22 Feb. 2010 10:00-17:40
Venue: GRIPS Soukairo-hall, 1A Meeting room
Prospectus
While Japan has been recognized global leader in science, technology and innovation (STI) for decades,
several emerging economies, particularly China, India, South Korea and Singapore have been recently
emerging as global players in STI in frontier fields such as information technology, molecular and synthetic
biology, pharmaceuticals, material science, nanotechnology, bio-fuels and solar cells among others.
However, in a world fraught with economic, social and environmental crises in a rapidly globalizing world,
sustaining scientific excellence can be challenging
On the other hand, the Fourth Assessment Report of the UNFCC COP 13 meeting in Bali rightly pointed out the
importance of technology development and diffusion, especially in renewable energies as well as novel financial
mechanisms to transfer these technologies to developing and emerging nations.
Therefore, it is important to look at the emerging dynamics of S&T development through enlightened national S&T
policy regimes in strategic areas such as renewable energy and low-carbon manufacturing and consumption activities.
While national competition is a natural strategy for S&T development, such policies should not be at the expense of
cooperation where joint R&D to lower cost and maximize the sharing of benefits of the advances in S&T could be worked out.
Coming up with new ways of knowledge sharing through novel intellectual property regimes through the deployment of appropriate
regional and global innovation system as part of an evolving science and technology policy regime is important.
Sustaining scientific excellence under these emerging challenges within in context of the globalization of R&D to
Asia in the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crises requires new thinking in S&T Policy. How could nations
maintain and continue to develop their S&T and R&D infrastructures under these constraints and opportunities?
The proposed one-day symposium is designed to bring together academic experts and policy makers to discuss these
challenges and opportunities. Experts from UNU-IAS and GRIPS will also be part of the deliberations. A special segment
of the symposium will look at the state of Japanese S&T policy studies looking at these issues as well as Japan's strategy
of cooperation and competition with its Asian counterparts in emerging frontiers in S&T.
The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) was conceived in 1995 with a broad research mandate, founded on the vision enshrined in the UNU Charter of a global network of research and postgraduate training centers with the mission to advance knowledge and promote learning for policy-making.
The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) is a stand-alone graduate school focused on policy studies. Academic staffs at GRIPS include high-level government officials as well as many top-class researchers. These officials are well versed in real-world policy challenges.
January 2010
Special Program Committee
Govindan Parayil (UNU-IAS)
Atsushi Sunami (GRIPS)
Jun Suzuki (GRIPS)
Hiroshi Nagano (GRIPS)
Akira Goto (GRIPS)
For registration, please email to: gist-ml@grips.ac.jp
10:00～11:00
Opening Remarks： Organizer Organizer, Jose Puppim de Oliveira（UNU-IAS Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow）
Key Note：Luc Soete （Director, UNU-MERIT）
11:00～12:30 Session-1: Japanese Perspective
Moderator：Jun Suzuki (GRIPS)
① "Industrialization of Green Technology (tentative title)," Ryuzo Furukawa (Associate Professor, Tohoku University)
② "Environmental Policy and Growth strategy (tentative title)," Keisuke Saito (Director-General, Energy Conservation andRenewable Energy Department Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI))
③ "Technology, Regulations and Economic Growth (tentative title)," Hiroshi Yoshikawa (Professor, the University of Tokyo)
12:30～13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:40 Session-2: International Perspective
Moderator: Atsushi Sunami (GRIPS)
① Aki Suwa (UNU-IAS Postdoctoral Fellow)
② T. Jayaraman (Chairperson, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
③ Kiyoshi Kurokawa (GRIPS)
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Panel Discussion : Knowledge Sharing
Moderator: Jun Suzuki （GRIPS）
Panelist:
①Luc Soete（Director, UNU-MERIT）
②T. Jayaram（Chairperson, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Tata Institute of Social Sciences）
③Jose Puppim de Oliveira（UNU）
④Atsushi Sunami（GRIPS）
17:00-17:30 Special Remarks Sir Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin (Denmark Ambassador to Japan)
17:30-17:40 Closing Tatsuo Hatta（President, GRIPS）
18:00～19:30 Reception
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