Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) have signed a complete partnership settlement to advance the creation of scientific and technological innovation and expertise improvement by collaboration in analysis, training, college administration, and different areas, based mostly on their respective experience and achievements in science and expertise analysis and coverage analysis. In the presence of Science Tokyo President and Chief Executive Officer Naoto Ohtake, GRIPS President Hiroko Ota, and different representatives of the respective establishments, the settlement signing ceremony was held on Ookayama Campus on October 1, 2025.
As an open-system college, Science Tokyo goals to unravel complicated social points and unknown crises by bringing collectively data from inside Japan and abroad, and from business, authorities, and academia, so as to create a greater, brighter future. As one among Japan’s main facilities for coverage research, GRIPS focuses on science, expertise, and innovation coverage, aiming to grow to be a hub for business, authorities, and academia to handle social points.
The complete collaboration between Science Tokyo, which goals to strengthen coverage views within the discipline of science and expertise, and GRIPS, which hopes to deepen coverage research by incorporating data from the sector of science and expertise, will broaden the analysis and academic potential of each establishments and contribute to the development of Japan’s science, expertise and innovation coverage.
- Research collaboration in fields the place science and expertise intersect with coverage
- Educational collaboration, together with scholar alternate applications
- Collaboration in college administration, together with administrative employees exchanges and co-hosted coaching applications
- Other collaborations, together with these involving business partnerships and worldwide exchanges
Collaboration in analysis – Formulating a strategic science and expertise coverage
Science Tokyo, a hub of cutting-edge scientific and technological experience, and GRIPS, an establishment of superior experience in coverage analysis, will collaborate to conduct joint analysis on science, expertise, and innovation coverage. The companions will even work collectively on the actions centered on the Investigation with Integrity, Innovation for Impact Collective (I4C), a strategic evaluation and data sharing unit at Science Tokyo.
Together, these efforts goal to attain elevated multi-dimensional, multi-layered science and expertise analysis, evaluation, and proposals which can be strategically necessary on the nationwide degree.
Examples of analysis collaborations
1. Promoting collaborative analysis that integrates coverage analysis and science and expertise analysis
The companions will advance collaborative analysis that leverages every establishment’s analysis achievements, addressing coverage wants associated to science, expertise, and innovation coverage and making proactive coverage suggestions. These embrace:
- Strategies for selling mission-oriented transformative analysis and innovation
- An open/closed technique enabling the market deployment of world-leading technological seeds
- Supply, demand, and improvement of superior science, expertise, and innovation expertise
Through collaboration between analysis laboratories, the establishments will even present reciprocal analysis steering to one another’s college students.
2. Identifying key points for advancing strategic initiatives
Based on a standard understanding of science and expertise analysis and coverage analysis, the companions will make clear key strategic points on which Japan ought to focus. GRIPS will mix the coverage analysis experience gathered by the Science for RE-designing Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciREX) and different applications with Science Tokyo’s data of science and expertise to develop extra correct strategies for future insights, the formulation of analysis methods, and a framework for developing innovation techniques. Science Tokyo’s I4C shall be used as a discussion board to additional develop the community cultivated by GRIPS by the SciREX program, and the 2 establishments will collectively maintain examine teams and workshops.
3. Promoting social dialogue that mixes completely different views
The companions will maintain symposiums and seminars involving varied sectors of society, together with companies, to broadly talk strategic science and expertise coverage ideas to the general public.
Collaboration in training – Talent improvement leveraging the strengths of each events
The majority of scholars at GRIPS are authorities officers from throughout Asia, together with Japan. At Science Tokyo, many college students are anticipated to steer the event of future cutting-edge applied sciences. Through this settlement, GRIPS and Science Tokyo goal to counterpoint varied academic occasions throughout each establishments and develop curricula that leverage the strengths of each establishments.
Examples of academic collaborations
1. Promoting mutual alternate between college and college students at seminars, occasions, and different gatherings for college kids
The companions will promote mutual alternate between college and college students by displays and lectures by Science Tokyo college members and participation of Science Tokyo college students on the GRIPS Forum, and participation of GRIPS college students, together with each home and worldwide authorities officers, in varied seminars and symposiums held by Science Tokyo.
2. Enhancement of coaching programs for public officers
The companions will improve the content material of the GRIPS coaching course for public officers with the cooperation of Science Tokyo college members.
3. Enhancement of certificates applications by collaboration between the 2 establishments
Science Tokyo college members with cutting-edge experience will take part within the GRIPS Short-term Program for STI Policy & Management Training, enhancing the certificates program choices.
4. Cross-institutional programs leveraging the strengths of each establishments
The companions will provide cross-institutional programs in areas of respective energy, comparable to Science Tokyo programs protecting policy-critical fields like quantum expertise and AI, and GRIPS programs inspecting developments in science and expertise coverage in different nations and areas (significantly creating nations in Asia and elsewhere).
5. Future enhancement of academic collaboration by initiatives comparable to new programs and applications developed collectively by the establishments
In addition to programs taught by Science Tokyo college members that present an summary of cutting-edge science and expertise, and programs taught by GRIPS college members that present an summary of science, expertise and innovation coverage, the companions goal to create programs taught by college members from each establishments that may develop expertise able to realizing strategically necessary science and expertise insurance policies.
Collaboration in college administration – Strengthening the foundations of college operations by the event and utilization of various expertise
The two establishments will promote personnel exchanges and coaching between their administrative workplaces, aiming to additional strengthen the foundations of the establishments’ operations.
Examples of administrative collaborations
- Personnel alternate applications for administrative and different employees members
- Enhanced coaching applications on matters comparable to info safety by joint employees improvement initiatives
Institute of Science Tokyo
Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) is a nationwide college established in October 2024 by the merger of Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. With the mission of “Advancing science and human wellbeing to create value for and with society,” the Institute strives to reap the benefits of the traditions and improvements of each predecessor universities to grow to be a brand new sort of establishment with out precedent.
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) goals to contribute to the betterment of democratic governance world wide by analysis and training associated to coverage and coverage innovation. GRIPS is a graduate faculty specializing in coverage analysis, and was established as a nationwide college in 1997. It is a world hub for coverage research, attracting future coverage leaders and researchers from world wide.