Panel III - Regulatory Problems for the Implementation of Invention
Paper N3.2 - Innovation in the Japanese Chemical Industry
Makoto Imanari, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Japan
Abstract: The Japanese chemical industry has been facing
increased competition, reduced profits.
In this circumstance, Japanese government is recently going to have
some plans or has conducted some plans to strengthen the Japanese
industry including chemical industry. These plans include MOT dissemination,
Industry-Academia alliance, Reformation and Renovation of Japanese
University and National Laboratory etc. I will show about the recent
Japanese government plans for strengthening the Japanese industry.
As an example, it will be shown the reformation and renovation
and topics in Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) which author
works as CTO.
The talk will relate to following items.
1. Reformation of R&D organization in MCC.
2. Industry -Academia alliance in MCC, MCC has now three alliances
with academia, these are with University of California Santa Barbara
, Kyoto University and National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology of Japan)
3. Some topics in innovative R&D projects in MCC
3-1 Green sustainable polymer which MCC is developing recently
3-2 Examples of modeling and simulation for accelerating R&D
in MCC
