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Finance: KAKENHI Grants, Donation Income and Industry-Academia Collaboration Income

Note

  1. About KAKENHI Funding:
    • Allocating agencies use informal grants as their criteria for Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    • The following are excluded: Incentive Research, Special Fellowship, International Collaborative Research Acceleration Fund (to develop research after returning to Japan), and the Research Results Publication Promotion Fund
    • Amounts are rounded to the nearest million yen; therefore, totals may not match exactly
    • Donation income includes funds for endowed chairs
  2. About KAKENHI research category:
    • Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)：Newly Established Research Categories in 2020
    • Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B)：Newly Established Research Categories in 2020
    • Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research：Suspension of the Newly Adopted Projects since 2017
    • Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists：Publicly Offered Since in FY2018,it has been renamed from "Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (B)"
    • Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (A)：Suspension of the Newly Adopted Projects since 2018
    • Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (B)：After its publicly offered Since in FY2018, it was renamed the "Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists"
    • Fund for the promotion of joint international research: fostering joint international research：Publicly Offered Since in FY2023,it has been renamed from "Fund for the promotion of joint international research: fostering joint international research A"
    • Fund for the promotion of joint international research: international collaborative research：Publicly Offered Since in FY2023,it has been renamed from "Fund for the promotion of joint international research: fostering joint international research B"
    • Fund for the promotion of joint international research: international leading Research：Newly Established Research Categories in 2023
    • Criteria for provisional grant decisions by the funding agencies
    • Amounts are rounded to the nearest thousand yen
  3. Among the 1,377 participating institutions, the top 10 are ranked for various categories.
  4. Percentage of Early-Career Scientists refers to the percentage of selected projects in which researchers under the age of 40 were selected.
  5. Kyushu University Fund

    The Kyushu University Fund was established with the generous contributions made through the University’s Centennial Anniversary Fundraising Project. Its purpose is to support and further enhance the environments for education, research, and clinical practice at Kyushu University, in order to promote research activities that make genuine contributions to humanity and society. With the aim of leading the knowledge sought by the world and humankind, Kyushu University strives to build a base that will “open a new century of knowledge” as an academic leader in an increasingly globalized world. Through this Fund, the University seeks to further advance high-quality higher education supported by people around the world, and to serve as a hub for the pursuit, creation, and dissemination of better knowledge. Kyushu University Fund website: https://kikin.kyushu-u.ac.jp/

  6. Figures include income for classes maintained through donations.
  7. Inter-university comparison: A comparison among the ten designated National University Corporations. The received amount per faculty member is calculated by dividing the total amount received by the number of faculty members.

References

  • Data held by Research, Industry-University-Government Collaboration Promotion Division (～2020)
  • Kyushu University Information, each year
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) website, “Allocation of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research”, each year
  • Summary of each university and integrated report, each year
  • National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education, Basic Information on Universities, each year. https://portal.niad.ac.jp/ptrt/table.html
  • MEXT, Industry-University Collaboration at Universities, Individual Results (Data by Institution), each year