Greetings
Director; Akihito YAMAGUCHI
On 1st April 2010, Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices composed of five national university-attached institutes including ISIR (SANKEN) in OSAKA Univ., IMRAM (Tagenken) in TOHOKU Univ., RIES (Denshiken) in HOKKAIDO Univ., CRL (Shigenken) in Tokyo Institute of Technology, and IMCE (Sendouken) in Kyushu Univ. has been started. This is a Japanese first nation-wide network research center expected to be a new framework for facilitating the inter-institute collaboration. Our ISIR as headquarter of the network will carry out the important mission. In addition, SANKEN Incubation Building has been completed in this April. That is a building for Osaka University' s first on-campus space for rental satellite laboratory of private corporations. In order to activate Japanese economy, it is necessary to make new system for utilizing the university' s research resources by industry. We believe that our on-campus satellite laboratories of private corporations should be a useful system as new academia-industry collaboration.
ISIR was founded in 1939 on the basis of strong desire and the support of the business circles in KANSAI area. Since then, we have been contributing the top basic science in the field of material, information and biology and their application to industry. Especially, we have been a leader in the field of nano-science in the recent decade. We continue to make contributions to develop the creative interdisciplinary science useful for industry and promote the academia-industry relationship.