Integrated Innovation Strategy for JFY2018 (April 2018-March 2019) that will be the base for designing the JFY2019 Japanese Government STI programs and budget

. "Disruptive innovation" is developing worldwide, which has changed the innovation game structure.  How Japan should cope with this trend?



. Reviewing the Comprehensive Strategic Plan-2017, list up what are left unaccomplished and the actions to be taken in 2018.



. Getting out of ithe traditional and inflexible economic and social structures, form a society of a "comprehensive economic and social structure that has flexibility and autonomy" and build the "Society 5.0."



. Integrate various policies to enable a straight flow all the way from "basic research" through "commercialization or international development." 



. Establish a "Meeting to Promote Comprehensive Innovation Strategy" by summer 2018 to review and coordinate the STI programs across all the STI ministries.

. University reform

. Strategic R&D

. Environments to bear moonshots 

. Government's programs/budget to cause innovations

. STI for SDGs

. Japan's problem-solving models to the world 

. Consolidation of databases

. Base for open science

. Evidence-based policy making (EBPM)

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