The 4th meeting of EMP Seminar Series in Academic Year 2015 will be held.
Naoki Saijo, Producer, Senior Research Scientist, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Shinobu Masaki, Director of the ATR Brain Activity Imaging Center, ATR-Promotions, Inc. and Prof. Fumihiko Uchida, Professor, Deputy Director for International Innovation Interface Organization, University of Tsukuba, will lecture in the 2015 EMP Seminar Series. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity.
Date and Time: June 12 (Fri), 2015, 0:15PM～3:00PM
Room: 3B213, Dai-San Area, University of Tsukuba
Organizer: Jun Izawa, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Systems
Speakers：Dr. Naoki Saijo (Producer, Senior Research Scientist, NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
Dr. Shinobu Masaki (Director of the ATR Brain Activity Imaging Center, ATR-Promotions, Inc.)
Prof. Fumihiko Uchida (Professor, Deputy Director for International Innovation Interface Organization, University of Tsukuba)
Language：Japanese (* Most of the slides are written in English.)
Title: How we can overcome the deep valley between basic research and industrialization
Summary: “Is basic research sustainable in a business organization?” There is no single answer to this question. This is due to the possibility that the meanings of basic research could differ between a university and a business.Basic research in a business needs to be planned with an eye toward commercialization based on underlying requests from stakeholders, which would seem to differ from the bottom-up approach to identifying issues employed in academia. This seminar welcomes two lecturers with valuable practical experience both in basic research in a business organization and in linking the results of basic research to commercialization, as well as a professor responsible for industry-academy partnership at the University of Tsukuba, to discuss the ideal forms of basic research intended for commercial purposes, issues in linking basic research to commercialization, and the vision of the PhD that will be in demand in the future.