In this way, the problems and trouble spots will become clear. Once they have been ascertained, the next thing will be to-build a market in which Japan or Japanese companies are competitive.
No one knows what is needed to utilize intellectual properties in next-generation industries. It is like the mechanism generated by the concept of private assets in the early stages of capitalism. Just as modern systems were created only when the right of individual ownership was understood, so too society cannot move forward without solving the problem of intellectual properties.
The issue of intellectual properties should be debated not from the shortsighted viewpoint of simply "protecting" such properties, but in a long-range time frame, taking in the bigger picture of a new concept in a new society. What kind of society is a society based on the right to private ownership of information? Naturally, industry is not created simply by owning information. The need arises, therefore, for the circulation of information, but by what means? Unfortunately, most of the current debate on intellectual properties in the digital age aims to extend the industrial society-centered view to cyberspace. It is necessary to move away from such a viewpoint and debate intellectual properties from a completely historical, philosophical and economic viewpoint.
Strategy 2:
Establishment of digital literacy in Japanese targeted at lifelong education
The second IT strategy is to establish digital literacy in Japanese with lifelong education as the target.
From the viewpoint of IT strategy as industrial policy, it is a mistake to place emphasis on elementary education. Giving prominence to elementary education is no more than an extension of industrialization age values when it was necessary to mass produce factory workers who could read.
