BBL Seminars

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RIETI's periodic Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) seminars welcome an array of guest experts to share their research and views. The sessions encourage lively discussion that contributes to dynamic policy-related debate.
Presently, BBL Seminars are not open to the public as spaces are limited. Select transcripts are available below.

Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries

  • January 27, 2023

    “Chip War” and Its Implications for Japanese Industrial and Security Policies

    • Speaker: Chris MILLER (Associate Professor, International History, Fletcher School, Tufts University)
    • Commentator: WAKABAYASHI Hideki ((Professor, Graduate School of Management, Department of Management of Technology, Tokyo University of Science)
    • Commentator: OTA Yasu (Columnist, NIKKEI)
    • Moderator: NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Director, Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)

  • January 20, 2023

    Public Policy in the 22nd Century

    • Speaker: NARITA Yusuke (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Assistant Professor, Department of Economics & Cowles Foundation & Y-RISE, Yale University)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • January 13, 2023

    The Economics of SME Finance: The roles of financial institutions and the government

    • Speaker: UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Commentator: KOZAKI Tadahiko (Director, Finance Division, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
    • Moderator: MIZUNO Masato (MIZUNO Masato (Director of Research, RIETI))

    Japanese

  • December 16, 2022

    DX Series

    The Present State and Future of the Metaverse As Seen Through the Development of “Cluster”

    • Speaker: KATO Naoto (CEO, Cluster)
    • Commentator: WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)
    • Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo / Project Assistant Professor, Research Strategy Office, National Institute of Informatics (NII) / Specially Appointed Fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) / Visiting Researcher, The Research Institute for Innovation Management, Hosei University)

    Japanese

  • December 13, 2022

    Penetration of Quantitative Performance Indicators of the Impact of “design” on organization management

    • Speaker: WASHIDA Yuichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Commentator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 7, 2022

    World Economic Outlook and the Asia Pacific Region: Countering the cost-of-living crisis

    • Speaker: SUMI Chikahisa (Former Director and Special Advisor, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, International Monetary Fund (IMF))
    • Commentator: NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, University of Niigata Prefecture)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • December 1, 2022

    Backcasting Thinking, IP Strategy for Higher Corporate Value and Related Challenges

    • Speaker: UETA Takamori (Director for IP Strategy Policy Planning Coordination, Policy Planning and Research Division, Policy Planning and Coordination Department, Japan Patent Office)
    • Moderator: TAMURA Suguru (Senior Fellow, RIETI/ Visiting Researcher, IFI, The University of Tokyo)

    Japanese

  • November 29, 2022

    RIETI-OECD Seminar

    Confronting the Crisis - OECD Economic Outlook November 2022

    • Speaker: Muge Adalet McGOWAN (Deputy Head of Division/Senior Economist, Country Studies - Desk Japan/Ireland, Economics Department, OECD)
    • Speaker: OGURO Kei (Economist, Economics Department, OECD)
    • Commentator: UEDA Naoko (Head of OECD Tokyo Centre)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
    • Presentation [PDF:532KB]
    • Video (YouTube)

  • November 28, 2022

    Economics of Invention: Knowledge creation for innovation

    • Speaker: NAGAOKA Sadao (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Tokyo Keizai University)
    • Commentator: OKADA Yoshimi (Director of the 1st Division, Department of Trials and Appeals, Japan Patent Office, METI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 22, 2022

    Voice Through Divestment