Local financial firms are activating their solution business for customer companies in collaboration with research universities. These recent collaborations with universities, companies, and banks were influenced by Japanese region-based relationship-banking policy of Financial Service Agency. How about should we analyze and evaluate these collaborations from the viewpoint of innovation? This article tried to frame a hypothesis that the collaborations would become one of the new regional innovation systems by a study of comparison between academic definition of relationship-banking and political definition of Japanese region-based relationship-banking. And this article looked back on the discussion in JSIP (Japan Society for Intellectual Production) Autumn Symposium 2012 as one of verification.
As the result of the verification, this article could show following 3 factors. 1) Japanese region-based relationship-banking was proceeding with political intention different from academic definition of relationship-banking. 2) Some of the recent collaborations were activated by positive bank's own organized policy. 3) There was the possibility that Japanese region-based relationship-banking would become one of the new regional innovation systems.

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We, "Customer Support Center" aim to achieve an efficient finance to contribute for the development of local economy.
We support SME to providing several solutions for their agenda and which lead to a stability of management and financial health. As we believe "Science & Technology" should be an important function to achieve it.

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What factor is important to make a success of the collaboration between SMEs and Universities? It is the existence of coordinators that have negotiation skill to fill the gap of their culture and opinion, to win their confidence and to build a business.
Tama Shinkin Bank send workers as an important personnel support for Universities to coordinate SMEs' needs and Universities' research seeds. The coordinator's role and activity is expected to be effective for the collaboration after this. Universities that have cooperation agreement with banks should accept loan workers as the coordinators.
In future the collaboration should be tried to coordinate with not only the school of science and engineering but also the school of humanities for the social contribution to citizen.

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It has been almost ten years since the initiatives of industry-academia collaboration started in Japan. However, asking the question "Do collaboration really happen?", the answer is somewhat doubtful. In the background, there may be certain circumstances reflecting our culture and society. And also, "respect" in the true meaning has not been fully nurtured between industry and academia. It is strongly required for both industry and academia sides to change the way of thinking fundamentally.
We have to admit that the position of Japan in the global economy has been dropping these days, and then now industry-academia collaboration based upon "respect" is increasing important necessary. However, it seems that the parties concerned in collaborative activities are lacking this consciousness. Understanding and practicing is strongly requested. Nomura Securities endeavors to promote the industry-academia collaboration on our own belief that the security industry supports the foundation of economies.

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In order to progress the Industry / Academy / Financial institution, Okayama University concluded the comprehensive cooperative agreement with 4 financial institutions in Okayama prefecture. Cooperative research examples are only 4cases which start through the intermediation between local small enterprises and our university by two of these financial institutions. It is mentioned in this paper that the development of the sports shoes like Japanese "Jikatabi" shoes, which has a thumb independent from other 4 fingers. Walking character is experimentally analyzed with bare foot and sport shoes sold at stores in our university with 3 dimensional force measuring plate. Furthermore, effective application of the salesperson to IAF cooperation is indispensable. Therefore, the contents of the Industry / Academy / Financial institution cooperation training currently performed for the salesperson who take charge of corporation business are introduced.

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This paper describes on the project, Edokko No.1 Development by Industry-University and Financial institution cooperation. The objective of this project is round trip type deep sea investigation vehicle development and human resources in small factory in Tokyo downtown. Features of this deep sea investigation vehicle, 1. Low cost, 2. Easy Handling 3. limiting of function. There is a possibility of develop new markets for these features. Financial institutions has launched new initiatives in cooperation with research institutions and universities in order to revitalize the area, to provide companies with solutions. This project is one example.

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The author retired Cooperative Research Center (CRC) in the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in March 2012 after 16 years of a liaison professor. He was requested to let the members of JSIP know his experiences for some examples. This article depends on his last lecture in UEC on small history of his activities.

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Twenty-first century Japan calls for a collaborative business model that brings together industry, academia, and government--a functional coalition among industrial firms that capitalizes on knowledge produced by universities and which enjoys the support of local government. In this paper, I pull together the respective intellectual contributions of these various sectors to consider this challenge from a new perspective, introducing an initiative to establish a public industrial research platform in the field of marine research that will be able to lead to rapid answers.

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