GRIPS Innovation, Science and Technology Policy Program (GIST) will hold the 70th GIST Seminar, inviting Dr. Erkki Karo, Research fellow, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, Visiting Scholar, GRIPS.

(http://gist.grips.ac.jp/en/events/gistseminar/gistseminar070-en.html)

*Please register at this registration form by Jan 22（Fri）at 6 p.m.

If you cannot open the form, please send email to GIST Secretariat, gist-mlgrips.ac.jp. Registration email must include:
1) your name, 2) institution, 3) position, and 4) e-mail address.

■Presentation Overview

This presentation will discuss two central industrial and innovation policy “experiments” the EU has decided to pursue during the 2014-2020 strategy period. Firstly, EU level science and innovation policies are currently driven by the focus on tackling imminent “societal challenges” (energy efficiency and security, aging and sustainability of the welfare systems etc) through technological and social innovations. Second, most of the EU regional policy is driven by the concept of “smart specialization” that seeks to increase the relevance and impact of regional industrial and innovation policies across the EU. This presentation will introduce the basic policy rationales and designs of these new policy approaches and will also discuss their functioning within the multi-level governance of the EU where such policy experiments have to be implemented by nation states and regions with uneven industrial and innovation capabilities, and also diverse political and institutional systems.