The problems that occurred between Large-Scale R&D and Regional Development

―A Confusion of Accountabilities―

Abstract

  ILC (International Linear Collider) is an international collaboration project which is designed to find out what happened at the beginning of the universe. On the other hand, ILC project is a central core of several projects for regional development in Iwate prefecture. However, this kind of regional development has been criticized as inappropriate from the perspective of autonomy.

  This article describes the structure of the problems that occurred at the contact point between a large-scale research and development and a regional development. This structure is identified by explanation of some projects and discourses of relevant bodies (central government, Iwate prefecture, and scientists) with reference to a history of regional development in Japan, spontaneous development theory, concepts of dependence and independence, and framing in the policy process. This article also focuses on a confusion of accountabilities caused by that structure.