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Round-table talks : Creation of values and synthesis−221−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.5 No.3 (2012) the research organization depending on time and content. Therefore, push-pull management is necessary. In nurturing the culture and developing the policy-driven evaluation, the organizational management style that alternates between push and pull is necessary.Companies, universities, and AIST must team up for human resource trainingOnoThe human resource training is one of the missions of AIST. However, I hear that few students continue on to the doctorate course.IshikawaIt may be helpful if the universities and AIST form a team and set a certain career path. We’ll be scolded if we say there is a highway directly from the University of Tokyo to AIST, but perhaps a country road will be okay.The reason the excellent master’s course students of the University of Tokyo do not go on to the doctorate course is because there are many places that provide high salaries and good jobs to people with masters only, like foreign companies, for example. The activities of the foreign countries are extremely aggressive and they are quick to evaluate. When our research result appears in the newspaper, the first to contact us are the foreign companies. Before, the calls came from Koreans, but the other day, a Japanese who transferred from a Japanese company showed up. I think the outflow of excellent, experienced engineers and researchers who have supported Japan, as well as young people, is a serious problem. We must see that here also lies a problem of evaluation. Even the large Japanese companies started as ventures. I think we are at a stage where we should not regard Apple, Google, and Facebook as the rich on the other shore. I hope there will be more people who will think hard about how to create values that can face up to such companies.Government’s organization design for value creationAkamatsuIs the national policy changing?IshikawaThe Project for Creating Start-ups from Advanced Research and Technology (START) started from FY2012 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). This is a project where the government offers a place to bring in risk money and allow active challenges, so the research results of the universities can be linked to social values. As a policy, success is the goal, but as it can be seen from bringing in risk money, the risk of “justifiable failure” will be absorbed within the mechanism. The MEXT personnel says, “This is a challenge for MEXT.” It is very fresh to hear the MEXT personnel use these words, and I think it is innovative.Considering the interface with industry, I think we are taking in too much demand of industry. The demand of industry is the demand of now. As soon as the demands of industry are gathered and declaration is made that the important policy for Japan is to incorporate such demands, Japan will be trying to catch up, and we will dive right into researches that merely improve the current situation. Of course, improvements are necessary, but for policies to create the future, the government must take risks. How the government can manage the risks is in question. Here, you can replace the word “government” with METI or AIST. I think building the structure that allows the government to take risks is a matter of ideas. It is a matter of design as stated by Dr. Yoshikawa. Unless this structure is included, the research organization in the future will be working only on improvement research.OnoCertainly, a new technology may be the technology that may crush the current companies. The difference is whether such a technology emerges from one’s own company or somebody else’s. Ideally, the technology must come out of your own company, but because self-destruction is scary, one falls into the way of thinking that there is no demand. When the company loses its vitality, it starts accepting the current situation, and the power to change weakens.Changing the subject a little I work in the field of standardization. There I am often asked “to develop international standards that back up the current Japanese technology.” That is not quite right. We should develop standards needed by the world in the future, and Japanese industries must quickly adapt to that. However, there are still many people with attitudes that accept the status quo, and I think this is a problem to be addressed.IshikawaFor standard, I think you need the courage “to change.” Occasionally, the organization must also have the courage “not to change.” Various forms of courage are necessary to change a culture. In the atmosphere of no change, one needs the courage to change, and in the atmosphere of change, one needs the courage not to change. I think the point is to appropriately select and develop what are necessary and unnecessary for the creative culture, by capturing the social demand.AkamatsuI wish our journal will contribute to building this culture. By combining the system building, I hope we can build something for Japan as a whole.

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