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Principal Investigator

Objective

Goal 1: The Development and deployment of a value chain assessment tools for the commercialization of university technologies.
This research project will investigate on the successful commercialization of university technologies in 86 national university corporations in Japan. We will investigate and analyze which technology transfer model (marketing model, hands-on model, administration model, or other models) was used in each case and clarify the relationship with the commercialization outcome.

Goal 2: Identify the success factors of the representative cases through the survey on industry-academia collaboration at universities.
A survey mainly targeting the 86 national universities will be conducted. It allows developing an evaluation scale for industry-government-academia collaboration at regional universities and visualizing the success factors that are intrinsically tied to practical, evidence-based policy evaluations.

Outline

Several programs have been implemented to stimulate industry-government-academia collaboration at regional universities with some effects. These past programs uniformly treated the regional universities as a monolith or provided resources in response to the self-identified needs of the regional universities. However, to further promote industry-government-academia collaboration at regional universities, it will be necessary to implement programs tailored to each regional university.

Unlike other previous researches on the analysis of intellectual properties and university technology-based commercial products, this research project focuses on the value creation behavior of the associates involved with the technology transfer activity.
Implementing this project would elucidate previously unexplored relationships between the associates' actions and the commercialization outcome of university-based technologies. Such findings could contribute to increased commercialization.
In addition, a survey mainly targeting the 86 national universities will be conducted. It allows developing an evaluation scale for industry-government-academia collaboration at regional universities and visualizing the success factors intrinsically tied to practical, evidence-based policy.

Furthermore, this research project could identify possible limiting factors and their solutions for the practical commercialization of university-based technologies. Such solutions can contribute to reorganizing industry-government-academia collaboration groups at regional universities by providing an optimal process tailored for each university.
A model for the effective use of resources may be developed from this research. It could be utilized as a guideline for effectively using the limited resources at the regional universities.