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Throughout 1980's, Japanese science and technology policy was focused on promoting the basic research in the public sector, and encouraging the private sector to go into more basic fields instead of development of improved products. In fact, the annual expenditure for the basic research increased by 50 per cent during ten years since 1988. However, after the end of the "bubble economy", the outcome from the investment in the basic research has been seriously questioned. While the shares of Japanese papers and their citations in the scientific journals have increased by about 2 points, contribution to creation of new technologies fell short o expectation. The present paper discusses reasons for this situation and points out strategic inconsistencies in both the government and industry. Strengthening the competitiveness of Japan in the coming decade necessitates in a new mechanism to develop appropriate strategies for promising results already accumulated.
研究・技術計画学会の論文
1999-11-25