Industry-Academia Research Collaborations in the Post-corona Era: A Case Study of Remote Operations in a Japanese State-of-the-Art Research Facility

Onoda, T.; Ito, Y.

Recently, research facilities in academia take on a crucial role in the innovation ecosystem where facilities are promoting research collaborations through shared use with other research organizations, academia, and firms. We focus on the remote operation of measurement methods and speed-up technologies as a countermeasure against COVID-19 setback, whereby face-to-face contact and interactions are restricted, thus making it impractical for users to visit and use research facilities. We discuss how these new technologies and methodologies promote and obstruct industry-academia research collaborations during the post-corona period. Specifically, the focus is on NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Device), a state-of-the-art research facility that promotes shared use to external users in Japanese academic research institutes. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.