Tohoku University's Micro System Integration Center was formed to create scientific and technological innovations in the domain of advanced integration, working under the aegis of the Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology program of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The center houses two primary organizations: the Micro System Integration R&D Division (Principal Investigator: Takahito Ono), currently embarked on a ten-year plan launched in 2007, and the Micro System Integration R&D Group (Core researcher: Masayoshi Esashi), embarked on four-year mission under the World-Leading Innovative R&D Support program. The former organization collaborates with some some15 companies in an industrial-academic partnership to develop high-value-added integrated MEMS technology using “shared wafers” and other methods. The latter organization works with AIST and other institutions to conduct industry-connected R&D, pursuing projects such as heterointegration, our prototype laundromat, and our massively parallel electron-beam lithography apparatus. In all of these programs, the goals are many-fold: to collaborate with a wide variety of companies, to use our university's accumulated wealth of technological skills and expertise in the field of microsystem research to achieve practical, real-world successes, to cultivate a generation of skilled researchers, to find a way beyond the economic bottlenecks that have begun to hamper progress in integrated circuit technology, to find practical applications for technologies in a wide variety of fields, and to strengthen Japan's industrial competitiveness. In the future we will continue to strengthen our collaborations in many ways, and we hope that our Micro System Integration R&D Center will continue to make valuable contributions to science, technology, and industry.