This report outlines the background and evolution of intellectual property education at Niigata University, and introduces the current status of practice in conducting “Introduction to Intellectual Property,” a required subject in the Faculty of Engineering, and the elective subjects “Introduction to Patents, Management, and Product Development” and “Patents and Technology Management I & II,” which are common university-wide subjects. It also reports on the practice of “Technology Development and Intellectual Property” at Nagaoka University of Technology and “Intellectual Property Theory” at Niigata University of Pharmacy and Medical and Life Sciences, and discusses issues and future prospects in light of the practice of intellectual property education.

This report introduces the educational practice of mutual collaboration between the region and intellectual property education, which is characteristic of Kitami Institute of Technology, regarding intellectual property education at an industrial university. Currently, Kitami Institute of Technology offers the course “Introduction to Intellectual Property” as a compulsory subject for second-year students. The goal of this course is to ensure that students graduating as engineering graduates have a correct understanding of the purpose and overview of the intellectual property rights system. In addition, third-year students are offered “Theory of Intellectual Property” as an elective course, which is positioned as a practical course to learn how to utilize intellectual property in the region, based on the study of Introduction to Intellectual Property.

This paper presents the outcomes and significance of educational programs in which students take the lead in creating anime educational materials and music videos (MVs) related to intellectual property. Intellectual property is generally considered a difficult field to understand, but when students, rather than experts, create content from the audience’s perspective, they can produce more accessible and understandable materials. Throughout the production process, they were required to organize their knowledge and consider how to communicate their ideas effectively, which contributed to improving their logical thinking skills and practical abilities. Furthermore, experiencing the joy of creation fosters a sustained interest in learning, while the social implementation of their work enables students to gain a sense of achievement. Based on practical examples, this paper suggests that student-driven content creation can be an effective approach to intellectual property education.

Considering the social background with the demand for training of human resources in the intellectual property field and looking ahead to reorganization of faculties of science and technology in the 2019 academic year, the Center for General Education under the Education and Student Support Organization in Ehime University started discussion of introducing “intellectual property education” in faculties of sciences (faculties of science, medicine, engineering, and agriculture) in 2017. Between 2017 and 2018, the Ehime University Educational Reform Promotion Project implemented a program entitled “development and trial of intellectual education program recommended as general education for all departments.” In this program, students in humanities’ faculties were identified as having strong needs for intellectual property education. Thus, since the 2020 academic year, the general education program “Introduction to Intellectual Property” has become a compulsory subject for freshmen of all faculties. Learners’ results and questionnaire results show a high degree of understanding of learners in the compulsory subject and adequate quality of the class.

In this paper, an analysis of intellectual property education for international students at Yamaguchi University has been conducted while examining the effect of education and identifying the issues. As a result, it has been confirmed that when providing IP education in English more effort is needed to give a comprehensible interpretation of legal terms. It has also become clear that there is little existing literature on this topic, suggesting the need for further examination and analysis of the effect of IP education as well as the need for further data collection.

If intellectual property is to be the subject of education, it is necessary to find a universal significance that the intellectual property system is a system that truly contributes to society.

In this paper, first, the author examines the research of Fritz Machlup, who analyzed the socio-economic significance of the intellectual property system in detail based on economic principles, and the research of Robert Marges, who reconsidered it based on the significance of “rights” in human society. Next, the author of this paper conducts a theoretical analysis of the relationship between the intellectual property system and the “new capitalism” that is being attempted to establish the sustainability that humans are facing in the 21st century. Furthermore, the author of this paper takes up the activity results of the “I-Open Project” implemented by the JPO and the regional branding project implemented by our university and examines whether the intellectual property system is suitable as a subject of education based on the experience of logical analysis and empirical evidence.

In this report, I reconstructed previous reports on intellectual property education to introduce the educational methods used to date, and from these examples, I examined factors that should be taken into consideration when conducting intellectual property education in small groups.

In conclusion, we were able to confirm the significance of developing teaching methods that take into consideration the following: 1) improving lessons by understanding the situation of the target students, 2) creating teaching materials that take into account the curriculum system and learning stage, 3) creating intellectual property teaching materials from familiar phenomena, 4) using the same material in a variety of ways in lessons at different learning stages, 5) digitizing teaching materials and reusing said content, 6) creating teaching materials that incorporate new technologies such as the introduction of an AI speech system, 7) acquiring copyright processing skills, 8)creating teaching materials in collaboration with students, and 9) collaborating with entrepreneurial education personnel.

The purpose of this study was to identify the internal factors of Japanese universities that influence the total number and increase in their spin-offs. The analysis employed the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and Lasso regression. The dependent variables included the total number of university spin-offs in FY2019, FY2020, and FY2021, as well as the annual increase in spin-offs (from FY2019 to FY2020) and the two-year increase (from FY2019 to FY2021). The independent variables included collaborative research funding, contract research funding, grants-in-aid for scientific research (KAKENHI), the number of patent applications, the number of researchers, and the number of specialized support personnel. As a result, contract research funding had the largest positive impact on the total number of university spin-offs in each fiscal year, while the number of specialized support personnel had the most significant positive impact on the annual and the two-year increases in spin-offs.

In order to clarify the status of cooperative research projects at national universities located in regional areas, we analyzed the number of cooperative research projects for the five-year period from 2014 to 2018 fiscal year for 18 universities that provided information on cooperative research contracts. The results showed that: 1) most universities have a high ratio of large companies as their cooperative research partners, followed by small and medium-sized enterprises, 2) for cooperative research projects with large companies, the ratio of companies located in the Kanto region is the highest, followed by in the Kinki and Tokai regions, 3) for cooperative research projects with small and medium-sized enterprises, the ratio of companies located in the prefecture where the university is located is high, but the ratio of companies in the Kanto, Kinki, and Tokai regions is also high.

We compared the results of this survey with the results of the previous survey for the period from 2009 to 2013 fiscal year. The results showed that: 1) there is no significant change in the overall trend, 2) the number of cooperative research projects is increasing in most of universities, 3) many universities are increasing cooperative research projects with large companies in the Kanto region, and 4) many universities are increasing cooperative research projects with small and medium-sized enterprises located in the prefecture where the university is located.

Facing sluggish economic growth and a decline in the competitiveness of traditional industries, it is urgently necessary to promote new and highly competitive industries throughout the country. Overcoming this challenge will require the utilization of the potentials of each region and the promotion of cross-sectoral collaborations between actors of different fields toward developing more sophisticated industrial frameworks. For that goal, the management to facilitate cross-sectoral collaborations is indispensably needed. Based on the awareness of the issue, this study conducts a comparative study of the cases in Japan (Yabu-city and Niigata-city) and Germany (Bavaria) where proactive approaches are taken for promoting competitive food/agricultural industries, which have high growth potential through cross-sectoral collaborations. The study clarified the similarities and differences between the cases. These findings are analyzed and interpreted, and future research issue is described.

We had researched for the factor of actions and decisions of person (hereafter, ADP) in charge of the activities for Industry-Academia collaboration. In this paper, we extracted two factors of the externalization and the commonization from two theories of business administration; the SECI model and the Sensemaking. By adding the dual process theory to two factors, we proposed the visualization of the transition of decisions of person. We suggest the analysis method for the change of ADP in progress of the collaboration. In this method, factor of ADP would be classified Four status; Ambition (individual and immanence), Opinion (individual and external), Empathy (collective and immanence), and Vision (collective and external). we suggested the analysis method for the change of ADP in progress of the collaboration.

As case study, we tried to apply this method to a fishery Promotion Project by ICT. The method could be visualized the progress and factor of ADP in this project.

This paper analyzes the fields of expertise and various variables of university professors who become corporate executives. As a result, it was found that both science and humanities fields contribute to corporate governance.