Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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November 22, 2022
Voice Through Divestment
- Speaker: Marco BECHT (Professor, Free University of Brussels / ECGI)
- Commentator: FURUSAWA Koyu (Chief Executive, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society / Visiting Professor, Kokugakuin University)
- Moderator: MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Professor, Waseda University / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Presentation (Prof. Becht) [PDF:3.5MB]
- Presentation (Prof. Furusawa) [PDF:1.6MB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)