The strategic importance of STI is growing in today's society, and countries are competing to achieve excellence in this field. Innovation is facilitated in an environment where diverse human resources interact, collaborate, and compete. In fact, it is known that there is a correlation between research power and international brain circulation.

In the segment 'A Look Around Innovation,' we introduce R&D sites that have led to social implementation.

'Psyche,' the first U.S. spacecraft to visit a metal-type asteroid, was successfully launched aboard a large SpaceX rocket late at night on October 13, Japan time.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to a pair of researchers who paved the way for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine using genetic material called messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA).