日本通产省最近提出的1993年度预算经费申请方案中,用于研究开发的经费比1992年增加了16%。这是通产省的科研预算十年来增长幅度最大的一次。此项增加主要是因为通产省决定投资1420亿日元(11亿美元)来加强节能技术和抑制二氧化碳排放的技术的开发和应用。由于日本政府制定了紧缩开支、削减赤字的政策,通产省近几年来研究开发经 Japan's MITI recently proposed budget for the 1993 program of proposals for research and development funding increased by 16% over 1992. This is the largest increase in the research budget of MITI in ten years. This increase is mainly due to the decision of the MITI to invest ¥ 142 billion (US $ 1.1 billion) to develop and apply technologies for energy-saving technologies and carbon dioxide emissions control. As the Japanese government has tightened its spending policy to reduce the deficit, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in recent years, research and development by the