Universities must step up to cater for ‘Society 5.0’

By Silvia Richter. Making Japan ‘the most innovation-friendly country in the world’ is one of the Japanese government’s key goals, according to Yuko Harayama, former executive member of the Japanese Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, who discussed Japan’s Comprehensive Strategy on Science, Technology and Innovation at a meeting of German and Japanese researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, on 5 July. More...