University-Industry Collaboration and the Success Mechanism of Collaboration

 In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the transformation of academic research at universities into the development of advanced technologies in industry, therefore enabling a full role of the university as a center of knowledge-creation.

University-Industry Collaboration and the Success Mechanism of Collaboration presents recent developments in university-industry-collaborations, using case studies from Japan, and showing the mutual needs from both universities and enterprises in the knowledge-based society. 

Technical topics discussed in this book include:  

Development of University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) in the worldDevelopment of UIC in JapanCase studies of UIC in JapanContribution of UIC from Japan to the world