Achieving Community Development through Social Innovation

13:30 - 13:35 Opening Remarks

KOISO Shuji (Professor, Kushiro Public University of Economics and Director of the Research Center for Regional Economics)

13:35 - 14:35 Keynote Speech "For a Fully Participatory Nation Based on Creativity—From a spatial economics perspective"

FUJITA Masahisa (President and CRO, RIETI/Professor, Konan University/Adjunct Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)

14:35 - 15:35 Keynote Report

Keynote Report 1 "Local Revitalization by Administration Outsourcing to the Local—Efforts in Kochi Prefecture"

NAKANISHI Hodaka (Consulting Fellow, RIETI/Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Keynote Report 2 "Using Movements of Social Business as Vigor for Local Communities—Challenges in the Kushiro Area"

KOISO Shuji (Professor, Kushiro Public University of Economics and Director of the Research Center for Regional Economics)

15:35 - 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 - 17:20 Panel Discussion

Moderator: KOISO Shuji (Professor, Kushiro Public University of Economics and Director of the Research Center for Regional Economics)

Panelists:

YUHARA Kazuo (Director-General, Hokkaido Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry)

ONISHI Masayuki (Representative Director, Akan Grand Hotel of Akan Tsuruga Group Ltd.)

EBINA Hiroya (Mayor of Kushiro)

FUJITA Masahisa (President and CRO, RIETI/Professor, Konan University/Adjunct Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)