Analysis of Japanese MOT education requirements by a Needs-Seeds matrix

Abstract

In recent years, MOT (management of technology) has been a hot issue in Japan for surviving severe competition in science and technology research, development and business. In this paper, a tendency of newly developed MOT programs through national project until the end of 2003 is analyzed. This analysis just covers limited number of developed programs that are available to be referred at the time of writing this paper through open source, but still might be useful to consider a direction of future development by showing Needs-Seeds matrix that was constructed with current seeds (elements of developed programs) and potential needs (social and commercial requirements). It is suggested that this type of analysis is useful and should be conducted on a regular basis to make continuous improvement of MOT programs.