GRIPS Innovation, Science and Technology Policy Program (GIST) will hold the 87th GIST Seminar, inviting Dr. Huang Yaling (Researcher at Taiwan External Trade Development Council; Visiting Scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan).

Please register at this registration form by noon on December 14^th.  

If you cannot open the form, please send email to GIST Secretariat, gist-ml　grips.ac.jp Registration email must include:

1) your name, 2) institution, 3) position, and 4) e-mail address. 

The application will be closed as soon as the number of applicants reaches the capacity.

■Outline

In order to complement the economic transition, the New Southbound Policy was officially launched in September 2016 by Taiwan’s government to enhance cooperation and exchanges between Taiwan and 18 countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australasia and New Zealand. This policy focuses on education, agriculture, culture, tourism and other people-to-people interactions beyond trade and investment.

In the process of economic development of Asia, Taiwan has played an important role by acting as a resource consolidator and a provider of capital and technology over previous decades. As a result, Taiwan has established close and long-term economic and trade ties with the countries of Southeast and South Asia. Meanwhile, Japanese transnational corporations also have longstanding and extensive production networks in those countries. If Taiwanese and Japanese firms can collaborate with each other, it can benefit both sides as well as the host countries. The author will present possibilities of Japan-Taiwan alliance on business development and innovation activities through selected case studies in various sectors like machinery, textiles, food processing, electronics and so forth. The finding illustrates that collaborations can happen in several forms: subcontracting production networks, technology licensing, personnel mobility, and emerging of Taiwan-Japan co-owned startups. During the process of collaborations, non-firm actors like universities and intermediaries organizations can play important roles as knowledge providers and facilitators.

■Speaker’s Biography

 Dr. Huang Yaling is a researcher at Taiwan External Trade Development Council, which is the foremost non-profit trade promotion organization in Taiwan, and is now a Visiting Scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan. She obtained her PhD in the field of industrial economics from National Central University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.