[Academia-Industry Alliance: Recent Trend].

Industry-academia Collaboration is an academic activity within academia(educational institutions such as universities, research institutes, etc.)formed to research and develop new technologies, create new businesses and knowledge, and recruit outsourcing human resources. There is a collaboration between an industry(a private company, a group that engages in broad commercial activities and links research and development directly to economic activity)and academia. Amidst the dramatic changes in the environment surrounding the goals of research and development of new technologies and the creation of new businesses, there are changes in what academia can do complementarily. We will outline the changes and current situation, including the efforts of the Tohoku University Hospital.