2014 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 203-210
In the progress of globalization of societies and industries, activities based on global standards have become more important in various areas. In this situation, aggressive effort for drawing up international standards has become more important. In Japan, however, the importance of global standardization has not sufficiently recognized, and human resources who can draw up international standards have been shorthanded. Also, the education to produce human resources concerning with global standardization has been insufficient. In this paper, the current situation of the education for the global standardization is studied and analyzed. Next, based on books and literatures published so far, the significance of global standardization and the knowledge on the procedure at the organization, R&D including intellectual property right, business strategy, competitiveness in international market, negotiation, and conceptual ability are defined as knowledge congeries that should be studied by those who are in charge of global standardization. Then, a method to design the new interdisciplinary education program for graduate students and business people is explained. Furthermore, the progress of the lecture is reported, and the results of the questionnaires for students who are studying this education program are shown as a kind of evaluation of the program.
