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Kyoto as a Home to Universities and Innovations

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2022年11月28日

 Four-year universities and two-year colleges currently based in Kyoto City total 36. As a city of universities, Kyoto has always been a leader in education and research. With a massive accumulation of research achievements with considerable future potential, the city has developed and produced outstanding academic talent, including many Nobel Prize Laureates.

 Despite disadvantages such as the difficulty in constructing large production facilities here due to its location enclosed by mountains in three directions, Kyoto City has been an incubator of many world-class high-tech companies. This has happened thanks to a favorable environment for collaboration between industry, academia and government in sharing universities’ intellectual resources with local companies and the municipality, and for combining long-established techniques in traditional industries, such as ceramics, and advanced industries.

Lacquered Elevator Doors

Lacquered Elevator Doors
A new lacquer technology developed by the Kyoto Municipal Industrial Technology Research Institute and a company in the city, which can be applied to metal and is weather resistant, is used.

 The Kyoto City government considers academia to be an important urban foundation and cooperates with local universities in revitalizing Kyoto as a city of universities.

City of universities and students

 In addition to being a city of universities, Kyoto City is a city of students. Approximately 150,000 students are enrolled at universities and colleges in the city, accounting 10% of its entire population.   Universities/colleges and students are important players in community building in Kyoto. The whole city  supports the development of these higher education institutions and the growth of their students. The Kyoto City government partners the Consortium of Universities in Kyoto, Japan’s first inter-university alliance, to enhance the appeal of studying in Kyoto, facilitate the internationalization of universities/colleges and students, assist in promoting student activities beyond institutional boundaries, and help students in career development. The Kyoto City government also works with universities/colleges in revitalizing the economy and culture of Kyoto and its local communities. City-wide efforts are thus made to develop next-generation social leaders.

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Kyoto Intercollegiate Festa

Industry-academia-government partnership for innovations

 The industrial structure of Kyoto comprises a wide range of industries, from long-developed traditional industries to advanced industries based on technologies created by universities/colleges and companies. From generation to generation since early in the Meiji era (which began in 1868), many venture companies with original technologies have been born in Kyoto. Thus Kyoto has been called “the city of Venture company”. In addition, Kyoto has served as an arena for beneficial combinations of tradition and novel ideas, which has created various innovations together with harmony and integration between diverse cultures.

 The Kyoto City government fosters industry-academia-government partnership in creating new brands by integrating Kyoto’s unique traditional industries with technologies and skills in advanced industries and building a system for stimulating technological innovation under the leadership of universities or other research institutes with the participation of companies inside and outside Kyoto. By doing so, the Kyoto City government aims to promote manufacturing industries unique to Kyoto and revitalize the local economy.

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