The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research: Int’l Workshop on “Implementing Transformative STI Policy and Future Challenges in Japan and Abroad”

STIG professors Hideaki Shiroyama and Makiko Matsuo will join the workshop as below:

Solving grand challenges will require shifting away from existing, sector-based STI policy to one enabling the transformation of the entire social structure. This free Zoom webinar will first review past attempts and lessons learned from the Japanese and European experience and then introduce the concept and tools of technology assessment in the international context, notably the EU’s Mission Oriented Innovation Policy (MOIP), to consider how such a transformative STI policy can be achieved.

■Overview
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 16:00–18:30 (JST)
Venue: Free Zoom webinar, pre-registration required (Tokyo Foundation website).
Language: English and Japanese, with simultaneous interpretation

■Program

Moderator: Makiko Matsuo

Opening remarks by Hideaki Shiroyama

Keynotes (with Q&A) by Hideaki Shiroyama, David Winickoff, and Wolfgang Polt

Comments from Kanae Kurata and Kazuhito Oyamada

Discussion among all speakers, joined by members of the Tokyo Foundation’s Reconstructing the Science and Technology Policy System research program, plus questions from the audience.

■More details for the workshop:
(Go to The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research webpage)
https://www.tokyofoundation.org/events/detail.php?event_id=2454