Annual Report on the Promotion of Science and Technology 1999[Part1 Chapter3 Section1]

In response to the Science and Technology Basic Law, the Science and Technology Basic Plan sets the basic direction of R&D promotion as the active promotion of basic research and the vigorous promotion of R&D that responds to societal and economic needs, such as the following.

- R&D for science and technology that contributes to the expansion of economic frontiers, the actualization of an advanced socioeconomic infrastructure, and the creation of original, innovative technology that helps create new industries or achieve new breakthroughs in information and telecommunications, for instance
- R&D that helps solve global problems, such as those relating to the environment, foodstuffs, energy, and resources.
- R&D for science and technology that responds to public needs and helps actualize a society where all can enjoy peace of mind and spiritual affluence by maintaining and improving health, preventing and curing disease, preventing disasters, and solving various other problems.

However, scientific and technological goals that warrant national priority are not always made clear. In followup to the Basic Plan, one issue - in addition to the promotion of basic research - cited as requiring future attention was the need to define understandable scientific and technological goals for national issues and to make strategic and prioritized efforts to achieve those goals.

- Using plain goals to indicate what is achievable with science and technology
- Defining important R&D areas where those goals are to be achieved
- Prioritizing the investment of R&D resources in those important R&D areas


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