As the Society for Intellectual Production has become NPO and increased its public responsibility, it mast play an important role on our community. By the proposal on the process for fusion of industry and university, two different domains, and the elucidation for the mechanism on the intellectual production, our society will contribute to activate the industry-academia incorporation and to establish the scholarly understanding for the system on it.

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This paper shows a study on building of the mechanism for “SANGAKU-RENKEI” as “Intellectual Production” for new business and new industry with intellectual property in the modern society to be rich and happy. And it shows a general view on future image on the Japan Society for Intellectual Production towards much more industry-university cooperation, and the point at issue and the reason of building society for intellectual production. Trial of taxonomy on intellectual production process (SANGAKU-RENKEI) can be explained. Finally, subjects and task for studies on industry-university cooperation in Japan and future image on the Japan Society for Intellectual Production can be explained.

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The court decisions concerning cases requesting monetary compensations for employee invention have been invariably deriving monetary amount, by first decomposing into factors, such as employer's profit and employer's contribution, and then determining their values separately, and finally those factors are multiplied to obtain the amount. The empirical study on court decisions revealed some of those factors are stable and others are not. Court decisions on monetary compensations can be predictable under certain limited conditions in which stable factors are used. For unstable factors, I described issues confining predictability.

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I proposed a new type of lecture combined with an internship as a lecture for undergraduate students, and challenged for a study of intellectual production with communities, that is local companies, city office, fundamental school, and so on. In this challenge, I tried (1) to visit to communities with over 50 students, (2) to propose to open us several problems inside of communities, (3) to dived students in several small groups and to visit the communities again, (4) finally, students present their studies to all students and presidents of the communities, and the community uses the student's idea.
From this lecture, it appeared two companies to get new business or customers, and several students started a NPO (nonprofit organization).

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A theoretical explanation is given to confirm university researcher's inventions as employee inventions. The Japanese Patent Law states employee inventions are those that fall within the field of employer's business and those invented during the course of his or her employment. A dominant theory denies employee invention for university on a legal interpretation of relationship between employer's business and automatic non-exclusive licenses, since a university has no benefit of such licenses. Rather, employers value transfer of ownership more than having only non-exclusive licenses. Removing theoretical link between employer's business and non-exclusive license by valuing practice of transfer of ownership, and having new legislatures defining university business, it is now possible to conclude that university inventions meet the requirements of employee inventions.

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Requisites for the creation of “new products and technologies” from researches and developments are discussed based on the historical and pre-cursor's examples and on the author's experiences. Besides targets should be based on the social and/or the industrial needs, the target-driven researches accompanied with breakthrough are desirable. Originality, eagerness and powerfulness of researchers and engineers, and insight and decision by managers are indispensable. This means selections of the men having such abilities are the key point. But, in two cases of the above mentioned examples, either an academic or an industrial section was promoting the developments.

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The role of university-industry relationships has been increased recently from the point of new industry creation and job creation in Japan. This paper aims to clarify the trend of cooperative research, contract research, endowment research, and to analyze university-industry cooperative research according to time series using fact data.
The result shows that numbers of university-industry cooperative research and contract research have been increased steadily year by year. But a remarkable change has not seen about endowment research in the 1990s. The number of cooperative research with large companies in the vicinity of the university whose budget of research collaboration is large, has been increasing based on Yokohama National University's data. It is thought that industries have come to request a more concrete result to university-industry joint-research. It is shown that there is a discriminative tendency between the received money and distance of university-company for type of industries.

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