specialty: Science and Technology Policy; Research and Technology Analysis
education and career:
After obtaining an MSc, (Engineering) at the University of Tokyo (1968), he conducted research at Studiengruppe fuer Systemforschung in Heidelberg from 1970 to 1975 and received a Dr. Phil. in the School of Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Heidelberg in 1975. He held a faculty appointment as Associate Professor in the Institute of Socio-economic Planning, Tsukuba University, from 1975 to 1992 and a joint appointment as Director-in-Research of the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy from 1988 to 1990. He held a faculty appointment as Professor in the Graduate School of Policy Science from 1992 and in this Institute from 1997.
current research interests:
In order to clarify what science and technology policy should be, he has investigated science and technology policy and the related organisations in selected countries. In this context, he has made a trial of the systematising of the science and technology policy's goals in the Engineering Academy of Japan. In the field of research and technology analysis, after developing and verifying the Science and Technology Development Cycle Model, he is applying it to some developing countries, and analysing an evolutionary process of R&D out-sourcing by Japanese manufacturing industry to test some hypotheses.
