2024 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 17-25
In the "Guidelines for the Promotion of Sharing of Research Facilities and Equipment," a strategic facility development and operation plan was proposed. In formulating this plan, it is necessary to analyze the university's management strategy and financial resources, and to incorporate a medium- to long-term perspective.
The conventional facility master plan has a strong meaning mainly as a document for requesting estimates from the government, and there are problems with the effectiveness of the plan. In addition, there were issues such as the fact that the budget for the development of research facilities was often bottom-up at the research site, and that the budget framework led by the university was not functioning sufficiently. On the other hand, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has pointed out the need to consider the development of research infrastructure in the medium to long term while collaborating with industry, academia, and government, and the relationship between research infrastructure strategy and industry-academia collaboration was also examined.
In order to formulate a strategic facility plan, it is necessary to change the way of thinking from a bottom-up budget system to one in which the national government and universities take the lead in developing facilities.
