Proprius21 Feasibility Study
Characteristics
Proprius21 facilitates collaborative research that produces visible results by providing a nurturing environment for planning and brainstorming. Corporate and university researchers engage in passionate and frank discussions on even footing about issues in industry and social needs.
Our objective is to achieve borderless collaborative research by capitalizing on the full talents of researchers engaged in leading-edge research across various disciplines.
Benefits/Merits for Private Companies
In Proprius21, researchers from private companies and the university have the opportunity to hold discussions together from the very beginning—the stage of brainstorming for an appropriate topic. Through this process, the researchers can consider the ramifications and the potential applications of this choice from a long-term perspective before together establishing the specifics of a collaborative research plan.
The benefits/merits for private companies are as follows.
Increased organization and preparedness
To facilitate frank and serious discussions that generate plans which produce concrete results, confidential information and intellectual property must be strictly guarded.
Increased Success Rate
Meticulous planning clarifies the research objectives and the roles of researchers from both sides, thereby raising the success rate. Having a shared understanding of the limits of technology and drafting strategic plans to address such issues increases the success rate for even challenging research topics.
Investment in New Perspectives
Investment is not just about matching needs to seeds. Sufficient discussion between corporate and university researchers during the stage of scope-limiting and process optimization creates opportunities for uncovering new perspectives and new understanding. The project may grow in scale. In conventional collaborative research, one department in one private company often worked with one faculty researcher. However, in order to achieve better results, we have started to formulate collaborative research projects that involve multiple departments in one private company or in some cases multiple private companies to work with multiple departments of the University, and this process is likely to result in new developments.
Early Elimination of Projects that Have No Potential for Producing Results
Sufficient exchanges involving both sides during the project proposal/brainstorming stage generates the option to terminate the project if both sides agree. This helps avoid wasting development funds on projects of little return.
