Abstract
A task for The Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management is to view the interrelationships between science, technology and human organization, as well as their evolution as a total process, in terms of research management and science policy. The modern science does not aim at approaching the ultimate truth as did the science in the Renaissance era. It consists rather of incessant self-reorganization based on short-lived hypotheses for problem solving. This "research" feature is characteristic to the modern science as distinguished from "Renaissance" or "mechanistic" type of science in the past. Any organization dealing with science and technology should, therefore, have not only a "mechanical" but a "research" aspect, which, as heterogeneous as such, should be integrated in it. The Society should embody this "post-bureaucratic" principle in its discipline and organization.
