The challenge and response of Japan's corporate research institutes in the 21st century

Berkshire Encyclopedia of China

10.1093/acref/9780190622671.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Linsun Cheng

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Research Institutes ◽

Online Communications ◽

Global Economics

800 entriesWith its coverage of environmental issues, global economics, online communications, and the latest political developments, this Encyclopedia is truly a 21st-century work. While including many articles about China's earliest history - going back more than 5,000 years - the Encyclopedia is focused on the events, concepts, and people that matter today. The authors of its 800 accessibly written and lavishly illustrated articles, which range from 600 to 6,000 words, are scholars at major Chinese and Western universities and research institutes.

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Education During COVID-19 in the Ortega-Marañón Foundation

10.4018/978-1-7998-7987-9.ch002 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 15-33

Author(s):

María-Teresa del-Olmo-Ibáñez ◽

Antonio López Vega

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Human Race ◽

Cultural Activities ◽

Research Institutes ◽

Destructive Action ◽

In The Beginning

The pandemic has challenged the human race, as it had been understood in the beginning of the 21st century, and it has been equalized under the effects of COVID-19. It is impossible to ignore the modifications with which transhumanism has superimposed itself on humanism. However, the pandemic has come to question this 'power' of man and science over man himself. The initially uncontrollable destructive action of a virus has been enough to almost paralyze all this progress, even in medicine itself. Health spaces and efforts had to concentrate on the search for resources to quickly stop the increase of contagions and deaths and to find definitive solutions to halt the disease. Economic, social, and cultural activities have required a response to the emergency and a capacity to react and adapt for survival. The Ortega-Marañón Foundation harmonizes humanities and sciences in its two research institutes: Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset and Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Salud Gregorio Marañón, affiliated to the Complutense University of Madrid.

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Research institutes in the 21st century: opportunities for architects

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202127401007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 274 ◽

pp. 01007

Author(s):

Anna Guseva ◽

Ilnar Akhtiamov ◽

Rezeda Akhtiamova

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

21St Century ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Life Quality ◽

Economic Potential ◽

Urban Centre ◽

Research Institutes ◽

New Research ◽

The City ◽

Research Institute

Regarding the accelerated innovation in the 21st century, the article suggests modifying the spatial principles of Research Institutes as isolated institutions. The 21st century Research Institute should reflect the increasing levels of openness and security in modern information exchange methods. Thus, the Institute reveals invisible information processes in the physical urban environment, becoming the urban centre of innovation, a new workplace and leisure centre, as well as a catalyst for enhancing the city’s sustainability. The article analyses the historical paradigm of effective methods for introducing innovation to the urban environment, as well as modern socio-economic needs of innovative research institutes in the city. As a result, a unique organizational structure and functional programme of a new Research Institute are suggested. The Institute directly participates in enhancing the urban environment and forming a new lifestyle of the city dwellers. New spatial principles of such buildings are also proposed, updating the architectural typology of Research Institutes in the 21st century. Due to the increased interaction with the urban environment, the Research Institute and the city are mutually transformed. This contributes both to increasing the Institute’s efficiency and raising the city’s economic potential and life quality.

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