The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, together with the Japan Business Federation and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, in order to "visualize" the university's efforts regarding industry-academia-government collaboration activities, "University Fact Book for Promoting Matching in Industry-Academia-Government Joint Research" Was announced.

 In order for Japan to lead the era of drastic changes in the industrial structure and international competitive environment against the backdrop of rapid technological innovations such as AI and IoT, we will seek to break away from excessive self-reliance and external resources. It is indispensable to expand open innovation that utilizes IoT.

 Under these circumstances, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology have an "innovation promotion industry-academia-government dialogue" composed of business people and university officials in order to promote full-scale industry-academia-government joint research between "organization" and "organization". "Meeting" was established in 2016, and "Guidelines for strengthening joint research through industry-academia-government collaboration" were formulated.Furthermore, in April 2017, a pilot version of the "Fact Book" was published, which summarizes the achievements of each university working on industry-academia-government collaboration.

 This time, in the "fact book", information on the contact point for industry-academia collaboration (department in charge of industry-academia collaboration, person in charge, telephone number, email address, etc.), the work actually performed by the department in charge of industry-academia collaboration, and the scale of joint research Described new information such as the number of cases and the status of maintenance of regulations related to industry-academia collaboration. Published as a formal version that summarizes information on 327 universities (82 national universities, 57 public universities, 188 private universities) in more detail.

 The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry hopes that more companies will utilize this factbook to expand investment in the "value of knowledge" of universities and to realize full-scale industry-academia-government collaboration activities. ing. The "Fact Book" can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Reference: [Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan Business Federation] "University fact book for promoting matching in industry-academia-government joint research" has been compiled.

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