Divisions

The Corporate and International Relations Division promotes more varied and stronger collaborative research efforts by organically linking the research infrastructure and research results belonging to the Advanced Science Institute with other research organizations both inside and outside RIKEN. Such collaborative relations include cooperative links among the various centers within RIKEN, collaborative relationships with private industry aimed at promoting innovation and contributing to society, and international efforts with other institutes and universities worldwide. This Division makes the most of RIKEN’s strengths to stay on the forefront of world research in the natural sciences, and to promote a wide range of collaborative endeavors that will contribute to the development of society. These activities are aimed at the development of highly sophisticated levels of strategic research through consortiums, collaborative agreements with private industry, cooperative ventures (with matching funds), the formation of new research organs both inside and outside RIKEN and the lively exchange of research and other technical personnel.

The Advanced Technology Support Division is tasked with supporting research laboratories in a wide range of fields, designing and creating research equipment and materials, fabricating chemical, natural and biological materials and compounds and structures, and analyzing their surfaces and interfaces. The Division is also tasked with developing the sophisticated technology required by these responsibilities as well as the cultivation and training of personnel in those tasks, and the provision, operation and maintenance of precision measuring equipment for common use among the laboratories. It also actively supports collaborative use of large-scale facilities managed by RIKEN (such as the Harima Institute’s SPring-8 synchrotron and the NMR equipment at the Yokohama Institute) and cooperative ventures between other research institutes and organizations, both private and public.