The Hokkaido branch of the Japan Society for Intellectual Production was established in 2009 and has been contributing to the promotion of industry-academia-government-finance collaboration by planning and organizing various events. In 2018, the branch launched a website and has been making efforts to disseminate information. In February 2020, the Hokkaido branch was one of the first to establish a page dedicated to information on how to respond to the spread of the new coronavirus on risk management. In FY2022, the branch began holding the “Liaison Communication Seminars” on an ongoing basis. The Hokkaido branch hopes to make further contributions to the promotion of industry-academia collaboration in Hokkaido by holding these events and cooperating with related organizations and groups.

This report describes the background of the establishment of the Tohoku-Kita-Kanto Branch of the Japan Society for Inteleectual Production, and after interviewing chapter members about their opinions, it summarizes the objectives of the branch's activities at that time and the various activities that have been carried out.

Efforts to revitalize the activities of the branch by collaborating with other branch, societies, and other organizations will be described. However, after the Corona disaster, there are many issues to be addressed, such as revitalization of members communication and counter measures against the decrease in the number of members. New ways of conducting branch activities will be considered.

The Chubu and Hokuriku Chapters were established in 2021. However, due to the impact of the new corona, it has not yet reached full-scale activities. The Chubu and Hokuriku regions have various features and diversity. We would like to consider future activities.

The background of the establishment and the status of the activities of the Kansai-Chu-Shikoku branch (B150) which was established in 2009 was described. The Kansai-Chu-Shikoku branch hosts Meeting for Research and Case study Presentation once a year. At this meeting, the members of the branch mainly present research results and cases of their activities. In addition, not only our society members, but also those who are in charge of Industry - Academia collaboration activities in the relevant area can make presentations at this meeting, for creating an opportunity to join our society. The content of the presentations in this meeting has expanded from industry-academia collaboration to intellectual property, regional collaboration, education, etc., and it can be seen that the diversification of industry-academia collaboration is progressing. In the future, various trials will be required in the activities of this branch.

In this paper, the background of the establishment of the Kyushu branch, which started its activities in 2008, the status of its activities, and issues are described. The main activity is holding workshops and seminars as an annual event. In the seminars, new topics at the time are taken up and lecturers are invited, and topics are provided to inspire new industry-university collaboration activities. At the same time, by not limiting the audience to members, we try to make them aware of the Japan Society for Intellectual Production and encourage them to join. It is necessary to fully incorporate the demands of society that are changing every day and to aim at revitalizing industry-academia collaboration activities.

With the aim of clarifying the current state of external research fundings (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Sponsored Research and Cooperative Research) at universities and clarifying the issues for activating cooperative research, we investigated the transition of the number of acceptances and the amount of money of the external research fundings and the relationship between them, targeting nine national universities (Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Tottori, Okayama, Kagawa, Tokushima, Kochi, Ehime) located in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions.

As a result, positive correlations were observed with some indicators for 1) the number of acceptances per faculty member, 2) the amount of money allocated or received per faculty member, and 3) the amount of money allocated or received per acceptance. In other words, it became clear that KAKENHI, sponsored research, and cooperative research are influencing each other. Furthermore, it was recognized that many of these indicators were positively correlated with the number of faculty members.

This result shows that it is necessary to enhance basic research by promoting grouping of research in each university's priority fields and establishing a system for enhancing the researchers and facilities, in order to promote the cooperative research.