Abstract: Our society is facing the problems of population aging and nursing staff shortage at present. In order to save the “Aging China”, many policies have been promulgated in recent years to promote the research, development, and application of service robots in the field of nursing. Based on the theory of Japan's “Industry-government-university” Collaborative Innovation, the research investigates the innovative practices of FUJISOFT Corporation's nursing robot PALRO by constructing the model of “industry-government-university” cooperative innovation. The results show: (1) In the aspect of knowledge creation, NEDO creates PALRO's intelligent modules by constructing an Open Innovation Platform. This platform integrates the related innovation resources in industries, governments, and universities. (2) In the aspect of knowledge sharing and transferring, NEDO first chooses the basic and universal intelligent modules as the joint research object. Secondly, the functions and standards of each intelligent module are determined and guaranteed. Finally, it aims at the application and promotion of standardized intelligent modules. (3) In the aspect of knowledgebased entrepreneurship, developing PALRO robot into three series of scientific research, commercial and domestic robot and developing new Palmi robot are the main forms of entrepreneurship adopted by FUJISOFT Corporation on the basis of mobile function module and communication function module technology. On this basis, this research proposes policies and suggestions for the development of China's nursing robot industry from the three dimensions of “knowledge creation”, “knowledge sharing and transferring”, and “knowledgebased entrepreneurship”.

Key words: Japan's “industry-government-university” cooperative innovation, the model of “industry-government-university” cooperative innovation, innovation platform, the nursing robot “PALRO”