JSPS has created a great number of university-industry
cooperative research committees since its establishment in 1932 as a non-profit
foundation. Such committees, each focusing on a specific industrial subject,
are organized at the request of academia or industry for the purposes
of advancing intersectoral scientific information exchange and discussion
of scientific application or technical development. JSPS supports these
committees with aims at promoting their smooth operation and publishing
scientific literature on their fruits. The operating expenses of these
committees are paid for by membership fees from the private companies
participating in them. Over the years, 180 such committees have been organized.
Some of them have completed their work and been dissolved. There are currently
62 active committees.
In an effort to expand this program, in 1982
JSPS established an advisory committee, composed of members from both
academia and industry. This committee serves two functions: 1) It receives
and deliberates requests from academia and/or industry for organizing
university-industry cooperative research committees on specific themes;
and 2) it proposes new, budding fields of scientific research that have
the potential to be advanced through university-industry cooperation.
Research promotion committees are created upon recommendations by this
advisory committee, and a committee is currently working actively in the
field of high-power semiconductor device research. The activities of such
committees are supported by government subsidies.
In 1990, JSPS set up a new program under which
it provides partial financial support for international symposia on specific
research topics. To be eligible, these symposia must be organized by JSPS
university-industry committees, with an aim of advancing international
scientific information exchange through university-industry cooperation.
They must also have at least 100 participants, including no fewer than
20 foreign scientists.
|
Name of Committee |
Year of Establishment |
19th |
Committee on Steelmaking |
1934 |
24th |
Committee on Foundry Technology |
1936 |
36th |
Committee on Industrial Instrumentation |
1947 |
54th |
Committee on Ironmaking |
1943 |
69th |
Committee on Materials Processing and Applications |
1944 |
76th |
Committee on Construction Materials |
1944 |
108th |
Committee on Business Administration |
1947 |
111th |
Committee on Development on the Utilization of Minerals |
1947 |
116th |
Committee on Chemistry Creating Organic Compounds with
Novel Functions |
1948 |
117th |
Committee on Carbon Materials |
1948 |
118th |
Committee on Industrial Structure: Small and Medium Business |
1948 |
120th |
Committee on Functionalization of Textiles and Polymers |
1948 |
122nd |
Committee on Nuclear Metallurgy |
1956 |
123rd |
Committee on Heat Resisting Metals and Alloys |
1957 |
124th |
Committee on Advanced Ceramics |
1958 |
125th |
Committee on Conversion between Light and Electricity |
1958 |
129th |
Committee on Strength and Fracture of Advanced Materials |
1960 |
130th |
Committee on Optoelectronics |
1961 |
131st |
Committee on Thin Films |
1961 |
132nd |
Committee on Electron and Ion Beam Science and Technology |
1962 |
133rd |
Committee on Microstructures and Functions of Materials |
1962 |
134th |
Committee on Colour Fastness Tests |
1963 |
136th |
Committee on Future-Oriented Machining |
1964 |
139th |
Committee on Properties of Steam |
1969 |
141st |
Committee on Microbeam Analysis |
1974 |
142nd |
Committee on Organic Materials Used in Information Science and Industry |
1974 |
143rd |
Committee on Process Systems Engineering |
1976 |
144th |
Committee on Magnetic Recording |
1976 |
145th |
Committee on Processing and Characterization of Crystals |
1977 |
146th |
Committee on Superconductive Electronics |
1982 |
147th |
Committee on Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials |
1983 |
148th |
Committee on Coal and Carbonaceous Resources Utilization Technology |
1984 |
150th |
Committee on Acoustic Wave Device Technology |
1985 |
151st |
Committee on Advanced Nanodevice and Nanomaterial Technology |
1986 |
153rd |
Committee on Plasma Materials Science |
1988 |
154th |
Committee on Semiconductor Interfaces and Their Applications |
1990 |
155th |
Committee on Fluorine Chemistry |
1990 |
157th |
Committee on Structural Response Control |
1994 |
158th |
Committee on Vacuum Nanoelectronics |
1994 |
160th |
Committee on Plant Biotechnology for the Environment, Food and Resources |
1996 |
161st |
Committee on Science and Technology of Crystal Growth |
1996 |
162nd |
Committee on Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Photonic and Electronic Devices |
1996 |
163rd |
Committee on Internet Technology |
1996 |
164th |
Committee on Genome Technology |
1996 |
165th |
Committee on Ultra Integrated Silicon Systems |
1996 |
166th |
Committee on Photonic and Electronic Oxide Materials |
1997 |
167th |
Committee on Nano-probe Technology |
1997 |
168th |
Committee on Zero Emission |
1997 |
169th
|
Committee on Structural Biology using Diffraction Techniques |
2000
|
170th
|
Committee on Redox Life Innovation |
2000
|
171st |
Committee on Optical Network System Technology |
2000 |
172nd |
Committee on Alloy Phase Diagrams |
2001 |
173rd |
Committee on Switching Power Supply Systems for Coming Era |
2001 |
174th |
Committee on Molecular Nanotechnology |
2001 |
175th |
Committee on Innovative Photovoltaic Power Generating Systems |
2004 |
176th |
Committee on Process Created Materials Function |
2004 |
177th |
Committee on System Design and Integration |
2005 |
178th |
Committee on Plant Molecular Design |
2005 |
179th |
Committee on Photonics Information Systems |
2006 |
180th |
Committee on Risk-Based Plant Management |
2007 |
181st |
Committee on Multifunctional Molecular Electronics |
2008 |
182nd |
Committee on Terahertz Science, Technology and Industrial Development |
2008 |
183rd |
Committee on Advanced Water Science and Engineering |
2010 |