大型科学プロジェクトの社会的なインパクト

抄録

We discuss social impacts of large scientific projects such as the International Linear Collider (ILC). Since the subject covers a wide range of issues and it is difficult to cover all of them, we discuss a part economic and cultural aspect in this article. Even through the ILC have not gotten “go” signal from funding agencies, it already has years of history in collaborative works in academia, industry and public. The impacts are not the issues in the future, but are on-going issues to be discussed. It is also to be kept in mind that the impacts are not one way issues from the projects to the societies and mutual communications are a key to successful realization of the project.