RIETI Policy Symposium

Moving the Japanese Economy onto a New Growth Path: Evidence-based grand design

  • Program

Information

  • Time and Date: 13:00 - 17:40, Thursday, February 18, 2016
  • Venue: Iino Hall and Conference Center, Room A (2-1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: ¥1,000 (Students free; please present your student ID at the reception desk)
  • Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

13:00 - 13:05 Opening Remarks

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

13:05 - 13:40 Keynote Speech "New Growth by Enriching Diversity"

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

13:40 - 15:30 Session 1 "Innovation and Growth in Globalized Economies"

13:40 - 14:00

WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Senior Research Advisor and Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of International Studies and Regional Development, University of Niigata Prefecture / Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University and Yokohama National University)

14:00 - 14:20

SHIMIZU Junko (Deputy Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)

14:20 - 14:40

HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University)

14:40 - 15:00

NAGAOKA Sadao (Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Tokyo Keizai University)

15:00 - 15:30 Q&A

Moderator:

KONISHI Yoko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 17:40 Session 2 "Growth and Development of New Social Systems"

15:50 - 16:10

FUKAO Kyoji (Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

16:10 - 16:30

OHASHI Hiroshi (Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo)

16:30 - 16:50

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director, RIETI / Professor, the Graduate School of Business & Commerce, Keio University)

16:50 - 17:10

FUKAO Mitsuhiro (Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)

17:10 - 17:40 Q&A

Moderator:

MATSUDA Naoko (Fellow, RIETI / Assistant Professor, Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)