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Services Sciences, Management and Engineering
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) sponsored study group, "Services Innovation Study Group,"hosted the Services Innovation Symposium on the topic of Japanese economic growth through collaboration among industry, academia and government. Some 60 persons from academia, government and industry joined the symposium.
Services Innovation Study Group reported result of their discussion and research work on services innovation in the past 5 months. There were active discussions and exchange of opinions throughout the symposium which were reflected in the challenges and recommendations put together and announced by METI at the end of the symposium. Highlights of the challenges and recommendations are as follows:
Services innovation promotion challenges
- separation of personal element and structural element
- globalization of services businesses
- collage education curriculum reform
- improvement in efficiency and high added-value of services
- finding needs that latescent in various ways
- integration of manufacturing industry and services industry
Policy challenges for national innovation system development
- foster talent to take on services innovation
- services innovation R&D
- services innovation tools
- integration of product technologies and services
- need of open innovation system
- need of academic society & comprehensive, integrated platform
Establishment of "Services Innovation Forum"
- Knowledge creation, which is the core of innovation, is important to generate services innovation
- It is necessary to develop scientific approach methods to systematically create services innovation (services science). In the past, services innovation depended on idea and scheme of individuals.
- Academia and industry must collaborate to establish a science and technology development structure (industry-university collaboration platform = services innovation platform)
- The same level of government support is necessary for the forum as the government has supported manufacturing industry's R&D.
Industry, academia and government come together to promote services innovation
- Services Innovation Forum will be supported by both government's R&D activity support as well as industry-university joint projects.
- Industry, academia and government come together to promote services innovation through Services Innovation Forum to:
- work on education activities
- foster talent who will support innovation
- work on basic research
- integrate broad academic fields including social science
- establish services innovation as an academic discipline/science
- recommend new research fields
- find social need
- validate effectiveness of basic research at the site
- design a program where private sector can demonstrate creativity
Services Innovation Study Group members:
- Toshiaki Ikoma, Director-General, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Tamio Arai, Department of Precision Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
- Ikuo Ebino, Vice President, Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
- Katsuhiko Kaji, Director, Information Service Industries Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Akio Kameoka, Vice President, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Kazushi Kuse, Director, IBM Japan
- Ken Senoh, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
- Takashi Nanya, Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
- Kunihiko Niwa, Senior Fellow, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Masahiro Hashimoto, Director, Service Industries Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Yoshinori Fujikawa, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University
- Ryuhei Wakasugi, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Services Innovation Symposium contents in Japanese are available at:
(URL to come soon)
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