| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Many countries are promoting technological development through fostering elite higher education institutions. Particularly, developing countries such as China, etc. have undertaken national projects to establish world-class top universities with sufficient support funds, and to abruptly increase the annual rate of academic publishing. Five major countries in academic research, e.g., UK, France, Germany, USA and Japan, have been losing their share of academic publishing since the late of 1990's.
China, Korea, etc. show the highest economic increases in the world, and the top universities of those countries also show abrupt increase in their research activities, and have recently joined the ranks of top universities in the world. Those countries will soon be regarded among "the centers of learning" mentioned by Joseph Ben David. This tendency indicates the diffusion of "the centers of learning".
From the point of view of academic productivity, i.e., annual number of papers published in academic journals, developing countries, i.e., China and Korea, show much higher annual increase rates than that found by Price. The worldwide rate of increase in academic publishing is about 4.6% per year (doubling in every 15 years), while the rates for China and Korea are about 10% per year. On the other hand, already-advanced countries show rates around those of Price, or a little less.
The reasons for Chinese universities' explosive increase in research activities can be explained not only by increasing sufficient funds, but also by mergers with other smaller universities, and/or founding of new departments for advantages of scale.
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