Abstract
The world is now facing a paradigm shift. Many countries speed up the reform of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy for creating future societies. Also in Japan, new STI policy is redefined in the fourth Science and Technology Basic Plan. Based on this, various renovations in policy formation are underway, especially in the following perspectives: 1. Reform of STI policy in a global era 2. Evolution of policy formation mechanism 3. Evolution of policy system in research and development I sincerely hope that STI policy in a global era will be renovated by co-evolution of "Science for policy" and improvement of "policy formation mechanism".
