Collaboration between Universities and NTT

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Collaboration between Universities and NTT

• June 6, 2008
• Satoshi Suzuki
• NTT Service Integration Labs.
• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

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Overview of NTT RD Structure
Applied Research and Development
Fundamental Research and Development
RD
RD
Cyber Communications Laboratory Group ( of
personnel 500)
NTT (Holding Company)
Information Sharing Laboratory Group (1,500)
Operating revenue100 B Income10 B
RD
Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group
(1,000)
NTT- ME
NTT EAST
NTT WEST
NTT Commu- nications
NTT DoCoMo
NTT Data
NTT Elec-tronics
NTT-AT
NTT Facilities
NTT Comware
RD
RD
RD
RD
RD
Software development and application services
Building design and management
Technology transfers, software and hardware
development
Plant operations
Optical devices, LSI
International and inter-prefecture communi-cations
System integration
Intra-prefecture communi-cations
Mobile communi-cations
Intra-prefecture communi-cations
(Regulated companies)
Some of these companies also have RD activities.
of consolidated companies 430
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Cyber Communications Laboratory Group
Mission
Research and development of technologies and
products for broadband and ubiquitous services so
people can enjoy safe and rewarding lives.
Organization and Topics

• Cyber Solution Laboratories
• Media computing, e.g., searching of BLOGs
• Human appliances, e.g., technology to
• connect home gateways (HGWs)
• Human interaction, e.g., universal interfaces
• Cyber Space Laboratories
• Speech and language media, e.g., G.711
• wideband extension
• Video media, e.g., H.264
• Open source software (OSS), e.g., DBMS
• and OS kernels

Yokosuka RD Center
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Information Sharing Laboratory Group
Mission
Research and development of infrastructure
technology and products to support the next
generation of network services.
Organization and Topics

• Service Integration Laboratories
• NGN architecture, communication traffic
• and quality, and multi-application smartcards
• Information Sharing Platform Laboratories
• Information security, network security, and
  single sign-on technology
• Network Service Systems Laboratories
• NGN and core technology for a photonic network
• Access Network Service Systems Laboratories
• FTTH, including GE-PON and WDM, wireless access,
  and infrastructure
• Energy Environment Systems Laboratories
• Clean energy, environment information systems,
  and EMC

Musashino RD Center
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Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group
Mission
Cutting-edge research and development leading to
the creation of new principles and concepts that
will revolutionize society.
Organization and Topics

• Network Innovation Laboratories
• 4K digital cinema distribution, MIMO technology,
• and active tags
• Microsystem Integration Laboratories
• LSI design technology, 3D-MEMS optical switches,
  and RedTacton
• Photonics Laboratories
• Optical semiconductor, optical glass, and
  ultra-high-speed electronic device technologies
• Communication Science Laboratories
• Human science, computer science, information
  theory, learning theory, natural language
  processing, and cooperative distributed systems
• Basic Research Laboratories
• Photonic crystals, quantum computers, and nano-bio

Atsugi RD Center
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Outline of NTT RD

• Personnel about 3,000 people
• Budget about 1.3 Billion
• Patent applications about 2,000-3,000/year
• Patent licenses about 15,000
• Presented papers about 2,000/year
• Research products about 300/year
• Cited reference ranking of
• enterprise labs (1996-2006)
• Engineering ?IBM,?ATT,?NTT
• Computer science ?ATT,?IBM,
• ?Microsoft,?Lucent, ?NTT
• Physics ?IBM,?ATT,?NTT

SourceThomson Scientific ISI ESSENTIAL
SCIENTIFIC INDICATORS (1996.1-2006.12)
Percentage of contributions submitted to ITU-T
(2001-2004 study period)
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Outline of Collaboration with Universities

• NTT collaborates (joint research and commissioned
  research) with universities in expectation of a
  win-win situation.
• NTT contributes to university education through
  lecturers and internships.

• Joint research projects about 300/year
• 
  (about 4.5 Million)
• Commissioned research projects about 100/year
• Lecturers at universities about 150/year
• Students at summer internship about 50-100/year

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Umbrella Collaboration Scheme with Universities
(1)

• The previous collaboration scheme with
  universities has some issues in advancing open
  innovation in RD.

Issues
Drawbacks
A narrow outlook on research scope
Person to person collaboration
Time consuming to conclude contract
Negotiation of collaboration contract
Little business creation
Academic paper is major research result
Professor
Researcher
Collaboration
Issues in previous collaboration scheme
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Umbrella Collaboration Scheme with Universities
(2)

• NTT has promoted the umbrella scheme as a
  collaboration scheme with dominant domestic
  universities since 2004 for better quality of
  research results.

Purpose
Sub-scheme
Discussion of direction by Executive Board
Introduction of PDCA cycle
Quick and timely collaboration
Umbrella agreement on intellectual property
Business creation
NTT
University
A Laboratories
Service Integration Laboratories
Executive Board
A Department
Department of Industry-Academia Collaboration

• Strategic planning of
• projects
• Matching teams between univ. and NTT
• Progress management of projects

B Laboratories
B Department
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Intellectual Property Center
Intellectual Property Center
New collaboration scheme
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Umbrella Collaboration Scheme with Universities
(3)

• NTT has concluded contracts with seven
  universities
• Kyushu University, Osaka University, Keio
  University, Nagoya University, Kyoto University,
  The University of Tokyo, Waseda University
• Conditions for umbrella agreement with a
  university
• Organization of Executive Board
• Intellectual property agreement
• Collaboration with NTT operating company
• Existence of mutually interesting field for
  win-win collaboration

Kyoto University Advanced communication
environment
Collaboration agreement ceremony with Waseda
University
Waseda University Optoelectronic devices and
network platforms in ICT
Kyushu University Combining humanities and
sciences in ICT
Keio University Ubiquitous networking in ICT
The University of Tokyo Security in information
telecommunications
Nagoya University Applications in ICT
Osaka University Networking in ICT
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Umbrella Collaboration Scheme with Universities
(4)

• Amount of joint research and shared patents has
  rapidly increased after concluding the umbrella
  collaboration scheme.

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Collaboration for Making Software (1)
Outline

• NTT asks universities to make experimental
  software for research
• Collaboration produces software, data, patents,
  evaluation reports of NTTs techniques, etc.

Purpose

• Mutual activation of research and/or education
  based on following merits

? Merits ?
ltUniversitygt - Training of students under
real projects - Getting ideas for new research
- Human exchange - Getting budget for research
ltNTTgt - Getting ideas for new research -
Reducing cost of making software - Human
exchange
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Collaboration for Making Software (2)
Number of projects in 2005-2007 2005 15
projects 2006 45 projects 2007 41
projects Collaborating universities ltJapangt
- Waseda Univ. - Keio Univ. - Kyushu Univ.
- Osaka Univ. - Kyoto Univ. - Nagoya
Univ. etc. ltChinagt - Shanghai Jiao Tong
Univ. - Univ. of Science Tech. Beijing -
Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications -
Tsinghua Univ. - Dalian Univ. of Technology
- Dalian Maritime Univ. ltUSAgt - Columbia
Univ. - Univ. of New Hampshire - Drexel Univ.
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Collaboration for Making Software (3)
Results and evaluation

• After discussion with universities, software
  specifications were brushed up.
• The software quality is equal to that made by a
  software house.
• New projects were created through this
  collaboration, e.g., joint projects, individual
  projects in universities and NTT.
• Some software made in these collaborations was
  used in business products.
• Collaboration was effective for increasing
  students skills.
• Cost for making software was decreased by about
  50.

Win Win collaboration
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Future Direction of Collaboration

• Number of collaborating universities will
  increase.
• Strategic collaboration themes will be sought for
  open innovation.
• Core collaboration themes and/or research will be
  produced.
• New businesses will start up based on
  collaboration results.

Venture business and/or new business in operating
company
Core collaboration research
Strategic Collaboration Themes
Start-up Business