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Empirical study of the funding and performance of academic research activities in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12800006
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Special Purposes

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research InstitutionUniversity of TSUKUBA

Principal Investigator

YAMAMOTO Shin'ichi  University of TSUKUBA, Professor, 教育学系, 教授 (10220469)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KOBAYASHI Shin'ichi  University of TSUKUBA, Associate Professor, 社会工学系, 助教授 (90186742)
ONO Hiroyuki  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 工学部, 教授 (00176968)
IWASAWA Yasuhiro  University of TOKYO, Professor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 教授 (40018015)
KATO Takeshi  University of TSUKUBA, Assistant Professor, 社会工学系, 講師 (10233800)
SUZUKI Hisatoshi  University of TSUKUBA, Professor, 社会工学系, 教授 (10108219)
小田切 宏之  一橋大学, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (40114053)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥11,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥9,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000)
Keywordsacademic policy / Research enviroment / innovation system / multi-funding / イノベーションシステム / イノベーション・システム / 学術のグローバル化 / 学際研究
Research Abstract

This study project first discuss structure and dynamics of academic research activity. Based on the discussion, we have focused on the structural major trends toward the borderless academic research activities to design questionnaire. These trends are featured by 1. globalisation of academic research activities, 2. devoured to national innovation system, 3. collaboration to multi-disciplinary approach. Another important point is the comparability on some basic statistics of Japanese academic research activity with our former research results carried out in 1998 to design questionnaire.
15518 samples of university professors and associate professors from University in Japan are chosen randomly and the questionnair package was sent. During the survey period of the march 2002, 2513 questionnairs were returned.
Main findings from the analysis of this data are as follows ;
1) Concentration of reserch funds ; About 60% of all research funds are distributed to only top 5% reserchers. On the othe … More r hand, the amount of research funds has increased about 30% in recent 3-years. The increasing trend is common to all deciles.
2) Public sector centered multi funding ; With the increae in the amount of research grant from private sector and with the foundation of many governmental programs supporting academic research activities in addition to KAKENHI (Grants-in-aid for scientific research), multi-funding system has fulfilled in the past decade in Japan. These research funds are often granted to the same laboratory at one time, and the public program plays a central role in these aposteriori joint funding.
3) Maintenance cost and lack of supporting staff ; In many cases, cost of maintenance of equipments essencial for research activities is not appropriate. Many professors are suffered from this situation and also from the lack of supporting staff.
4) Borderless academic research activities ; The members of a research group are extended over other affiliations, academic disciplines private sector and research activities have become global. The higher the academic activity level is, the more borderless one's research activity is. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • 2000 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2001-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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