Development Programs for Innovative Talents
in Science and Technology

Research Promotion and Management Course

For the systematic learning of basic knowledge for the promotion of industry–academia collaborations and technology transfer:

This course offers opportunities to acquire the basic knowledge needed to promote and manage R&D projects. The participants will learn key concepts to panoramically grasp the series of operations associated with assisting research and industry-academia collaborations, and engage in promoting a project with the outlook of a potential proposal for the next step.

Curriculum

With this curriculum, participants will learn the common challenges and know-hows at the forefront of industry–academia collaborations as well as the latest relevant topics about such collaborations.

• Fundamentals of research promotion

  Participants will learn the fundamentals of the operations related to research promotion through understanding the significance and mission of industry–academia collaborations for universities and other research institutions.

• IP strategies for universities

  Participants will learn the significance of IP, as well as the concept and future of IP strategies for universities, concerning the derivation of research findings.

• Efforts to improve research quality

  Participants will learn a potential course of promoting and assisting institutions’ research and industry–academia collaborations by understanding the current efforts taken to enhance research quality.

• Collaborative research agreements

  Participants will learn what to keep in mind when collaborating with firms and how to negotiate with them.

• Risk management

  Participants will learn the overview of risk management in industry-academia collaboration activities, and precautions to take when engaging in research promotion.

Group work during a class (2019): Participants working on a theme related to collaborative research agreements