Katsuhiko Sato, Chairman of the Academic Subcommittee of the Science and Technology Council, issued a statement calling for the achievement of 1% of government R & D investment as a percentage of GDP for the sustainable development of academic research and the production of outstanding results.As academic research in Japan is declining relatively, urgent recovery is needed.
According to the statement, Chairman Sato praised Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2016, and Japanese researchers for the third consecutive year, demonstrating the high standard of academic research in Japan. However, he pointed out that Dr. Osumi's research was the result of research in the 3s.
On top of that, in recent years, Japanese academic research has been on a relative downward trend in terms of the number of published papers and the number of citations of papers, and it is possible that they will be buried in the international competition for science and technology.
As the research period decreased, individual researchers rushed to achieve results in a short period of time, and analyzed the current situation that there are fewer cases of challenging unknown fields with bold ideas from a long-term perspective.
To overcome this, the government has achieved a government R & D investment of 5 trillion yen in 26 years, achieving 1% of GDP, as well as granting operating expenses to national universities and increasing private school subsidies to private universities. Asked to do.
Furthermore, we are calling on research institutes such as universities to continue their efforts to solve academic research issues.
