Kagoshima University VBL Outline and Mission

Outline

Kagoshima University was converted to a National University Corporation at April 2004. As such the University is expected to create and improve the systems to transfer knowledge and techniques of its educational activities and research to society.
The Venture Business Laboratory, Kagoshima University which was established in March 2004, just before the incorporation, is the institute that provides the incubation of technology and a framework based on aims to connect basic research with closely related technology to the start of new enterprises.

As the first term’s theme, we set up to focus on the research of the“Development of NanoStructure Control Intelligent Biomaterial”which is chiefly conducted by bio-research groups in the“Department of NanoStructure and Advanced Materials”in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
At the same time, we developed the Kyocera Corporation sponsored Business Administration course with the Graduate School of Humanities-Sociological Sciences to establish the most important educational programs for the start of new enterprises, such as how to license technology, how to run companies and crisis management. These are open for researchers and graduate students.

We aim to license the advanced research and to start new venture business based on them, and further to establish the systems to transfer the profits to further research and development of new technologies.

	Facility and Equipments
	Kagoshima university VBL was build next to Kagoshima University Research and Development center to collaborate with the local industries and to promote the researches and educations opened in the whole campus. About the facility of VBL : A three-story building : Reinforced concrete : 1,500 square meters. Large-scale equipment is located on the first floor. Seminar room and non experimental project room are on the second floor. The laboratories for chemistry, biology and physics are on the third floor.
	NMR, TEM, SPM

Research Projects

As the first term’s theme, we set up to focus on the research of the“Development of NanoStructure Control Intelligent Biomaterial”which is chiefly conducted by bio-research groups in the“Department of NanoStructure and Advanced Materials”in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
This theme utilizes the structured control at the nanometer scale and the functions based on it, and is in collaboration not only with the physics and inorganic groups but also with all the graduate schools on campus.


	Education programs
	The following four programs are set. These programs are instructed by lecture, discussion, presentation, seminar and e-learning styles. 1) Drafting (Patent Prosecution, Patent Strategy) 2) Management (Venture Business, Venture Finance) 3) Fusion of technology and management 4) Psychology (crisis management)