Obstacles to emergence of high/new technology parks, ventures and clusters in Japan

The feasibility of and obstacles to government policies to promote high/new technology (HNT) parks, ventures and clusters are examined mainly in regard to the value systems in the administration and businesses (AB) world and the science and technology (ST) world. Using the language analysis method developed in the philosophy of science, semantic gaps concerning science and research between the two worlds were analyzed and demonstrated as leading the Japanese ST policies into contradictions. Cultural factors such as value gaps between the two worlds are shown to be responsible for the unsuccessful outcome of the ST policies. It is advised to reverse the current ST policies as a short-range policy and to foster ST potential in local areas by renovating traditional fermentation and other techniques and starting up ST-promoting tourism enterprises as a long-range policy.