Creek & River Co., Ltd., which is headquartered in Chiyoda Ward and develops agency business, announced that it will start a new business that matches "researchers" such as professors and associate professors with companies.As a business that serves as a bridge between industry, academia, and government, we will support the connection between researchers and companies.

 Behind the launch of the new business, researchers obtained research funds and even though Japan obtained 2013 patents in 340,364, which is the most patented country among 180 countries in the world. It is difficult to commercialize the product from the acquisition of a patent, and the current situation is that many excellent intellectual properties are not fully utilized.

 In response to this situation, Creek & River utilizes its own network of approximately 5 professionals in various fields such as lawyers, accountants, and doctors, and more than XNUMX companies, and has a high degree of expertise. We have launched a new business with the aim of creating opportunities to spread excellent Japanese research to the world while backing up researchers who have.

 As the main services of the business, for researchers, "Consulting for finding companies to collect research sponsors and joint research and development", "Produce commercialization and services utilizing the intellectual property obtained through research", For companies, we provide support for recruiting professors, associate professors, master / doctoral graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and human resources engaged in research and technical positions.

 Currently, we have also released a registration-based website, and have begun registering researchers at national and public universities such as the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, as well as famous private universities.In the future, we plan to expand useful content for researchers and companies by posting interviews, seminars, event information, etc. of researchers who are active on the front lines of specialized fields on our website.

Source:[Creek and River Co., Ltd.] New business that serves as a bridge for industry-academia-government collaboration A full-scale start of an agency business specializing in researchers!

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