経済安保で基金創設　ＡＩなど技術開発支援―山際再生相

　山際大志郎経済再生担当相は１７日午前のフジテレビ番組で、経済安全保障上の重要な先端技術の開発を支援する基金を創設する方針を明らかにした。「民間が研究開発し、ビジネスにつなげる環境整備を国としてきちんとサポートする。そこに予算を割く」と説明した。
　１０００億円規模の基金となる見通しで、衆院選後に策定する経済対策に盛り込む方針。日本国内で、人工知能（ＡＩ）や量子技術、バイオ、ロボットなどの重要技術を開発し、実用化できるように企業や大学を支援する。山際氏は「科学技術を核に産業構造を変えていかないと日本経済は成長軌道に乗っていかない。民と官の両方で一生懸命に頑張るということだ」と強調した。（2021/10/17-11:45）

Japan's economic revitalization minister Daishiro Yamagiwa on Sunday revealed a plan to set up a fund to support the development of cutting-edge technologies that are important for the country's economic security.
   "The government will fully support private-sector companies' research and development activities for advanced technologies, and their efforts to prepare a business environment for such technologies," he said on television.
   The fund will likely be worth about 100 billion yen. The government will include the planned fund in a package of economic measures to be drawn up after the Oct. 31 general election for the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   The fund is expected to help Japanese companies and universities develop artificial intelligence, quantum and robot technologies, biotechnology and other important technologies, and put them into practical use.
   "We cannot put the Japanese economy on a growth path unless we change the country's industrial structure mainly through technological development," Yamagiwa said. "Both the public and private sectors should work hard," he added.