<特集 連携する大学>大学モデルの衝突と産学連携 : 産学連携コーディネートの現場から

Abstract

International Innovation Center of Kyoto University (KU-IIC) was established as a joint research center of the university in 2001. The Center consists of two divisions, Research Management and Research Initiatives, and the Division of Research Management offers a portal function of industry-university cooperation (SANGAKU-RENKEI) in Kyoto University. One of the schemes of industry-university cooperation provided by KU-IIC is "comprehensive joint research." Other activities include "mediation of technology consulting," "active support for university faculty to set up new business," "industry-university cooperation on free discussion," and so on. Compared to the whole activities of industry-university cooperation in Kyoto University, the number of the cases handled by KU-IIC is little, however, the true role of KU-IIC is to ascertain the new patterns of industry-university cooperation and to make them into useful models through numerous practices. Conflicts inherent in industry-university cooperation can be explained by the collision of the two university models ; university as "an industry system" and university as "an academic system." If both industry and university representatives regard university as "an industry system," its cooperation becomes a managementoriented research. If both sides regard university as "an academic system," their cooperation becomes science-oriented research. On the other hand, if two sides of the representatives come up with different university models, they will face issues of quality control or struggle for intellectual property. The essence of industry-university cooperation is to discover new values based on deep intellectual interchanges between industry and university, and to put them into concrete forms. However, there maybe some negative effects in industryuniversity cooperation as well. For first, there is a big concern with intellectual property management. For Second, it is a matter of essential mission of the university. Through cooperating efforts, some articles have indicated that university could lose its long-held fair stance to present critical points to a society. Lastly, if university is expected to be independent as business enterprise, they will soon need to "commodify" their own students. How far does a university want to pursue "an industry system" within itself? And yet simultaneously keep an academic system within? This is the major issue of industry-university cooperation.