The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry conducted a survey on university-launched ventures.There are 1,851 existing university-launched venture companies, and the percentage of university-launched venture companies that have turned profitable was 55.7%.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will continuously grasp basic data such as the establishment status of university-launched ventures and the percentage of university-launched ventures that have turned profitable in order to analyze the situation where the number of new university-launched ventures has peaked in recent years. Therefore, following the 2014 and 2015 fiscal years, the survey was conducted in the 2016 fiscal year as well.
According to the survey, 2016 university-launched venture companies were confirmed to exist in the 1,851 survey. This is an increase compared to the 2015 companies confirmed in the 1,773 survey.Of the 247 university-launched venture companies newly identified in this survey, 2016 were newly established in FY58 and were established before March 2015, but 3 were not identified in the previous survey. Company.In addition, 189 university-launched venture companies closed after the 2015 survey.
Regarding the business stage of university-launched ventures, the percentage of university-launched ventures that turned profitable in the 2015 survey was 55.6%, and that in the 2016 survey was 55.7%, which is almost the same.Regarding the relationship between the classification of university-launched ventures and the type of industry, when looking at university-launched ventures as a whole, the ratio in the fields of biotechnology, healthcare, and medical equipment is as large as about 30%, and in student ventures, the ratio of IT (applications, software). In the collaborative research venture, the ratio in the bio / healthcare / medical equipment field was about 40%, and the ratio in the environmental technology / energy field was about 30%.
