Organization for Research Initiative and Promotion

Organization for Research Initiative and Promotion, established on the 1st of April 2018, aims to further improve the research capabilities of our university by strengthening the functions of the research environment for the effective and creative execution of individual research activities from basic research to practical application research conducted by researchers at Tottori University, and at the same time to return the benefit of research results to society.

Currently, it is composed of 6 departments, and in order to achieve the above objectives, we will carry out the following tasks.

• Operations related to the investigations and analyses concerning academic research in our university, planning and designing of the medium & long-term research strategies as well as the implementation of research facilities.
• Operations related to developing the research seeds of original research, exploratory basic research, and fusion research implemented by intra-college collaboration as well as
• the promotion of research projects.
• Operations related to the investigation, planning, internal and external surveys, and support related to obtaining external research funds.
• Operations related to the promotion of research alliance among industry, government, and academia, the creation of the intellectual property as well as acquisition and utilization of intellectual property rights.
• Operations related to the utilization of university-wide shared research equipment and the safety management in the research activities.
• Operations related to the education and training of experimental analysis techniques, technology services, and analysis request.
• Management of project related to systematic industry-academia collaboration.
• Research and development of unused biological resources, organization of their research system, and their social implementation.