According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the amount of research funds received from private companies in 2019 by universities, junior colleges, colleges of technology, and inter-university research institutes nationwide will increase by 10.0% from the previous year to about 1,185 billion yen. ..The total amount of research funds received was about 3,481 billion yen, up 0.5% from the previous year.

 As of the end of March 2020, the survey was conducted on 3 institutions nationwide, including universities, junior colleges, colleges of technology, and inter-university research institutes, and the responses were tabulated.

 According to the report, of the amount of research funds received from private companies, research expenses for joint research amounted to about 796 billion yen, accounting for 67.2% of the total, up 16.4% from the previous year.The number of research conducted was 2, an increase of 9,255% from the previous year. The amount received per case was 6.8 million yen, but the amount received for joint research of 1 million yen or more per case was about 272 billion yen, an increase of about 1 billion yen from the previous year.

 Revenue from intellectual property rights such as patent rights is approximately 51.5 billion yen.Compared to the previous year, it decreased by 13.4%.Of this amount, the income from patent rights was about 36.6 billion yen, which is 7.5 million yen less than the previous year.

 The number of companies that have introduced a cross-appointment system in which employees enter into employment contracts with two or more organizations reached 2, an increase of 187% from the previous year.50.8 institutions have assigned research administrators to plan and manage research activities together with researchers.The number of people assigned has reached 177.

 The number of university-launched venture companies was 204, down 222% from 8.1 in the previous year.There are 21 institutions that have strategic industry-academia collaboration expenses, which is an increase of XNUMX from the previous year.

reference:[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] Regarding the implementation status of industry-academia collaboration at universities, etc. in the first year of Reiwa

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