The Science and Technology Agency is responsible for the more effective use of financial and human resources of the Government, by elimination of unnecessary duplication of R & D efforts filling up of vital gaps in R & D topics, and encouraging, those in foundary fields. Each year, the Agency decides the subjects to promote in the next fiscal year basing on the analysis results of national trends, allocation of funds, needs of R & D, etc. and requests their realization to ministries and agencies. Before the conception by ministries and agencies becomes to take shape, public hearings are held and coordination of R & D topics carried out by ministires and agencies is made. In this report, the possibility and orientation of the utilization of the JOIS system for this purpose is discussed against the above background .
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