University's Venture and Technology Transfer:On a Case of Ehime University
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The main theme of this years' meeting of The Society for Industrial Studies was "university industry relationship as regional industry policy". Minakuchi and Miyake are the staffs of venture fostering room of Center for Cooperative Research and Development of Ehime University (CCRD). Minakuchi is a vice chairman of CCRD. Miyake has been directly involved in making and supporting Ehime University's Venture.In this article, in the first chapter, we thought about the meaning of theme of university industry relationship as regional industry policy. In the second chapter, we explained the status quo of the organization of CCRD. In the third chapter, we investigated the successful model of fostering university's venture according to the report of Kinki METI Bureau. From the 4th chapter to 6th, a case of Ehime University raising of funds using patent of university's venture will be explained as the result of case study obtained through an interview. Minakuchi wrote the first three chapters. The following, three chapters were written by Miyake.Now there are five companies involved in the university's venture at Ehime University. Two of them are bio-companies. One is an IT-company and the other one is a machine & apparatus-company. One of bio-companies has been increasing it's revenue so much this year it is going to do an IPO. Others are on early stage that they have no enough cash flow. They are raising funds from venture capital and public subsidy. Generally speaking, independent VCs, sometimes, invest to companies on ultra early stage. They call it "finding". In Ehime University's ventures, two of bio-companies were fit for this "finding". As for patent, four of five companies had already applied for patent before raising funds. Except one bio-company who is just before IPO, the rest of companies have no adequate knowledge on the patent strategy yet. There were cases where some professors of venture companies had to write patent specifications and apply for patents themselves because of lack of money to hire patent attorneys to do the task. All of the companies that we interviewed sufficiently know the importance of patents. They all recognize that the presence of patent including patent pending somewhat contributed to the estimation of technology and raising funds from outside.We made a hypothesis that "in order to raise funds from outside, possessing major and related patents is an important criteria for university's ventures". According to our research we found that university's venture, demander for funds especially professors who are inventors of these patents believe this hypothesis is true. But suppliers of funds do not necessarily recognize this hypothesis. Venture Capitalists will look favorably at the ownership of patents by universities when raising funds. It is difficult to justify the future corporate value only by looking at patent on university's venture on early stage. It seems that the judgment whether the university's venture could pass on "death valley" or not is made by the base of total judgment of effective and excellent business plan, management personality and ability and other important qualities. At last they seem to be making investment decision on "sense of skin" depending on the base of experience of president.Only possessing high technology or patent is not sufficient for a university's venture to get funds. Business plan written by excellent manager is very important. The fact is the business plan has a secured value as intangible asset. It should be noted the importance of the role to be played by a coordinator in such a relationship. Regional programs such as MOT & MBA can train future able coordinator.
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