中國籍研究員偽做研究資料

Late last month the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:
東工大は２４日、次世代の燃料電池を開発する産学連携プロジェクトで、一部データが捏造(ねつぞう)されていたと発表した。

　燃料電池の発電性能などを調べていた中国籍の男性研究員が、実際より高性能に見せかけていた。本人も事実関係を認めており、同大は虚偽データを含む論文３本、特許２件を取り下げることを決めた。
　同大は、新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構（ＮＥＤＯ）の委託を受けてプロジェクトを主導。２００８年から４年間で計８億６０００万円を受け取り、燃料電池用の新触媒を開発していた。その触媒を使った電池の性能を調べる際、呉礼斌研究員（３５）がデータを捏造していた。昨年９月、参加企業の指摘で判明した。
(試譯文)
On the 24th the Tokyo Institute of Technology announced that some data were found fabricated in the industry-university cooperation project which developed the next-generation fuel cell.
A male Chinese researcher who was researching the power generation performance of the fuel cell, etc. had made data to show a higher than actual efficiency. As this person had personally admitted to have connection with the matter, the same university decided to withdraw three papers containing fraudulent data and two patents.
The same university led this project in response to the commission from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). A total of 860 million yen was received in four years since 2008 for the development of a new catalyst for fuel cells.
When investigating the performance of the battery using the catalyst, Wu Libin the researcher (35) fabricated the data. It was known that a participating company pointed this out in September last year.


This news shocks me. I am interested to know the motive of this researcher.