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Research paper : Development of high power and high capacity lithium secondary battery based on the advanced nanotechnology (I. Honma)−229 Synthesiology - English edition Vol.1 No.4 (2009) linked, to push the innovation potential quickly to realization. In this collaboration scheme, the new technology of university and AIST is transferred quickly to the automaker, which enables quick investigation of efficacy and reliability. Technological request of the automaker can be back cast (fed back) to AIST and university through the battery maker, and this may provide direction for the basic research. By sharing this bi-directionality among the participating organizations, close information exchange and basic research that matches the product specification will be possible, and may lead to effective R&D process that enables practical result in short period of few years.Next, what is the role of AIST in such new R&D process? In short, AIST can function as central innovation hub in such vertical collaboration. It is capable of creating innovation potential effectively and efficiently through interdisciplinary fusion because of the high number and density of researchers and wide spectrum of research fields. To find subjects that can be applied to product amongst the new technologies generated by interdisciplinary fusion, the industry-academia-government vertical collaboration project is effective as explained in this paper. As shown in Fig. 12, the process of quick technological transfer of innovative technology created by interdisciplinary fusion to product that has been set as clear goal using the industry-academia-government vertical collaboration scheme is an effective convergent R&D process that enables “shortening distance” to innovation. AIST functions as central innovation hub in this process.In this paper, it was demonstrated that convergent R&D process was successful in innovation of high-capacity high-power lithium secondary battery, which is key technology for HEV power source. In synthesiology of innovation where collaboration is assumed, there are two methods: (1) vertical collaboration development as convergence process where clear product goal is set and various elemental technologies are integrated, and (2) horizontal collaborative development as co-creation process where diverse new technology is created without setting clear product goal, as shown in Fig. 13. In the NEDO project for which Author was the R&D leader, there was clear goal of developing a specific product i.e. high-power high-capacity lithium secondary battery for HEV, in shortest time possible. Therefore, the former convergence process was employed, R&D was conducted under industry-academia-government vertical collaboration scheme that involved university and company, and quick realization of innovation potential was attempted through fusion of nanotech and energy fields. The convergence mechanism that effectively integrates elemental technology is most appropriate to achieve clear product goal in “shortest distance,” and it was actually possible to develop innovative high-power battery in short period.In conventional collaborative process, the idea of basic research from university is transferred to AIST, technological development is conducted right up to turn-over to industry such as measurement of performance and mass production process, and then technology is transferred from battery manufacturer to automakers. However, in such successive collaborative development, when the direction of R&D shifts according to the interest of the researchers at each Synthesiological method for innovation in R&D processHorizontal collaborationVertical collaborationConvergenceUniversityAISTCompany ACompany ACompany BCompany CCompany BCo-CreationFig. 13 Two-dimensional synthesiological method for innovation.(9)−

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