<As of April 1, 2023>
It is a mutual assistance organization (non-profit mutual benefit corporation) where association members conduct collaborative researches about technologies used in industrial activities by themselves, and it is a corporation established in accordance with the “Act on Research and Development Partnership”.
The association members including corporations, universities, public research institutes, send researchers and share the costs for researches and facilities, to conduct collaborative researches. They manage the research results together to make use of them.