Nihon University Business, Research and Intellectual Property Center

Nubic History

1998	November	International development center for industrial technology and business is established by Nihon University (predecessor to NUBIC).
1998	December	Officially recognized as one of the first TLOs in Japan (by the Ministries of Education and International Trade and Industry)
1999	February	Contract for technology licensing is executed (the first recognized TLO to sign such an agreement in Japan)
2003	June	Awarded "Minister Prize of Science and Technology Policy" at the second "Promotion of Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration" meeting.
	July	Adopted the MEXT policy of "Providing University Intellectual Property Headquarters".
	September	Former organization is renamed to become the Nihon University Business, Research and Intellectual Property Center (NUBIC).
2004	June	Adopted the METI policy of "Technology Licensing Organization Focused on Specific Area" (Super TLO).
2007	April	"JPO Intellectual Property Award" Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office Award
2008	June	Adopted the MEXT policy of "Project for the Strategic Development of Industry-University-Government Collaboration".
2010	April	Adopted the MEXT policy of "Program for Promoting Self-Sustained Management of Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration in Universities (Support-for-Functional-Reinforcement Model)"