Products and evaluation device of cosmetics for UV protection

- AIST commercialization based on regional collaboration that combines the current strategic logic, and an intermediary's experience and trial-and-error approach -

Abstract

We introduce a case study of UV-protective cosmetic product development. Recently, cosmetics need to solve 3 problems simultaneously: 1) UV-protective effect, 2) transparence, and 3) smooth-textured touch. However, the best recipe and usable evaluation methods are not established. This research is the result of a strategic regional alliance of the AIST grant venture and the technical guidance that did not set a prior scenario with immediate effect of the national research institute. A new manufacturing and evaluation method has been commercialized in the forms of a highly original cosmetics and a new evaluation device. An example of the methodology is shown concerning social factors (regional alliances), particularly. The example is illustrated by comparing 2 elements. The first is the R&D methodology that the Synthesiology journal advocates (the Aufheben type, breakthrough type and strategic selection type). The second is the humanities way of thinking by analogy with natural phenomena such as the evolutionary theory.