Unexplored and the Japanese Bayh-Dole Act

unexplored and Japanese version of the Bayh-Dole act

Software talent is quality, not quantity.

Toru Maekawa, Director of the IPA Technology Center... We should create a mechanism to create super hackers in Japan... The report advocated a Copernican turn of the government's logic, shifting the target of the grant from companies to individuals.

And the times sent the winds to turn it around. [The Special Measures Law for Industrial Revitalization and Revitalization (Japanese version of the Bayh-Dole act) was enacted.

In 1999, under the leadership of Minister of International Trade and Industry Kaoru Yosano, who loves personal computers, a team led by Assistant Director Takahiro Hagiwara of the Information and Communication Division of the Information Technology Bureau finally came up with the "Super Hacker Project"... The project started in July 2000 as "Unexplored Software Creation Project" to discover super creators.

What is Unexplored Software Creation Project? Ikuo Takeuchi (2002) PDF

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