is one of the answers for problems or weak points of our previous style of tech transfer and may be effective to make the fruits of industry-university cooperation including commercialization and following innovation highly enlarged in the future.
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  • Kouhei YASUDA, Makoto SUDO
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_21-2_30
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Technology Licensing Organization (TLO) is recognized as a company/organization to support industry-university-government cooperation in Japan.
    Campus Create professes "wide area TLO solving problems for customer by open innovation" as a slogan, and is a TLO performing unusual activity. Particularly, our unique characteristics is to organize the nationwide and international university-industry research collaboration.
    In this report, based on the environment surrounding TLO in the past, we summarize our business model, strong point and future direction. As a characteristic, we (1) run business independently and continuously (2) have high flexibility on activity and various sources of revenues (3) organize the nationwide and international university-industry research collaboration (4) can improve the quality and quantity of technological resources for proposal by expanding cooperation with universities (5) apply a TLO-URA cooperation model, not a technology transfer consistency model (6) have many network of connections with the companies in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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  • Tetsuya AMANO
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_31-2_37
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    After 18 years since the enforcement of the Japanese version of Bye-Doll Act in 1999, the intellectual property belonging to the university has shifted to the stage of developing into large-scale license agreement. On the other hand, Japanese TLO are asking a new strategy of technology transfer. We aim not only to mediate between universities and companies, but also to become a Business Development Organization (BDO), which is a new system of technology transfer, deeply involved in business.
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  • Sumio OHSAWA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_38-2_42
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Shinshu TLO was founded 14 years ago, and the cases of commercialization due to research results of universities have been gradually increasing. Utilizing the research results of the university, it takes a lot of time for a company to commercialize it. Long-term stability of management is essential for technology transfer agencies to earn the trust of companies. I will introduce the contents that Shinshu TLO has done about company management, support for one-stop support to commercialization of enterprises, technology transfer activities in cooperation with other organizations, etc.
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  • Shinji OHNISHI
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_43-2_46
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Kansai Technology Licensing Organization was established in 1998 as a technology transfer company that covers wide regions in Japan. The company went through the deterioration of management and accumulative deficits but improved its management by developing the freedom as an external TLO and the development of its own human resources. Furthermore, Kansai TLO became a subsidiary of Kyoto University in 2016 with its stronger connection with Kyoto University and is currently working both as a TLO specialized for IP office of Kyoto University and as a wide region TLO.
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Special Topic: The risk management of University in Japan for University-Industry collaboration
  • Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Sogo OKAZAKI
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_47-2_55
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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  • Naohiro TAMURA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_56-2_61
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Currently, the Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration becomes active. The universities are expected to manage confidential information appropriately, considering their specific circumstances such as student enrollment. Firstly, they figure out what information assets they have and select the confidential information from them. The construction of the internal information management systems and countermeasure according to the severity of the risks is also important.
    For students who do not make employment contracts, the universities should consider the necessity of their participation into the research activities treating the confidential information and the use of the commitment form and/or the employment contract in terms of the confidential information, with a balance between the merit from the research and the obligation in managing the confidential information such as the limitation of publication of the research results.
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  • Hitoshi SAITO, Kazuhiko YANAI, Toshihiko MARUMOTO, Fumie KAWASHIMA, Ka ...
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_62-2_66
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Since the introduction of COI management right after incorporation, Tohoku University has carried out our original COI management in order to make it an effective system with continual efforts. In this Risk Management Model Project sponsored by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in FY 2015 and 2016, we created Operational Manual after reviewing our current system including our new challenges. In addition, we developed our COI management model, summarized our in-house cases, and put them together as Case Studies along with our research conducted at some institutions in the United States as well as Case Study Meeting that we hold at our university. In this paper, we will present the details of our COI management and the future dissemination of our achievements.
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  • Miyuri KAWASUMI, Kaori IIDA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_67-2_71
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    In this report, we report the investigation results of the state of Conflict of Interest Management Systems, and introduces the management model idea of Conflict of Interest for medical study.
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  • Saeko AKETANI
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_72-2_79
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE BACKGROUND OF MEXT-COMMISSIONED PROJECT, ‘RISK MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY/ACADEMIA/GOVERNMENT COOPERATION', AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO. THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY CONFLICT OF INTEREST MANAGEMENT, IMPLEMENT THE DEVELOPED SYSTEM EFFECTIVELY, AND PROMOTE THE WIDESPREAD AND REGULAR USE OF THE SYSTEM. IN THIS PAPER, UNDERSTANDING OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST MANAGEMENT IN UNITED STATES, RISKS ON CONFLICT OF INTEREST, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CASES ARE DESCRIBED. I HOPE THAT THIS PAPER WILL BE HELPFUL TO THOSE WHO ARE ENGAGED IN CONFLICT OF INTEREST MANAGEMENT IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONS AROUND JAPAN.
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  • Ayako ISHIKAWA, Takeshi MIYABAYASHI, Masahiro KITO
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_80-2_88
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    We have tried to establish a system of confidential information management and export control for the last two years as a way of “prevention management of leakage of technology” in “Industry-academic-government collaborative risk management model project”. We are going to introduce our challenges and our process of improving the prevention management of leakage of technology at Nagoya University.
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Original Articles
  • Seiichi NODA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_89-2_102
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Industry-academia-government collaboration activities achievements, have been built up by the social contribution activities of individual researchers and the organizational activities of the universities. From time after the incorporation of national universities, there was a quantitative progress in joint research and patent application. So far, there are several analysis of industry-university collaboration activities, comprehensive analysis of industry-university collaboration activity results are not found.
    In this paper, as the dependent variable in regression analysis, the industry-university collaboration activity results, and as the independent variables, the characteristics of the university and community is considered. The characteristics of the university consist of the research capabilities and the potential, and the characteristics of the local community consist of the industrial scale and the potential of prefectures where the university is established. We analyzed the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables.
    As a result, industry-university collaboration activities achievements, looking at the whole national university corporation, appears in the characteristics of the whole large-scale university. And the achievements of the large-scale universities can be explained by the research capabilities, the achievements of the medium-sized universities by the industry scale of the prefecture. Therefore, it is considered that political measures for activation of the industry-university collaboration are different from large-scale university and the medium-sized university.
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  • Yasukazu TAMURA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_103-2_111
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    This research analyzed effect factor to industry-academia cooperation with the national university and a local community by a correlative analysis and multi regression analysis. As a result, when prefecture gross production and the growth rate are high as an extrinsic factor, the number, the acceptance amount and the number ratio of the prefecture collaborative research and the consignment study, are also high. The total number and the acceptance amount of the collaborative research and the consignment study are the biggest fluctuation factor of the prefecture number and the prefecture acceptance amount as the inner factor. On the other hand, the number of researchers is a minus factor of the prefecture number ratio, and the number of practical business affair persons in charge of the industry-academia cooperation is a minus factor of the prefecture acceptance frame ratio.
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  • Yoshikazu YAMAGUCHI, Jun FUJIMOTO, Akira YAMAZAKI, Takehiko KOSHIYAMA
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_112-2_126
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    This study aims to quantitatively evaluate the relationship between activities for industry-academia collaboration and influencing factors in universities. The data on activities for industry-academia collaboration, and the data on basic research and university indexes, were collected and analyzed. As a result, it was revealed that the number of joint research per professor was influenced by the number of research papers per professor, the settlement amount of universities per professor, the fields of faculties, the scale of staff for industry-academia collaboration and the number of graduate students per professor, the expense of joint research per professor was influenced by the number of research papers per professor, the number of graduate students per professor, the scale of staff for industry-academia collaboration and the fields of faculties, the number of contract research per professor was influenced by the number of research papers with frequent citations per professor, the fields of faculties, the scale of staff for industry-academia collaboration and the number of graduate students per professor, the expense of contract research per professor was influenced by the number of research papers with frequent citations per professor and the scale of staff for industry-academia collaboration, and the expense of scholarship donations per professor was influenced by the existence of medical departments, the founders, the number of research papers per professor and the settlement amount of universities per professor, in order of strength. The explanatory variables indicating basic research had the strongest influence on the explained variables except the expense of scholarship donations per professor, and the existence of medical departments had the strongest influence and the explanatory variables indicating basic research had the third strongest influence on the expense of scholarship donations per professor. It was also revealed that some explanatory variables indicating university indexes influenced the explanatory variables indicating basic research. To promote activities for industry-academia collaboration, it is imperative to strengthen basic research, and it is also expected to improve university indexes influencing them.
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  • -Analysis from standing points of industry, universities and government-
    Ryo OKUYAMA, Masaharu TSUJIMOTO
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_127-2_134
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    Recently, the drug discovery model in which academic researchers lead the entire process of drug discovery research, from target/lead discovery to compound optimization-so-called "academic drug discovery" -has been highlighted. We examine the background and current status of academic drug discovery from each standpoint of industry, universities, and government. Since 2009, the number of academic drug discovery projects in Japan has rapidly increased. This phenomenon has not been supported by industry, but mainly led by the Japanese government aiming at increasing international competitiveness of Japanese drug discovery and development, and the independent initiatives of universities that are expected to make social contributions. However, the development of many of the drug candidates that were created by academic drug discovery since 2009 has been terminated or suspended without being successfully out-licensed despite that most of the compounds in these projects have been small molecules in the oncology area, which many pharmaceutical companies have focused on. We discuss the issues and directions of academic drug discovery mainly about each role of industry, universities, and government.
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Research Note
  • Masahiro KANAI
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_135-2_143
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    The purpose of this study was to clarify how universities manage their intellectual property rights to prevent themselves from being utilized by “people who don't make products but attempt to assert their rights over patents to obtain exorbitant compensation” as described in the MEXT document.
    On the basis of research in the literature, including a Federal Trade Commission report published in 2011, I analyzed PAE (Patent Assertion Entities) and their activities and problem of a public benefit. In accordance with the results of my analysis and evaluation, I recommend some specific measures that will likely be effective against these problems from the perspectives of intellectual property protection and technology transfer agreement.
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Case research
  • Masato SATO, Yasunori MATSUMOTO, Seigo NASU
    2017 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 2_144-2_154
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2018
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    In this study, the authors firstly focused on the research and development project led by the inter-organizational collaboration between Social Cooperation Division of Kochi University of Technology (KUT) and Kochi Industrial Association (KIA) for the first time. The authors secondly discussed the role of the coordination section as an organization and the role of the coordinators as individuals in producing this new industry-academia-government collaboration. As a result, the authors found that the decision making by organizational collaboration is necessary and effective to promote the industry-academia-government collaboration efficiently. The authors also found that the organizational collaboration secures the equitableness, transparency and objectivity of the individuals' coordination activities. And finally the authors showed that the knowledge sharing and decision making between organizations are important for more effective coordination based on the following elements for industry-academia-government collaboration, which were “Effective information” and “Candid human relations”.
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