April 1, 2019

Understanding of industry-academia-government collaboration promotion
expenses in joint research

I hope this letter finds you well.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your continued support forthe promotion of collaborative innovation activities of NINS.
Up until now, NINS has carried out collaborative innovation activities,
including joint research, with the cooperation of companies and others. Despite
the severe financial situation of the government, we will continue to enhance
the research environment, secure researchers engaged in cutting-edge researchand research supporters such as URAs, and in order to further promote theefforts of collaborative innovation, it is an urgent issue to secure thenecessary expenses for its enhancement.
In FY 2016, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry formulated the"Guidelines for Fortifying Joint Research Through Industry-Academia-Government
Collaboration” and universities and national research and development agencies
are expected to utilize these guidelines and strengthen efforts toward joint
research in order to promote large-scale joint research through industryacademia-government collaboration. In addition to research expenses such as
direct and indirect expenses, this guideline also analyzes that it is importantto request industry to bear appropriate costs for the development of futureindustry-academia-government collaboration activities.
In response to this, NINS has decided to introduce an amount equivalent to
30% of direct expenses as industry-academia-government collaboration promotion
expenses when implementing industry-academia-government joint research.
With the cooperation of companies, we will strive to improve and strengthen
the research environment infrastructure of NINS, develop flexible responses tocorporate needs, and strive to return our research results to society more thanever before.
Therefore, in order for NINS to produce more research results than everbefore and to meet the expectations of everyone, we greatly value your support
andconsiderationforthepurposeoftheindustry-academia-government

collaboration promotion expenses.
Respectfully yours,OSAMU Kaneko
Executive Director
National Institutes of Natural Sciences

The industry-academia-government collaboration promotion expenses will be usedfor the following purposes.
1. Expenses related to intellectual property management
Appropriate for expenses related to the application,management, and utilization of intellectual property

maintenance,

2．Organization and operating expenses related to the industry-academiagovernment collaboration system
Appropriate for expenses for maintaining the activities of NINS thatmanages and utilizes intellectual property
3．Base environment development expenses for joint use and joint research
related to industry-academia-government collaboration
Appropriate for maintenance costs of equipment and facilities that can beused for joint use and joint research with industry
4. Industry-academia-government collaboration activity fee (Public relationsrelated)
Appropriate for expenses related to dissemination of industry-academia
collaboration activities based on intellectual property or research results