Kyoto University and Daikin Industries will discuss how air conditioning should be in Asia and Africa = Provided by Kyoto University
Industry-academia collaboration is advancing to a new stage. From the conventional type in which each laboratory is connected to a company, to "industry-academia co-creation" in which the university and the company are involved with each other. This is to create big innovation. Kyoto University and Osaka University, which have less funds from companies and the number of joint research projects than the University of Tokyo, are not inferior in terms of research quality. Hurry to change the way of thinking and try to rewind.
"Let's do it with the feeling of creating a new 100-year air-conditioning culture." At the first meeting in April 2021, Daikin Industries was surprised at Kyoto University's bold proposal. The comprehensive cooperation agreement, which assumes a total investment of 5 billion yen in 10 years, will proceed with research on a wide range of themes under the theme of "fusion of humanities and sciences." One of them is "Halal air conditioning".
The idea of not using ingredients prohibited by Islam in the oil used at the manufacturing site of air-conditioning equipment was born from a researcher at the Graduate School of Asian and African Regional Studies, Kyoto University. "I will search for ordinary collaborative research from where I can," said Tomoyuki Aragawa of Kyoto University. We need to involve researchers. " Daikin will also conclude a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Osaka University that will contribute about 5.6 billion yen in 10 years.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (14.5 billion yen) is ranked first, Osaka University is second (10.9 billion yen), and Kyoto University is third (7.5 billion yen) in research funds from private companies of domestic universities in FY2008. .. The University of Tokyo has many top years. In addition to the high level of research, it seems easy to have contact with large companies concentrated in the metropolitan area. Harvard University and Stanford University have several times more private funding than domestic universities.
Kyoto University, who has heard from staff members that "there is a long-standing atmosphere that researchers cannot make money," also said, "How to embed new" knowledge "in society. There is a lot of room for innovation in industry-academia collaboration." ) And put in a serious attitude. Subsidies for operating expenses to national universities have decreased, with Kyoto University decreasing by 12% and Osaka University decreasing by 14% in FY2008. The importance of working with companies will increase.
Osaka University has teamed up with NEC in the "Future Society Co-creation Consortium" that started in 20 years. Instructor Tomoyuki Naito, who stood up while discussing how to use the glasses-type information terminal "SHUTTER Glass", clarified the knowledge of brain science and psychology and the mechanism of the mind that feels beauty with artificial intelligence (AI). Aiming researcher. He says, "Quantitatively extracting human sensibilities is an important concept. I was able to properly embody the contents of basic research."
Daikin also concludes an agreement with the University of Tokyo to contribute 10 billion yen over 10 years. Osaka University also obtains research funds from companies outside the Kansai region, such as Chugai Pharmaceutical and Otsuka Pharmaceutical. Choosing a partner for cooperation is performance-oriented and severe. If the number of co-creations between Kansai groups increases, it will lead to economic revitalization.
