How to Make Growth Sustainable?
EU News 267/2013
3 June 2013
GRIPS - EU Delegation Joint Forum
'How to Make Growth Sustainable?
Investment in Science and Innovation in the EU and in Japan'
organised by
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and the EU Delegation to Japan
Sokairo Hall 1st Floor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
21 June 2013
14:00 – 15:45 (13:45 registration)
Growth has become the biggest issue of matured economies. The baseline of future growth is the investment in innovation. Japan is publishing a new Growth Strategy and the EU a major investment of around 70bn € with Horizon2020. After the S&T Agreement between EU and Japan entered into force on 29 March 2011, collaboration has become more strategic and more focussed on issues of mutual interest. International collaboration is key for innovation, growth and standardisation.
This forum aims to deepen mutual understanding of new initiatives in science and innovation policy of the EU and Japan, and to establish the basis for the future international collaboration between them.
Robert-Jan Smits (PDF)
Director-General of DG Research and Innovation
European Commission of the EU, Brussels
'Meeting our Common Challenge for Growth and Jobs: a Key Role
for EU-Japan Cooperation in Research & Innovation'
Yuko Harayama (PDF)
Executive Member
Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP)
Cabinet Office of Japan
'The Japanese Growth Strategy: CSTP’s Perspective -
- Comprehensive Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy'
Language: English and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation)
Registration: DELEGATION-JAPAN-ST@eeas.europa.eu (please, include your affiliation)
Agenda:
Master of Ceremony: Ms. Barbara Rhode, Head of the Science and Technology Section and Minister-Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to Japan
14: 00 – 14:10 Welcome Address: Prof . Tatsuo Oyama, Vice President of GRIPS
14:10 - 15:00 Presentations:
14:10 Mr. Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission of the EU, Brussels
'Meeting our Common Challenge for Growth and Jobs: a Key Role for EU-Japan Cooperation in Research & Innovation'
14:40 Prof. Yuko Harayama, Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office of Japan
'The Japanese growth strategy: CSTP’s perspective - - Comprehensive Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy'
15:00 – 15:40 Panel Discussion:
Chair: Prof. Tateo Arimoto, Director of GRIPS Innovation, Science and Technology Policy Program (GIST)
15:00–15:10 Introduction: Ambassador Shin Maruo, Ambassador for Science and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Duco Delgorge, Chairman of the European Business Council in Japan EBC
15:10-15:40 Discussion (other participants of the Panel):
Mr. Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research and Innovation, EU
Prof. Yuko Harayama, Executive Member, CSTP, Cabinet Office of Japan
15:40 Closing remarks: Prof. Tateo Arimoto, GRIPS
- Visit of Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission of the EU at GRIPS, 21 June 2013
- Visit of Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission of the EU in Tokyo, 21 June
Photos by Y. Shimazu, TK, EU, 2013
Updated 2013.07.12