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III, Results of Research

(1) Estimating the market size of the prototyping industry

2,Extent of "outsourcing" by universities

We can assume that the main parts of the prototyping orders by universities are paid from the research budget of a science department such as Engineering, Medical, Pharmaceutical or Agricultural Studies, but there is no means available in the public domain to obtain the total amounts of these expenditures.
Thus, for this research by questionnaire we selected the top 50 schools in the order of size (enrollment) from the 250 four-year universities across the country that have science departments, and asked them about "research expense funded from the outside" such as scientific research funds, scholarship donations, contract research funds, joint research funds, etc., as well as the rough estimate of "outsourcing costs" that are assumed to become the subject as part of prototyping in the broad sense.
Judging from the results of the research by questionnaire, we can estimate the "research expense funded from the outside" of the top 50 schools, including the 25 universities that answered the questionnaire, to be approximately \330 billion.
Additionally, we calculate the ratio of outsourcing costs to research expense funded from the outside to be an average of approximately 5.1%.
Given the above, we can estimate the extent of outsourcing in the R&D expense of the top 50 universities with science departments to be approximately \16.9 billion.
Because this research was limited to the top schools in terms of enrollment, we tried to estimate the outsourcing costs for all universities in Japan by using the most current available national statistics.
According to the "Report of the Research on Science and Technology Studies" by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the "received research expense" from the outside funds by universities nationwide (including two-year colleges and research laboratories attached to universities) was approximately \451 billion in 2003. By applying the aforementioned outsourcing ratio (5.1%), we can estimate the outsourcing costs of all the universities with science department to be approximately \23 billion annually.

Reference:
Different Received Research Expense for Each Field of Study

Source: 2003 "Report of the Research on Science and Technology Studies" by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

Top 50 universities with science departments

The extent of "outsourcing" by universities with science departments
[Results of the questionnaires]

Note: "Approx." is omitted.

Note 1)

While the research targets are universities with science departments, we looked for answers with externally funded research expenses for the entire university, either with or without a department of liberal arts or science.

[Estimating the extent of outsourcing by the top universities (by enrollment) with science departments]

[The extent of outsourcing by all universities and attached research laboratories in Japan]

Note 2)

The estimate of the externally funded research expense of all universities with science departments in Japan is a statistical value based on the 2003 "Report of the Research on Science and Technology Studies" by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and　Communications.

[Externally funded research expense]
Total \450 billion

Table of Contents

I, Purpose and Method of Research

II, Summary of Research Report

III, Results of Research

(1)Estimating the market size of the prototyping industry
|_ 1,Estimating the extent of "outsourcing" by large companies
|_ 2,Extent of "outsourcing" by universities

(2) Prediction of promising fields for the prototyping industry
|_ 1,The current situation of outsourcing
    -1,Utilization
    -2,Contents of outsourced orders
|_ 2,Outlook for Outsourcing
    -1,Prospect for increased outsourcing
    -2,Predicted contents of outsourcing
    -3,Expected outsourcing of "prototyping"

(3)Conditions for promoting orders to make prototypes
|_ 1,The critical points for clients in selecting contractors for outsourcing
|_ 2,Methods of selecting contractors
|_ 3,Methods by which trust is granted [to contractors]
|_ 4,Issues

Important factors in selecting contractors
(weighted-average values)

Methods of selecting outside contractors

Trust granted to outside contractors

Issues when increasing outsourcing

IV,Potential for promoting the prototyping industry

V,Suggestions for promotion of the prototyping industry

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