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34Open InnovationInnovation Promotion Department The Innovation Promotion Department cooperates with related departments in the Open Innovation Promotion Headquar-ters under the following mission with the aim of maximizing research and development (R&D) achievements.• Promote eicient and eective R&D by making eective use of external research resources through collaborative research, commissioned research, and funded research with the aim of contributing to enhancing collaboration among government, industry, and academia.• Promote open innovation by implementing R&D achievements in society through appropriate securing and eective use of intellectual property and eective standardization activities in collaboration with government, industry, and academia. Promotion of collaborative re-search with companies, univer-sities, public research institu-tions, etc.In addition to ordinary collaborative re-search, NICT promotes “funded collabora-tive research” in which NICT accepts the provision of research expenses from the collaborator. NICT also contributes to en-hancing collaboration among government, industry, and academia through research based on external research funding such as competitive funds.Promotion of researcher exchang-es with outside institutions NICT promotes researcher exchanges for mutual cooperation with universities and other institutions in diverse areas in the information and communication field. Tabletop Glasses-free 3D DisplayOrganic EO Polymer MaterialMultilingual TranslationType: Researcher/corporate collaborationTechnology transfer: To electronics manu-facturersSummary: Development of a glasses-free 3D display for displaying three-dimensional images on a curved screen. Enables more realistic 3D display by increasing light beam density by 3.5 times and enhancing the float-ing sensation. This glasses-free 3D display enables 360-degree viewing of 3D images by multiple users from each viewpoint.Type: Researcher/corporate collaborationTechnology transfer: To chemical manu-facturersSummary: Organic EO polymer material is a promising material for achieving new optical devices featuring both high-speed and low-power-consumption properties. To pro-mote the development of optical devices using this material and create a supply of polymers for organic EO compounds whose technology has already been transferred, the technology for this organic EO polymer ma-terial was transferred to two chemical manu-facturers.Type: Researcher/corporate collaborationTechnology transfer: To translation technolo-gy development companies Summary: NICT’s high-accuracy speech rec-ognition, translation, and speech synthesis technologies can be used in diverse areas including tourism, commercial complexes, and healthcare as an app on smartphones and other devices. The number of supported lan-guages is being expanded to 31. Applicable to companies needing a translation system, pat-ent/document translation companies, etc.Electrical signal VoiceTra screenshotLanguage selection screenFig.1 : Examples of technology transfers in FY2017 Research and Development