Program

4th March 2010, Thursday
Auditorium, MEXT Building 3rd Floor

9:30-9:40 Opening Address Tomoaki Wada, Director General, NISTEP
9:40-9:50 Guest Speech Toichi Sakata, Vice Minister, MEXT

Session 1 Keynote Speech

9:50-10:20 [Keynote Speech 1] Taizo Yakushiji, Professor, Keio University / Research Adviser, Institute for International Policy Studies / former Leading Board Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy
10:20-11:05 [Keynote Speech 2] Rita Colwell, Professor, University of Maryland / 11th Director General, National Science Foundation, USA
11:05-11:50 [Keynote Speech 3] George Hara, Group Chairman and CEO, Defta Partners Group
<11:50-13:15 Lunch Break>

Session 2 Research Presentation

13:15-13:55 [Special Talk 1] Martti af Heurlin, Senior Director, Tekes, Finland
13:55-14:35 [Special Talk 2] Sungchul Chung, Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Korea
14:35-15:15   Hiroshi Ohashi, Director, NISTEP /University of Tokyo
<15:15-15:30 Break>

Session 3 Discussion

15:30-17:00 Agenda 1 "Innovation Policy in the Post Crisis Era"
Agenda 2 "Role of Evidence-based Approach in the Post-crisis Innovation Policy"
Participant Professor Anthony Arundel (United Nations University / University of Tasmania)
Professor Ashish Arora (Duke University)
Martti af Heurlin, Sungchul Chung, Dr. Fumihiko Kakisaki (NISTEP), Hiroshi Ohashi (moderator)
17:00-17:15 Closing Address Terutaka Kuwahara, Deputy Director General, NISTEP
 
The working languages of the conference will be Japanese and English
with the simultaneous interpretation available.