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Round-table talks−216−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.5 No.3 (2012) researchers, however, such collaboration may have seemed to be mere side jobs. I think Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa thought that was not right. There must be solid soul and logic in the so-called applied research and it is an endeavor worth doing the best for researchers. This can be highlighted so that such researchers contribute more to society at the greatest levels. That was the passion poured into this journal.In the guidelines for submitting research papers to this journal, we ask the authors: to clearly set a research goal; to rationalize the relationship between the research goal and society or to state the social value of the research; to present a scenario to obtain the goal; to describe selected elemental technologies; to describe the relationships among the elemental technologies and the process by which they were integrated; and to self-evaluate the results and to discuss the future prospects. When tackling a complex issue that characterizes the present day, it is difficult to seek solutions within one technological discipline, and it is inevitable that technologies in diverse disciplines must become incorporated into the research. The motivation of research is realization of social value rather than academic curiosity. The solution obtained as a result of research is not necessarily unique, and there may be multiple equivalent solutions. Although some solutions might be better than others, that is not a matter of right or wrong.Our next issue is value evaluation of synthetic researches. How do we evaluate whether a certain synthetic research AkamatsuDr. Ishikawa states that in the intellectual production structure of the 21st century, there are the analytical method where “theory = truth” is established by the accumulation of experiments and logical evidences, and the synthetic method where highly original hypothesis is raised and the social value is created by verifying this hypothesis. Dr. Ishikawa also states that these two methods are not in contradiction but comprise a dual structure.I feel his statement matches the objectives of Synthesiology. Dr. Ono, can you give us an introduction to this journal?OnoIt is fully four years since the launch of Synthesiology. The journal is becoming recognized outside of AIST as well as within. Paper contributions from outside have been increasing.The necessity of “synthetic” and “integrating” method, not only analytical and reductionist method, is well recognized when conducting scientific and technological researches. However, I don’t think there have been systematic investigations on the particulars of how to conduct synthetic and integrated researches. AIST has emphasized the industry-academia-government collaboration since its days as the former Agency of Industrial Science and Technology. In the eyes of academically minded Creation of values and synthesisSynthesiology Editorial BoardProfessor Masatoshi Ishikawa of the University of Tokyo stated that the creation of new social value is necessary in addition to the analytical pursuit of truth. As the Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo from April 2004 to March 2006, he worked to develop a system for transferring highly original research results from academia to society. Professor Ishikawa, who practices such transfer that is also the aim of Synthesiology, discusses value creation and society with the former Editor-in-Chief Ono and Executive Editor Akamatsu.[Translation from Synthesiology, Vol.5, No.3, p.204-210 (2012)]Masatoshi IshikawaAkira OnoMotoyuki AkamatsuProfessor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of TokyoAIST [Editor, Synthesiology (former Editor-in-Chief)]AIST (Executive Editor, Synthesiology)Participants of the round-table Talk

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