Proprius21 Feasibility Study
Characteristics
Proprius21 fosters the meticulous pre-research work by providing a nurturing environment for planning and brainstorming collaborative research that will produce visible results. Corporate and university faculty researchers engage in passionate and frank discussions on level grounds about issues in private enterprises and social needs.
Capitalizing on the comprehensive power of researchers who are engaged in leading-edge research in various disciplines, the objective is to achieve borderless collaborative research.
Benefits/Merits for Private Enterprises
Researchers from private enterprises and the university have the opportunity to have discussions from the stage of brainstorming for an appropriate topic and can consider the basics as well as applications of this choice from a long-term perspective and establish the specifics of a collaborative research plan.
The benefits/merits for private enterprises are as follows.
System Maintenance
To create an environment where frank and serious discussions can be held to generate plans that will produce concrete results, confidential information and intellectual properties will be strictly guarded.
Improved Success Rate
Meticulous planning clarifies the objective of the research topic and roles of the researchers from both sides, raising the success rate for producing visible results. Having a shared understanding of the limits of technology and drafting strategic plans to address these increase the success rate for even challenging research topics.
Investment in New Perspectives
Investment is not just about matching the needs to seeds. Sufficient discussion between corporate and university researchers during the stage of limiting the scope and optimizing the process creates opportunities for uncovering new perspectives and new understanding. The scale of the project can grow. In conventional collaborative research, one department in a private enterprise often worked with one faculty researcher. However, in order to achieve desired results, we have started to formulate collaborative research projects that involve multiple departments in a private enterprise or in some cases multiple private enterprises to work with multiple departments of the University of Tokyo, and this is likely to result in new developments.
Early Elimination of Projects that Have No Potential for Producing Results
Sufficient debate involving both sides during the stage of project proposals/brainstorming for projects generates options to terminate the project if both sides agree. This helps avoid wasting development funds for pointless projects.
