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AIST was reestablished through the integration of fifteen research institutes under the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry. After the integration, aiming to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society, AIST has advanced R&D by engaging in Full Research, which means concurrent and coherent research from the basic stage to product realization. AIST has also implemented original efforts to present the research outcomes to our society. Upon such endeavors, we at AIST are now making our best efforts to carry through the Third Medium Term Plan.In the Third Term (2010-2014), we will undertake R&D focusing on major goals of “solution for the 21st century issues” and “reinforcing functions of an open innovation hub,” based on our efforts and achievements in the First Term (2001-2004) and the Second Term (2005-2009).For solving “the 21st century issues,” AIST promotes the R&D that leads to “Green Innovation” and “Life Innovation” comprised in the New Growth Strategy advocated by the Japanese government. Humankind has greatly benefited from the development of science, technology, and industry, while, on the other hand, we have had to face new issues such as of environment, resources, and ethics. We have to attain well balanced development, with awareness of such 21st century issues, without simply expanding markets and pursuing conveniences. The R&D during the Third Term of AIST will initiate and support such efforts.For “reinforcing functions of an open innovation hub,” AIST promotes industry-academia-government collaboration, by positively putting AIST’s “human resources” and “research facilities” into service to advance R&D, technology evaluation, and standardization. AIST has been active in collaboration with universities, public research institutes, and industry on a one-to-one basis or in consortiums, and in joint researches or database construction and sharing, and it will also participate in more open, positive and large-scale collaborations such as “technology research associations”. By 2011, AIST has joined 16 such associations, and it is also promoting “Tsukuba Innovation Arena” as large-scale collaboration of AIST.More than a year has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Although AIST was also affected with some damages, the research activities have been revitalized as a result of reconstructing research systems at an early stage. Furthermore, construction of the research and development center for renewable energy, one of the recovery measures from the earthquake, will be undertaken this year. The architectural design of the center will be finished within this year and the construction will begin next year. There will not only be spaces for laboratories to perform various experiments, for exchange of technology, and human resource development in the facility, but it will also be a highly autonomous and energy saving construction adapting solar power generation, air-conditioning using geothermal heat energy, and natural lighting. We are expecting the facility to be the center where various researchers and engineers from research institutions, universities and industry at home and abroad gather to challenge the innovation of science and technology for renewable energy. Industry in Japan is under 6 adversities of strong yen, high corporate tax, delay of trade liberalization, labor regulations, control of green house gases and power shortage, and AIST will contribute to energy savings/resource savings through our research activities. We at AIST who support domestic industry in Japan are also determined to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society by accomplishing our own missions under the motto “Full Research in Society, for Society,” and by actively responding to new demands.National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)April 2012PresidentTamotsu NomakuchiToward a Sustainable SocietyーAIST opens a new era to achieve its Third Medium Term Goalsー02Organization and Outline

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