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Report : Knowledge for interdisciplinary consilience−179−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.3 No.2 (2010) subject is nature. Unknown phenomena are analyzed by observations, experiments, and theoretical calculations, factual knowledge is accumulated, and then universal laws and theories are built. It corresponds to the pure basic research. The researches are normally conducted within one discipline; it is rare that it stretches across several different disciplines. The researches are driven by researcher’s academic curiosity.• Type 2 Basic Research: This is a research where societal value is sought by synthesizing and integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines. Knowledge of what research should be done is accumulated and the methodology is built. It is a similar type with the objective basic research and application research. The researches are driven by the researcher’s desire to realize some societal values.• Product Realization Research: This is a research to actually put a new technology in use in society by utilizing results and knowledge obtained from the above two types of researches and actual experiences. This type of research corresponds to the developmental research. The researches are driven by the will of researcher who wishes to actualize research results in society.1 IntroductionThe science has a great history that it advanced dramatically since the 17th century using the method of reductionism. It has been recognized, however, in the 21st century that this method alone will not be able to address the complex issues such as the global environments. In the 20th century, the technology has greatly advanced through the backup of the science while it is clear that the technology did not advance on reductionism alone.While the opposing relationships such as science for recognition vs. science for design, analytical method vs. synthetic or integrating method, or science vs. engineering are being discussed, we are witnessing recent pursuits of new sciences that are different from reductionism.In this lecture, we will focus on the role of synthetic or integrating method, comparing with analytical method, in the basic research of science and technology. The importance of synthetic method is indicated in the process of basic research to create societal values, and a methodology of such synthetic research is discussed. Also, a new form of writing an original research paper is presented to describe the processes and contents of such synthetic research. The methodology of synthetic research presented here has been discussed in the practice of Full Research or Type 2 Basic Research at AIST since 20011). The new form for papers has been actually deployed in Synthesiology, a new scientific journal launched by AIST in 20082).2 New methodology for basic researchResearches are often categorized into the basic research, the application research, and the development research. Here, we categorize them into the following three types.• Type 1 Basic Research: This is a research whose A. Ono and M. Akamatsu (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)This paper is a draft of the lecture presented at the special session of the 3rd Conference of the Transdisciplinary Federation of Technology and Science on December 4, 2009. It is reproduced with the permission of TFST.Abstract - A new method and processes are provided for synthetic researches integrating elemental technologies to realize societal values. The synthetic researches are characterized in comparison to the analytical researches and are modeled in the cycling processes among society, researchers and academic communities. A new description framework is given to writing original scientific papers of the synthetic researches. It is now demonstrated by the publication of a new scientific journal, Synthesiology, for the synthetic researches.Synthesiology: The method and description of synthetic researchesIndex terms - Synthetic research, method, description, type two basic research, synthesiology[Translation from Synthesiology, Vol.3, No.2, p.164-168 (2010)]Fig. 1 Method of Type Two Basic Research Type 1 BasicResearchSelection,settingIntegration, synthesisAnalysisFractal structureScenario-drivenResearch goal(parts)Research goal(parts)Type 2 BasicResearchNature, artifactSocial valueElementaltechnology αElementaltechnology βElementaltechnology bElementaltechnology γElementaltechnology cElementaltechnology δ Elementaltechnology dResearch goal(products)Elementaltechnology a

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