The Research Promotion Bureau is responsible for the formulation of policies to promote cross-field research such as encouraging inventions, promoting the application of research results and cooperation among industries, academia and government, improving the research environment and R&D infrastructure by, for example, enhancing the research information infrastructure, and performing work relating to fundamental research. The Bureau also formulates policies to promote scientific study, including the establishment of scientific institutions and the provision of assistance for scientific research, and performs work relating to basic and fundamental research and development in such areas as IT, life science, and quantum and radiation research.#InternationalFunding