About

The University of Tokyo's Industry-University Co-Creation Promotion Office, as a university-wide organisation, aims to actively promote planning, development and provision of common infrastructure and other necessary support for industry-university co-creation at the University of Tokyo (industry-university collaboration, including inter-organisational collaboration between companies and the University). The purpose of the University of Tokyo's Industry-University Co-Creation Promotion Division is to actively promote planning, development and provision of common infrastructures and other necessary support for industry-university co-creation at the University of Tokyo.

This organisation includes the Start-up Promotion Department, which provides start-up support centred on incubation projects and entrepreneurship education in collaboration with the Graduate School of Engineering, the promotion of various commercialisation promotion programmes and the design of an ecosystem-type The Industry-University Innovation Promotion Department is responsible for designing innovation models and creating various exit strategies in collaboration with the International Open Innovation Organisation Management Department, and the Intellectual Property Contracts and Management Department, which has an IP Contracts Group and an IP Management Group responsible for the management and utilisation of intellectual property and research contracts in general, as well as strategic management and contracts in specific technology fields for industry-university collaborative projects in Japan and abroad. The Intellectual Property Contracts and Management Department, which comprises four divisions, works together with the Legal Affairs Department for University-Industry Collaboration and the Industry-University Cooperation Department, which are administrative units of the University of Tokyo Headquarters, to promote industry-university cooperative creation and carry out related practical work. In addition, it works in close cooperation with related external organisations, such as the University of Tokyo TLO Ltd, the University of Tokyo Integrated Platform Development Corporation (Todai IPC) and the University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Corporation (UTEC).

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Executive Vice President,etc

Executive Vice President
(in charge of industry-academia-government collaboration and external-relations)
　　 Atsushi TSUDA

Executive Director and Vice President
(In charge of Startup, Industry-Academia Collaboration)

Takao SOMEYA

Vice President
(In charge of University Corporate Collaboration）

Hiroshi OOHASHI

Division of University Corporate Relations

Director General

Takao Someya
 

Deputy Director General

    Hiroyuki Takahashi
    Shin'ichi Warisawa
    Tomoko Sugano
    Aya Suzuki
    Kiyoshi Izumi
    Satoshi Iwamoto
    Junichiro Shiomi
    Yukitoshi Motome
    Kiyohiko Igarashi
    Kenji Tanaka
    Toshio Mogi
    Tomomi Yamazaki
    Tetsuya Nagaishi
    Tetsuhiro Nobuta