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Strategic Goals

What does NFEC do for strategic investment?

Reluctance to lend or borrow research equipment has often entailed overlapping purchasing practices or premature replacement with new equipment. Because of this, national R&D budgets often have not been implemented appropriately.

NFEC embarks on preliminary Feasibility Studies (F/S)01 of the equipment for at the time of undertaking national R&D programs, and established a deliberation system for research equipment. The system has been developed into online RED02. NFEC manages and supervises government ministries in their R&D projects through deliberation at both the budget formulation stage and the execution stage as well. It keeps track of omissions from deliberation and implementation of the resolutions for management and evaluation purposes. It has prepared a NFRM03for future large-scale research facilities to be constructed according to national R&D priorities, and has provided important data on the national R&D investment policies by publishing its annual survey and analysis report04on the status of investments in national research facilities and equipment.

  1. 01NFEC embarks on preliminary Feasibility Studies (F/S) of the facilities and equipment needed for large-scale R&D programs.
    Background
    In the past, large-scale R&D programs were evaluated through the preliminary Feasibility Studies (F/S) at planning stage, but evaluation was only made on the subject of research. It has been, thus, asked that meticulous preliminary Feasibility Studies (F/S) should be made from the perspective of research facilities and equipment
    How to Work
    Preliminary Feasibility Studies (F/S) and deliberation of research equipment are different in that the former is conducted at planning stage and the latter at equipment introduction. It is, therefore, needed to make systematic studies to produce accurate conclusions despite unclear information of planning. For this purpose, preliminary Feasibility Studies (F/S) have developed with 4 techniques known as CSRA (Conformity, Suitability, Redundancy and Appropriateness).
  2. 02NFEC sets in place a system to deliberate on feasibility studies for the construction of research facilities and equipment, and operates a deliberation committee.
    Background
    Concerns were raised over the redundant and unnecessary purchases of costly research facilities and equipment. As such, it was asked to deliberate on the appropriateness of equipment construction.
    How to Work
    To strengthen the investment efficiency of research equipment, the government-wide Deliberation Committee on Research Equipment Budget was established and operates at the stage of formulation of national R&D budget every June. Presently, the government-wide Deliberation Committee on Research Equipment Budget makes additional and revisional budgetary deliberations on a continual basis. Each government ministry manages and examines the implementation status of deliberation resolutions and investigates omissions uncovered during deliberation. In addition, the NFEC has established an online system called RED to promote efficiency and convenience during deliberation.
  3. 03NFEC presents a roadmap, based on national demand forecasts, for the strategic construction of large-scale research facilities.
    Background
    Investment demand has increased for large-scale research facilities to take science and technology to an advanced level. It was, however, difficult to make strategic R&D investments based on the needs of researchers due to such problems as the limitation of investment volume, lack of planning efforts, and low investment efficiency due to downward investment focusing on particular research institutes.
    How to Work
    As for the proposed construction of super large-scale research facilities costing 50 million U.S. dollars or more, NFEC conducts a demand survey at the national level. Successful candidates are selected and NFRM is regularly updated reflecting the changes in the domestic and international environment as well as future research demand.
  4. 04NFEC investigates and analyzes the investment and utilization of research facilities and equipment.
    Background
    In the past, no practical efforts were made to identify the accurate magnitude and investment areas of the research facilities and equipment. This caused difficulty in making reasonable judgments on the appropriateness of investment and future policies. Survey and analysis help make reasonable policy decisions by providing grounds for the R&D policy decisions on the appropriate allocation of budget resources, and by making accurate investment information available.
    How to Work
    NFEC takes stock of the construction of government-funded research facilities and equipment every year. Putting together the results, it analyzes the research facilities and equipment, each of which is worth 30,000 U.S. dollars or more, constructed by national R&D programs during the past five years focusing on such items as investment and utilization, presenting the findings and performance management results in a survey and analysis report on national research facilities and equipment, and conducting performance management.

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