Part 1 Using Knowledge to Create Society and Economy for a New Era
Chapter 2 In the Era of Mega-Competition for Knowledge
Section 3 International Competition and Cooperation
2. International Strategies in Government
To increase own country's competitiveness, competition not only
at a product technology and manufacturing technology level, but at the lower
level of research environments and research management is becoming important.
It is difficult for a single country to cover all aspects of today's advanced
research and development of science and technology, so countries need to develop
research environments that attract information and human resources. It is therefore
necessary for countries' innovation systems to give due consideration to international
harmonization, while making the most of Japan's originality.
In addition, policies for the protection and utilization of
intellectual property, such as patents, are important to create innovations from
the achievements of research and development, but if there is a difference between
the scope and degree of the protection in different countries, it may be the
case that appropriate competition does not occur. International cooperation is
required to ensure that the intellectual property systems of individual countries
are well-balanced.
