The social system of "safety and security" covers a wide range of events in a wide range of domains and must be tackled with a variety of knowledge. The name of the subcommittee of the Society for Collaborative and Competitive Sustainability is "Safety and Security," but why is "safety" the first word in the word order and "security" the second? Isn't the "vested interest" in "safety" getting in the way of a social system that will support "security" in the future? In this paper, we will look at the thresholds of "safety" and "security" in each industry and discuss the issues in the social system related to the threshold of "security (Anshin)", touching on examples of social issues.

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In the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) era, the difficulty for implementation of innovation increases, and innovation that involves solving complex social issues and transforming social systems, such as the SDGs, is particularly difficult. However, the "innovation process model" has evolved for implementation of innovation, and co-innovation is expected to be one of the solutions for the difficulty in the VUCA era. Our innovation system should be transformed to adapt to the evolution of the innovation process model. This paper discusses the innovation process and the design of innovation systems for implementation of co-innovation, including a comparison with open innovation and transdisciplinary research.

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ELSA (Ethical (E), Legal (L) and Social Aspects (SA)) has become such an important concept that it is excluded from society if it is contradicted. In this paper, I focused on social background (SA) and ethics (E) to discuss business ethics in Japan. As a result, Japan has a "comprehensive way of thinking" based on a "mutually cooperative self-view" in a "mutually cooperative system" and a logical structure called "four-phrase discrimination. It was revealed that it is the "interpersonal" ethics of "co-speech" in the field of "Chuso" language, which is the "non-separation of subject and guest". It is a theory of relations and what Yasusuke Murakami calls "hermeneutic reflection". In other words, "Ba" is essential as an analytical concept. I have shown that only these considerations are compatible with an ethics that ensures sustainability in Japan.

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This paper attempts to examine and analyze the correlation between the regulatory systems and approach structures of advanced science and technology management and chemicals management. Specifically, by using biotechnology (genetic modification technology) as a case study, a comparative study of the EU, the US, and Japan was conducted, focusing on legal precautionary measures regarding the risk of scientific uncertainty in the fields of advanced science and technology and chemicals. As a result, it was found that there is a certain correlation between the regulatory regimes and approach structures of the two fields. Although there are previous studies in each field, there is a scarcity of studies that focus on the correlation between the boundaries of the two fields of advanced science and technology and chemicals. This study provides a first step toward the field of a precautionary risk policy associated with uncertainty and a science and technology policy in the future.

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