Journal of the Japan Society for Intellectual Production
Online ISSN : 1881-8706
Print ISSN : 1349-6913
ISSN-L : 1349-6913
Volume 6, Issue 2
Displaying 1-6 of 6 articles from this issue
Original Articles
  • Yukiko SHINYA, Hitoshi KIKUMOTO
    2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 2_1-2_14
    Published: 2010
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2010
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    The object of this research is to find out the influential factors in the development of collaboration between the academic and industrial circles. Firstly, we conducted a questionnaire survey on the growth indicators and factors of university-industry cooperation on the faculty and liaison staffs in 33 universities, which participated in the "University Intellectual Property Headquarters Development Program" of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from 2003 to 2007. This survey revealed that the respondents consider the "collaborative" and "sponsored" researches as the most appropriate growth indicators of the cooperation, and financial motivations, such as the necessity to acquire external funds and the increase of subsidies, as its most critical growth factors. Based on the data obtained in the survey, we carried out multiple linear regression analyses with respect to both the number of collaborative research projects and the amount of their in-coming research budget as the objective variables. The results suggest that the government subsidies have boosted universities' awareness of the need of university-industry collaboration, and that it is important to construct the system which supports the activities of the full-time liaison professors for promotion of the collaboration.
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  • Chieko KIMURA
    2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 2_15-2_24
    Published: 2010
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2010
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    Clarifying the characteristics of the system design of Collaboration organization brings us to the light of understanding the activation of German Collaboration with Universities and Industries. So as an example, I have conducted comparative study on two different types of organizations, University-Industry Collaboration Association which is the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. As a result, some common features were found; 1) A deep involvement of University Professors to the institute, and the system that support them, 2) Established research and education system as an attractive career field for students, 3) Good balance of support and competition in finance. 4) Intellectual property strategy. These similarities can be implemented to Japanese University-Industry Collaboration in the future.
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  • Kazumasa KAWASAKI
    2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 2_25-2_32
    Published: 2010
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2010
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    More than 20 years have passed since the organizations for university-industry collaborations, so-called, centers for cooperative research that have a role as the bridge between the university and industrial world, have been established in Japanese national universities. The situations of circumstances in which Japanese national universities finds itself, have changed due to the incorporation of national universities and so on. At the same time, the roles of the organizations for university-industry collaborations have changed and therefore the organizations have been reconstituted actively in recent years. In this paper, the transitions of the organizations for university-industry collaborations are investigated and analyzed based on the web information. In addition, the formation of the organization to proceed is discussed. As a result, the following characteristics were revealed. The names of centers for cooperative research have changed and more than 50 percent of the organizations for university-industry collaborations have been reconstituted. The center for cooperative research has been integrated with the intellectual property office and the transitions of the framework, name, and role have been confirmed in the majority of cases.
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  • Yumi TAKASAWA, Hiroyuki ONO
    2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 2_33-2_43
    Published: 2010
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2010
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    This study is about the research evidence from survey of current situation about the collaboration between universities and financial institutions. Our findings as follows;
    More than half universities and local financial institutions are collaborating with each other.
    Typical activities are "holding of seminars", "matching the needs and seeds", and "technical support". And the current issues are shortages of human resources and undeveloped the systems.
    From general situation, collaboration between universities and financial institutions are confronted with a precarious position because of strong promotion of "Relationship Banking" by Financial Services Agency among the very short period.
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  • Yoshikazu YAMAGUCHI
    2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 2_44-2_55
    Published: 2010
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2010
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    This study analyzed the data of the acceptance of external funds in national universities in the period including the transformation into independent corporations. As a result, it is revealed that the differentials among universities exist in the acceptance amounts of external funds per teacher, and the differentials correlate moderately with the numbers of teachers of universities, and that the differentials are expanding and the increase-decrease rates of the acceptance amounts of external funds per teacher correlate weakly with the numbers of teachers of universities, and that the acceptance amounts of external funds per item in grants-in-aid for scientific research and consigned research funds and the acceptance numbers of items of external funds per teacher in donated funds for scholarly activities and joint research funds correlate more strongly with the acceptance amounts of external funds per teacher. In the future, it will be necessary to analyze the external funds considering the differences in the formation of faculties and graduate schools, and to study what the systems of external funds accepted from companies should be.
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Research Note
  • Naoki KATO, Hidetsugu NANBA
    2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 2_56-2_62
    Published: 2010
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2010
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    By analyzing successful patent licensing cases, the authors found a peculiar pattern in which firms tend to take patent license in a technological field different but close to those they have previously developed. The International Patent Classification (IPC) is applied to the technological field. The theory of absorptive capacity is the theory that because a firm may assimilate new external information relying on prior knowledge, the firm has a likelihood that it develops knowledge in those areas closely related to prior knowledge it has held. A computer-aided system was developed to systematically extract, according to the peculiar pattern, patent assignees which can be considered potential licensees. It may provide a novel coordinating tool to be used in university-industry collaboration.
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