Category: Science for Policy

Purposes and Objectives of the “Science for RE-designing Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciREX)” Program The Science for RE-designing Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciREX) program seeks to prepare, common to the entire program, scientific foundations for the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies when promoting science and technology innovation, and to realize mechanisms to democratically and effectively solve problems confronting society. The Science for RE-designing Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Steering Committee is discussing whether it is necessary to establish “appropriately implement policy options proposals” as an overarching objective for the entire program. “Policy options” refers to policies that might be adopted, which have been analyzed for their economic…

Purposes and Objectives of the Program to Create Hub Institutions for Fundamental Research and Human Resource Development At a time when countries face stringent fiscal circumstances, and given recent conditions under which establishing and efficiently pursuing targets concerning science and technology innovation policies that will be a source of growth and the foundation supporting social system reforms is a shared understanding among advanced countries, the purposes of the program to create hub institutions for fundamental research and human resource development are to lay the foundations for fostering the human resources who will be responsible for science and technology innovation policy, train (1)  high-level specialists who will be in charge of…