Collaborations between Academia and Society in the Educations for Innovations

One of the most serious problems we have is decreasing workforce in Japan while the GDP per capita is almost constant in these 20 years. Continuous innovations are absolutely necessary to keep our QOL in the future. Most innovations are based on the fusion or integration of technology breakthroughs. Technology breakthroughs are mainly achieved in the industries but based on the scientific discoveries in the universities. Most researches in the universities are single disciplined. Research and Development in the industries are mainly carried out by the collaboration of differently specialized people. It becomes more and more important to design the innovations for the future society and people. Industries know the way to combine the different specialties and universities have deep scientific knowledge. The university-industry collaborations in educations for innovations are valid and feasible.