1. Japan Standards Association
ICES 2011 and WSC Academic Week  Jun 2011
Importance of academic research in standards education for public policy
Jiliang University
Hangzhou, China
Masami Tanaka
President
Japan Standards Association

2. Increasing Importance of standard educations
Globalization of daily life and business
Emerging soft standards related to global issues
Global warming, social responsibility, social securities etc
Many complex issues to master standardization

3. Several initiatives on encouraging standards educations
Standards Development Organization
ISO： Providing e-learning textbook, establishment of ISO Award for Higher
Education
IEC： Releasing Power Point material for MBA or MOT
ITU： ITU-T/Academia holds workshop
APEC： promoting education project for international standardization
ASTM International, BSI, KSA and Others: Texts on Standards Education etc
Cooperative meeting (forum) on standards education
ICES（International Cooperation for Education about Standardization starting 2006）
Asian Linl Project on Standardization Educations (started 2004)
Working Group on Standardization Educations within Europe (2006)
Many academic institutions throughout the world are already promoting the SE programs 　 3 3

4. Roles of the academic institutions for Standards Education
Practicing SE , which is based on more scientific results
Develop the methods of pedagogy
Nurturing research and studies that consolidate and expand the knowledge
Creating synergistic process by fusing the academia with business and public officers

5. Many researches of Economic Aspect
Basic Aspects
Improving economic efficiency
Compatibility and interoperability
Scale economy by simplification
Limiting market failure
Reducing information asymmetry
Promoting trade
Many case studies and analysis have been done in these basic aspects and published the books and articles

6. Two Important Area of Standards Education at the higher Education
Economic benefits of Standardization
Utilization of Voluntary Standards at Public Policies

7. Relations between standards and institutions
Competition
Policy
Business Strategy
(Marketing, R&D)
Trade Policy
Standards
Intellectual Property Right
Consumer Protections
Government Regulations
Environment protection 7

8. Attributes of Standards
Compatibility , Interfaces
Network Economy (lock-in etc), Scale Economy
Mutual understanding
Common guideline ,Delivering Information　
Simplification
Securing Safety and Protecting Environment
and
Conformity Assessment 8

9. Regulations and Voluntary Activities
Voluntary Activities by Private Sectors
Government Regulations
Voluntary Standards (national , Regional, International)

10. Benefits of Using Voluntary Standards
More flexibility
More consistency
More transparency
Less cost (if available)
Problems of Regulators
Can not manage contents of standards by themselves
Takes time to change standards
Different culture from standardizations

11. Two area of research
Relationship between regulatory frameworks and voluntary standards
Mechanism of conformity assessment in regulatory frameworks

12. Standards supporting Voluntary Activities
Management Standards
ISO14000 series
Guides and Codes of Industrial Associations etc
Instrumental Standards
Technical Specifications for machines and production systems
Measurements and test methods
Machinery Safety Standards etc
Uniformed Information Set
Information Transfer from suppliers to end user
General Guides for machine Safety (Guide 51)
Building Codes etc

13. Benefits of Citing standards (JIS)
Gas Suppliers safety Law
Main materials for Pipe
Labor safety Law
Structural materials
for crane
Fire prevention Law
Materials for evacuation equipment
General rolled steel for general use for construction (JIS-G3101)
Toxic poisonous chemicals control Law
Materials of vessels
Building Construction Law
Structural materials for building
Electricity Supply Law
Materials for Iron pillar and tower
172 Laws cite 1991 JIS standards, with 6068duplicated counts: August 2008

14. Hierarchy of relations between regulations and standards
International Standards
More transparency
Widely recognized
Adoption
National Standards
Domestic Common Practices
Citation
Technical Regulations

15. CE Marking System (Conformity Assessment Mechanism)
Consistent Standards (CEN/CENELEC)　
Standards
EU Directives
（Essential elements）－
（Detail specification)
Internal Management of Producers
Type
Approval
Confirming Design
Batch Test／100％ test
Conformity Assessment
Design
Quality management
Production
Declaration of conformance
ＣＥ Marking
Surveillance
Sampling inspection at the market

16. Changes of Conformance Framework
Government Government Government
(Set Standards) (Set Standards) (Set Standards)
Results Results
Designated Inspection Accredited Inspection Accredited I.B.
Bodies Bodies
-Limited Open Open
-ISO/IEC Guides Guides
Certificate Certificate Certificate
Private Firms Private Firms Private Firms

17. Summary
Expanding SE as the higher educations in terms of numbers and scope in various areas in the world .
Academic institutions play important roles in SE not only by educating but also research
So far many academic researches have been done within the disciplines of the economics (benefits etc)
Utilizing voluntary S at public policy such as regulations is important area at SE and academic reaserches