Talent Development Programs
Practical Training for Technology Transfer Personnel
Comprehensive Licensing / Licensing Mentorship Courses
【Training Overview】
The Comprehensive Licensing Course and License Mentorship Course provide hands-on training that involves IP management know-how for the “core personnel,” the talents who will bear the future of technology transfer. The courses are part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the universities’*1 IP management. With its primary focus being on licensing, the training will be conducted at TLOs (Technology Licensing Organizations)*2.
The applicants will be recruited and screened by JST. The TLOs, commissioned by JST, will undertake the training as instructors. Which TLO to have the training will be decided after considering the relevance between participants’ needs and TLOs’ training content.
*1 "Universities" include national, public, and private universities; national institutes of technology; inter-university research institutes; national research institutions; and, independent administrative agencies.
*2 A TLO is an organization with a platform that supports technology transfer of universities’ technological research findings.
1. Comprehensive Licensing Course
This course offers practical training, complemented by lectures and off-campus training, for participants to acquire the skills, knowledge, and experience required to engage in actual operations of technology transfer. The training period is expected to be two years (the second year will be a follow-up of the first year’s training). The curriculum consists of a core component combined with customized elements depending on the participants’ levels and requests. The total hours of training will be approximately 100 hours (the total of first and second year hours).
Targeted participants: Coordinators, URAs, or other specialists or administrative staff with over a year of practical experience in industry–academic collaboration or technology transfer. (Past experience is not required if the applicant is highly motivated.) Those who wish to engage in operations related to industry–academic collaboration or technology transfer at universities within a year.
2. Licensing Mentorship Course
This course is a practical training course that aims to find solutions for individual projects the participants are working on at their universities by providing mentoring sessions with TLOs and giving instructions on each aspect of the operations, from invention creation to licensing agreements. The total hours of training will be less than 50 hours.
Targeted participants: Coordinators, URAs, or other specialists or administrative staff with over 1–2 years of practical experience in industry-academic collaboration or technology transfer. (Past experience is not required if the applicant is highly motivated.)
List of entrusted TLOs that undertake the training (by location) (Examples from FY 2019)
| Name of TLO | Location | Number of Recruited Participants | Main instructors |
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| Shinshu Technology Licensing Organization | Ueda, Nagano | Comprehensive Licensing Course: 1 person Licensing Mentorship Course: 1 person |
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| Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute (Chubu TLO) | Nagoya, Aichi | Comprehensive Licensing Course: 1 person Licensing Mentorship Course: 1 person |
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| TLO Kyoto | Kyoto, Kyoto | Licensing Mentorship Course: 3 persons |
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| Techno Network Shikoku | Takamatsu, Kagawa | Licensing Mentorship Course: 2 persons |
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