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 world Development of UIC in Japan Case studies of UIC in Japan Contribution of UIC from Japan to the world