Researcher qualitative change by governmental support in Japan

To promote academic research in Japan, the government of Japan acts a crucial role to support the research. Recently it has been focusing on projects-based support for research development of cutting-edge researchers. Our research is trying to reveal the effectiveness of their projects from qualitative perspective. We examined several case studies including “Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology” (FIRST Program), using bibliometric approach with academic papers and patents. Through research for these case-studies, we reveal that their researchers change their research output with different research interest, and we evaluate these qualitative change reflects how research group is formulated in terms of laboratory organizational and management perspective.