President's Message Enhancing hub functions for open innovation

摘要

We are almost six months into the Third Term of AIST. "Solving 21st Century issues" and "Enhancing hub functions for open innovation" have been defined as the missions of the institute. With the former, a research strategy that takes into consideration the new growth strategy set forth by the government was developed, and it is now transitioning to the execution phase. For the latter, we have entered an era where close alliances that share more outcome awareness with industry and universities are required. Furthermore, I have personally visited various research institutes at home and abroad and have reconfirmed the important role that public research institutes play as hubs in global competition for innovation. I would like to discuss this further here.