Professor Kazuo Nishimura of the Research Center for Computational Social Sciences, Kobe University, and Dai Miyamoto of the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University have seen that the number of patent applications for the generation who received a generous education during the three years of junior high school has decreased compared to other generations. It was clarified by a survey by Professor Tadashi Yagi.
According to Kobe University, the research group conducted a questionnaire survey of people engaged in research and development in Japan, analyzed the number of patent applications by age surveyed in 2016 and 2020, and Yutori Education gave the number of patent applications to the number of patent applications. I searched for the influence.
As a result, in 2020, the generation under 51 years old who received science and mathematics education on "comfort," "new academic ability," and "zest for life" in junior high school will have more R & D results such as the number of patent applications than the previous generation. It was found that there was a correlation between the number of patent applications and the number of hours of science in junior high school.
In recent years, Japanese scientists have received the Nobel Prize one after another, but the winners are the generation who received science and mathematics education before Yutori education.Currently, the number of patent applications by country is far behind that of the United States and China, and the number of publications of natural science papers has decreased, making it one of the top in the world.
The research group said that the negative effects of Yutori education were reflected in the number of patent applications, and it is doubtful that young Japanese scientists will continue to receive the Nobel Prize at the same pace as before.
Paper information:[Humanities & Social Sciences Communications] Japan's R & D capabilities have been decimated by reduced class hours for science and math subjects
