This vision is a new initiative, which aims to create an ecosystem that will continuously generate innovation in medical device development. Representatives from industry, government and academia will collaborate to establish a kind of research hospital that will act as a demonstration base for medical devices on the man-made island, Port-Island, where research and development of advanced medical devices will be conducted. In addition, they will also contribute to the further development of the economy of Kobe City by fostering human resources capable of integrating medicine and engineering to accurately grasp the needs of the medical industry and develop new devices, in order to keep young people and provide them with more employment opportunities.

Kochi Prefecture has the highest agricultural output per unit area in Japan. This advantage is due to the establishment of precise cultivation techniques in facility horticulture and marketing strategies that focus on cultivated items with high market competitiveness. In the Kochi Prefecture industry-academia-government collaborative project on Advanced Next-Generation Greenhouse Horticulture Projects by IoP (Internet of Plants) started in 2018, the environment-controlled agriculture established so far has been further evolved. By introducing IoT/AI technology, we try to establish an IoP cloud including not only environmental data, work and market data, but also data on physiology and metabolism such as photosynthesis and evaporation of plants, which was completely in black box until now, by which it can be possible for accurate and convenient farming guidance. During the 10-year project period, our project is aiming at technical development and on-site implementation to establish the IoP cloud, training of core farmers who practice and disseminate IoP greenhouse horticulture, and further enhance the education and research environment along with promoting the reform of local universities. In addition, the IoP Promotion Organization will be launched and operated as an organization to run this project on its own. In this paper, the background of the launch of this project, the mechanism of project management, and the PDCA will be described in detail from the standpoint of the project manager. This work was supported by Cabinet Office grant in aid.

Akita University has established the Joint Research Center for Electric Architecture as a new industry-academia-local government collaboration base by the research and the development. The center will have a test facility that is eminent in the domestic, and the center plans to open the facility for the test of outside agency. The center also has the human resource development department and educates the younger person who will carry the future Akita prefecture and the member of society recurrently. In this report, we will consider the past activities and future directions of the center.

With the adoption of the "Grant for Creation of Local Universities and Regional Industries" by the Cabinet Office, Tokushima Prefecture has been working on "fostering human resources specializing in optical applications" and "research and development of next-generation "light" sources and applied products" through cooperation and collaboration among industry, academia, government, and bank, with "light" as the core of the prefecture's strength.

This paper outlines the circumstances surrounding Tokushima Prefecture and Tokushima University, the background to the selection of next-generation "light," the formulation of the concept of a "creative super-aging society," and the various efforts that have been made since the project was adopted.

As society changes, such as the realization of Society 5.0, and we enter a new era, education is required to "awaken the creators." The author is working on recurrent education for managers of local companies. It leads to a new business when the manager objectively grasps his own idea. It is also expected that the managers will work hard with each other and the local community will change. This paper introduces the recurrent education for core human resources in the regional industry, which is based on the concept of regional innovation. It will be also explained the regional ecosystem that continues to produce the next core human resources, formed through a series of activities that have been carried out for more than 10 years.

The consortia for the "multi-tasked worker" model for the development of human resources in university research administrator (URA) has started from 2014 by the financial support provided by MEXT. This consortia attempts to develop human resources in URA who engages in cross-sector partnership. This educational program is designed by breaking vocational abilities for cross-sector partnership into component. Through this educational work, it is proved that activity of relation adjustment in different sectors contribute the achievement of URA.

The importance of the introduction of recurrent education for adult students has been stressed since the 1980s as having been a positive step. This was promoted by the recent changes in the working environment and the idea of the 100 years of life projected by the increase in life expectancy. This study examines the curriculum, teaching methods, and management of the recurrent education system through a case study of recurrent education programs in tourism organized and supervised by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). We also propose an intermediary system that can manage a collaborative recurrent education between industry and academia.

In recent years, the social needs for re-education of working adults (recurrent education) at higher education institutions have been increasing in anticipation of the 100-year life and the progress of technological innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the creation of various recurrent education programs and the content and operation of existing programs through the introduction of cases related healthcare recurrent education at Otaru University of Commerce Business School (OBS). In the healthcare field, there is a need for staffs who not only have knowledge and skills, specialized in medical and nursing care services, but also have a multifaceted perspective, including knowledge of business administration and management. OBS promotes human resource development and business ecosystem building through offering special topics that positioned a regular course and certificate programs as recurrent education programs for working adults.

Since universities and public research institutes do not have the function of commercialization, it is essential to transfer the research results to industries in order to generate innovation based on their research results. However, research results are implicit and highly sticky, and there is an asymmetry of information between the sender and receiver of technology. Therefore, there is a big barrier to technology transfer and commercialization of the research results produced by universities and public research institutions.

In this study, we analyzed the case studies of industry-university collaborative research that led to commercialization from the viewpoint of proof of concept, and discussed the knowledge sharing that is necessary for successful commercialization of research results. From the case studies, it was confirmed that the industry-university collaborative research promotes the commercialization of research results by "creatively resolving the information asymmetry" that occurs among stakeholders. In addition, it was found that setting research goals with business issues as the starting point and sharing these goals among stakeholders are effective in promoting commercialization. In addition, the resolution of sticky information, It became clear that promoting collaborative research between industry and academia with an awareness of the activities for resolving stickiness as indicated by von Hippel would be effective in promoting technology transfer and contributing to commercialization.

We analyzed collaborative research contract information from 2014 to 2018 fiscal years, in order to clarify the situation of University-Industry research collaborations and the geographical distribution of the partners of Shimane University.

Following results are obtained by comparing with the results of same analysis of 2004-2013FY.

(1) The number and the amount of received research funds of cooperative research projects are increasing.

(2) There is no significant change in the proportion of large companies and small, medium-sized enterprises and organization that is not company, the geographical distribution of the partners of the collaborative research and the amount of research funds received per collaborative research.

(3) The number of collaborative research projects with small and medium-sized enterprises in Shimane prefecture and the amount of received research funds are increasing. This is considered that Shimane University has strengthened its collaboration with companies and organizations in Shimane prefecture through various efforts including COC and COC+ projects.

In Aomori Prefecture, a demonstration project on the aquaculture of salmon trout has been promoted under an industry-academia-government-financial institution collaboration system. In this study, we conducted a market survey targeting general consumers, retailers, and restaurants in Singapore to clarify the issues affecting the market development of salmon trout from Aomori Prefecture. The market survey revealed that salmon trout from Aomori Prefecture could capture Singapore's market with their appealing color, high quality, low fat content, and the safety and security of their Japanese origins, even though Atlantic salmon currently occupies a larger market share in Singapore. Additionally, several issues were noted, such as price setting, quality of product delivered, cost of transportation and processing, and environmental protection, plus the low recognition of Aomori Prefecture. In order to promote the export of salmon trout produced in Aomori Prefecture, it is necessary to strengthen its market production system.

The purpose of this research is to identify the issues for activating international industry-academia collaboration activities in Japan and to present their countermeasures. In this report, based on the current Japanese situation of international industry-academia collaboration, past examples of Hiroshima University were cited as a typical case and analyzed comprehensively. For the analysis, we tried to verify our findings by referring to the result of interviews with stakeholders of the University of Cambridge in the UK, which is said to have developed an innovation ecosystem, and a report by Professor Ann Dowling of the university regarding the strengthening of industry-academia collaboration for the British government wherever appropriate. During this analysis, successful examples based on individual-to-individual relationships with existing mutual trust have been found. On the other hand, successful cases of organization-to-organization such as university vs. company were found to have conducted constant follow-up after events such as seminars. It was also found that a sense of trust was built up through the activities. In order to foster international industry-academia activities in the future, it has been shown important to carry out this constant follow-up and build a sense of trust, and its realization remains to be an issue.

Under Changes in social and industrial structure, industry and academia are expected to be the leaders of innovation and they are actively working to create new innovation using open innovation method. In this study we will introduce the history, collaboration programs, the way of collaboration and successful cases of an organizational collaboration between Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU). And we validate how useful inter-organizational collaboration between industry and academia is, and consider what the effect of "industry-academia full-fledged collaboration" to create innovation is.