Journal of Information Processing and Management

This is the lecture given at the 30th Information Science and Technology Study Meeting (INFORUM '93). The author first points out that current recession, called Heisei Recession, originated from the failure of Japanese management system based on Japanese-way of management, and then discusses what Japanese-way of management is, when it started and how it has been developed. He describes reasons why Japanese-way of management has failed, including high yen value, stagnation of domestic demand. He concludes that Japanese-way of management is hard to be adjusted to the society of maturity, suggesting that we should review such management way and construct new type of economic system urgently. To this end we need to grasp real needs of consumers, and obtain high ability of technical development which can't be copied by others. Many examples to know what items of Japanese-way of management should be examined are given.

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Recently, three reports on forecast of technology were published by the Japanese government. Those are reports provided by the Economic Planning Agency, the Science and Technology Agency and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. This paper describes about the level of Japanese technology based on these reports. Also, this paper describes about technological subjects on information, biotechnology, environment and space to be researched and developed toward 21st century.

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Through science and technology mobilization during the First and Second World Wars the major countries had completed institutionalizing science and technology system in the sixties, which lasted for 200 years since the French Revolution. In the U.S. based on the achievements OSRD had done during the War the Federal Government established full-supporting system for science and technology such as the Presidential science advisor, Science and Technology Bureau, NSF, NIH, NASA and ONR. Europe and Japan also were 10 years behind the U.S. to consolidate administrative bodies of science and technology at the ministerial level and researeh conducting bodies after they accomplished their post-war economic reconstruction. At present facing the 21st century at hand the world science and technology system shows drastic change from a nation's science and technology system which we had experienced in the 19th century into cooperative system among nations with such background that cold war was closed, and world economic is becoming boarderless. Being driven by big science and fundamental studies science and technology of a nation or among nations is now facing the turning point in terms of the competition and cooperation.

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The author has explained the value of information concerning industrial proprietary rights and the key points for application of this data base from the point of view of the end user. Especially the patent information has value as information in regard to the claim itself as well as technological information. In addition, it also plays an important role in regard to the business stratagems of the enterprise. The amount of information also is greater by about one order of magnitude in comparison to other data bases, and the use method is versatile and complicated. The author explains an application method for creation of a patent map, claim investigations, analysis of technological trends, analysis of enterprise information, adaptation to business stratagems, etc.

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