in collaboration with the University of Toronto
“Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia”
- A Day at the University of Toronto -
18 November (wed), 2009, 09:45-12:00
Language: English (no translation)
GRIPS
Conference Rooms 1AB
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
GRIPS is pleased to invite you to a rare opportunity - To experience
“A day at the University of Toronto,” right here in Japan.
Distinguished professors from the University of Toronto will give you a taste of what it is like to spend a day at the world-renowned university, as well as introduce you to current issues in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Program:
09:15-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:45 Opening Remarks by Tatsuo Hatta, President of GRIPS
09:45-10:00 Judith Wolfson “This is U of T”
10:00-10:15 Meric Gertler “Why the University of Toronto?”
10:15-10:35 Janice Stein “Join the Global Conversation”
10:35-10:55 Cynthia Goh “Scientific Entrepreneurship 101”
10:55-11:15 Break
11:15-11:35 Joseph Wong “The Political Economy of Knowledge”
11:35-11:55 Ito Peng “Social Policy for Enabling Innovation”
Venue: GRIPS Conference Rooms 1AB
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Language : English (no translation)
Admission : Free
Speakers from the University of Toronto
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Meric S. Gertler |
| Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto |
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| Meric S. Gertler is Professor of Geography and Planning, and the Goldring Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. He co-directs the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems at Uof T’s Munk Centre for International Studies, where he runs a large research program investigating the role of city-regions as the primary sites of innovation and creativity in the global economy. His work engages in comparative analysis of North American and European cities to understand how local social and cultural dynamics create the foundations for economic success and prosperity. He is a frequent advisor to local, regional and national governments in Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as to international agencies such as the OECD (Paris) and the European Union. His books include Manufacturing Culture (Oxford UP, 2004) and the Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. | |
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Cynthia Goh |
| Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto Associate Director, Institute for Optical Sciences Co-founder, Axela Inc., and Vive Nano Inc. |
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M. Cynthia Goh is Professor of Chemistry and the Institute of Medical Science, and Associate Director of the Institute for Optical Sciences at the University of Toronto. She received a BS in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines and a PhD from UCLA. She did postdoctoral research at Columbia University in the area of nonlinear optics, and at UC Berkeley on vibrational spectroscopy of solids. Professor Goh has a diverse set of research interests, ranging from biomaterials to diffractive optics and probe microscopy of biological systems. She invented the technique of diffraction-based sensing, a highly sensitive approach for the detection of biomolecules with applications in medical diagnostics and in drug discovery. This discovery led her to co-found Axela Biosensors Inc in 2001. Recent discoveries led her to co-found Cleantech company Vive Nano in 2006, together with five of her students. She has been the recipient of the Philippine Heritage Award, given by the President of the Philippines for her professional work and service to the community. |
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Ito Peng |
| Professor, Department of Sociology Associate Director of School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto |
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| Ito Peng is Professor of Sociology. She teaches political sociology, comparative social and health policy, and qualitative research methods. Professor Peng’s research interests include: social policy reforms in East Asian and European countries, gender, family, and demographic changes and their impacts on social policies, political economy of welfare state transformations, and immigrant women’s health and its policy implications in Ontario. Professor Peng is an associate researcher for the UNRISD and a research fellow at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. She has been active in policy research with international organizations and has undertaken research for UNRISD, UNESCAP, and the World Bank. Dr. Peng received her Ph.D. from London School of Economics. | |
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Janice Gross Stein |
| Director, School of Global Affairs at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto |
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| Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the School of Global Affairs at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Her most recent publications include Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000); The Cult of Efficiency (2001); and Street Protests and Fantasy Parks (2001). She is a contributor to Canada by Picasso (2006) and the co-author of The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (2007). She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton and McMaster University. | |
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Judith Wolfson |
| Vice President, University Relations, University of Toronto |
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| Judith Wolfson is Vice-President, University Relations for the University of Toronto where she is responsible for the University’s Government and Community Relations, International Relations and Strategic Communications and Marketing. Ms. Wolfson received her Masters in Social Work and her Bachelor of Law degrees at the University of Toronto. She spent ten years with the Government of Ontario in several senior positions including Deputy Minister - Intergovernmental Affairs, Deputy Minister - Economic Development, Trade and Tourism, and Deputy Minister - Consumer and Commercial Relations. Prior to her present position at the University of Toronto she was President and CEO of Interac Association/Acxsys Corporation, Canada’s national electronic financial services network serving the Canadian financial institutions and related industries. In 2003 Judith Wolfson received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for leadership and service to the community in recognition of her leadership in a wide range of major community organizations. |
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Joseph Wong |
| Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science; Director, Asian Institute, School of Global Affairs at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto |
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| Professor Joseph Wong holds a Canada Research Chair in Democratization, Health and Development at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Director of the Asian Institute at the School of Global Affairs at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto. Wong received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Professor Wong teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in political economy and comparative public policy. He has held visiting fellow positions at Harvard University, Oxford, Seoul National University, the Taiwan Institute for National Policy Research and Singapore National University. Wong is the author of several articles and book chapters. His books include Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2004) and Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose (Routledge, 2008). Wong recently completed a book manuscript on the political economy of biotechnology in Asia, which is currently under review at a major US academic press. Professor Wong has collaborated on research projects involving the World Bank, the United Nations and governments in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He was recently elected Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. |
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