A study on industry-academia collaboration and incentive structure for university researchers in fisheries and ocean sciences (1)

The study elucidates the incentive structure for university researchers cooperating with the industry and local communities in the fields of fisheries and oceanography. Researchers having a doctorate degree and those having a master’s degree showed different consciousness towards these collaborative efforts. In the faculties studying marine science at Kochi University, the explanatory ability of the mode was low, whereas the variables of satisfaction and importance were high, which suggests that the researchers who thought logically answered frankly. A clear relationship was identified between the factors that promote study and satisfaction with added incentives. However, because importance and satisfaction are not in direct proportion to each other (plot of the main effect), it was strongly suggested that “great support to dissatisfied researcher” would help in developing the skills of the faculty at Ryukyu University. Most of the faculties studying marine science might show the latter tendency. Different characteristics were exhibited by different faculties. The faculty of business science was actively cooperating, and all the measures, including personnel evaluation, provided an incentive. The faculties of practical science and professional science tended to be artisanal and logical. The faculties of engineering and education considered personal feelings to be an incentive. Detailed results were obtained for researchers having different educational degrees and under different faculties through an in-depth analysis under various conditions.