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MESSAGES FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARDThere has been a wide gap between science and society. Over three hundred years of the history in modern science indicates us that a number of research results disappeared or took long time to become useful in society. Due to the difficulty to bridge this gap, it has been recently called the valley of death or the nightmare stage (Note 1). Rather than passively waiting, therefore, researchers and engineers who understand the potential of the research should be active.To bridge the gap, technology integration (i.e. Type 2 Basic Research − Note 2), in addition to analytical research, has been one of the wheels (i.e. Full Research − Note 3). These technology integration research activities have been kept as personal know-how, however. They have not been formalized as universal knowledge. Traditional journals, on the other side, have been collecting a lot of analytical type knowledge and establishing many scientific disciplines (i.e. Type 1 Basic Research − Note 4). As there are common theories, principles, and practices in the methodologies of technology integration, we regard it as basic research. This is the reason why we have decided to publish “Synthesiology”, a new academic journal. Synthesiology is a coined word combining “synthesis” and “ology”. Synthesis which has the origin in Greek means integration. Ology is a suffix attached to scientific disciplines.Each paper in this journal will present scenarios toward societal value, identify elemental knowledge and/or technologies to be integrated, and describe procedures and processes of integration for the goal. Through publishing papers on this journal, researchers and engineers can enhance the capacity to transform scientific outputs into the prosperity and make technical contribution to the sustainable development. This could increase the significance of research activities in society.At the end, we expect your active contributions of papers on technology integration to the journal.“Synthesiology” Editorial Board −77−Synthesiology Vol.1 No.1(2008)

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