Reforming Japan's science for the next century

Article Abstract:

Discussions with 60 Japanese academics, industrial scientists and administrators led to suggestions for how Japan should restructure its research effort in the 21st century. Several factors are currently troubling science in Japan: the influence of tradition and inefficient bureaucracy, the recession and the need for modernization and more basic research. Recommended reforms include a better coordinating mechanism for science and research, making some universities self-governing and entrusting the distribution of grants to an independent agency.

Research

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Semiprivate research: best of both worlds

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The Japan Key Technology Center (Japan Key-TEC) is leading the development of a new type of semiprivate research institute in Japan. Japan Key-TEC receives funding from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), the Japanese Development Bank and private industry to foster cooperation in research by the government, the universities and private companies. The MITI's Protein Engineering Research Institute and MPT's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute are examples.

Research institutes, Corporations, Corporations, Japanese

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RIKEN - Japan's leading light

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The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Wako, Japan, has used its autonomy to establish a reputation for excellence that distinguishes it from among the country's other government-supported research institutes. Although RIKEN gets the bulk of its funding from the Science and Technology Agency, it gets enough money from elsewhere to maintain a relative independence. RIKEN has expanded by establishing life science and photodynamics research centers and by initiating the Frontier Research Program.

Management, Japan. Institute of Physical and Chemical Research

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