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Part Promotion of Scientific Research

For the vigorous development of research activities corresponding to social demands, the systems of accepting financial resources from outside sources should be improved. Accepting and disbursing procedures should be made simpler and more flexible. Moreover, other means for promoting cooperation, such as information networks dealing with activities of university researchers as well as research demands of social and industrial sectors should be improved and expanded.

In recent years, governmental research institutes and research centers in private industry have tended to attach an increasing importance to basic research. As a result, their relations with universities are becoming closer than before. Research cooperation and the exchange of researchers among the institutions indifferent sectors should therefore be encouraged.