Date & Venue
Friday, November 20th, 2009
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
http://www.grips.ac.jp/index.html

Schedule
[9:00am - 9:30am] Registration, coffee and networking
MC: Professor Atsushi Sunami, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Co-MC: William H. Saito, Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

[9:30am - 10:00am] Opening Keynote
Title: "From Kyoto to Copenhagen - the smart way!"
Speaker: Franz-Michael S. Mellbin, Denmark Ambassador to Japan

[10:00am - 11:15am] Session 1
Title: "CO2 25% Reduction" as a New Innovation Frontier: Come together right now, over it
Cutting 25 percent of Japan's CO2 emissions is a bold and ambitious target for Japan, and many people think that to achieve this goal, a huge amount of money might be flown to other states from Japan, one of the environmentally developed countries. Judging from dynamics of international politics, however, it will be difficult for Japan to withdraw such percentage. Japan, therefore, should treat this situation as chance in million and put together Japanese technologies and strategic characteristic. This session aims to be a new kick-off opportunity where academic, business and governmental circles can openly discuss strategies of Japan Initiatives and inventory of Japanese technologies.

Moderator: Dr. Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (IIR),
Hitotsubashi University
Panelists:
- Yuji Akaba, Co-founder and Managing Director, Breakthrough Partners
- Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Director, Open Innovation & MOT (Management of Technology), Planning Team, Technology Planning Dept., Osaka Gas
- Tetsunari Iida, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)
- Tei A. Gordon, President and CEO, gEco Holdings, LLC

[11:20am - 11:50pm] Special Presentation
Title: "The Blue Economy: Cultivating a New Business Model for Hard Times--10
Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs"
Gunter Pauli is an inveterate entrepreneur whose scope of initiatives spans business, culture, science and education. Aurelio Peccei, founder of the Club of Rome, introduced Gunter to a systems approach that has influenced his research and projects ever since. In 1994, with the support of the Japanese government, Gunter launched an initiative at Tokyo's United Nations University to design an economic framework and value-added cascading business model that converts all waste, including emissions, drawing on whole systems found in nature.

Speaker: Gunter Pauli, Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI)

[12:00pm - 2:00pm] Lunch and Keynote
Title: "A Conversation About Entrepreneurship - A First Hand Experience"
The new US Ambassador to Japan, John V. Roos, brings 20 years of frontline experience at one of Silicon Valley's premier institutions, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, legal advisor to global technology and growth enterprises, as well as the investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them. The firm serves clients at all stages of growth, from venture-backed start-up companies to multibillion-dollar global enterprises, including some of the most recognized names in the technology, retail, life sciences, venture capital, and finance sectors. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in corporate governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions. They advise more U.S. companies in their initial public offerings than any other law firm worldwide.

Moderator: Aiko Doden, NHK
Speaker: Ambassador John V. Roos, United States

[2:00pm - 3:30pm] Session 2
Title: The Foreign Entrepreneurs' Perspective on Japan
What's great about being a foreign entrepreneur in Japan, and what makes doing business here hell? Do foreign operators have advantages over native Japanese, even those who come back after living and studying abroad? This session will cover those questions and more, including how Japan stacks up to other countries in Asia on ease of living and the entrepreneurial environment. Battle-scarred foreign entrepreneurs will describe how that environment has changed during their time in Japan and offer recommendations to the Japanese government on attracting more foreign entrepreneurs. We'll also hear what some of Japan's most dynamic and successful foreign entrepreneurs think are the factors that pushed them ahead, what we can glean from their examples, and where they see the most exciting opportunities arising.

Moderator: Jesper Koll, CEO, Tantallon Research Japan
Panelists:
- Terrie Lloyd, Founder & CEO, LINC Media,
- Mike Alfant, President & CEO, Fusion Systems,
- Sanjeev Sinha, President, Sun and Sands Advisors Co. Ltd.
- Gerald Hane, Ph.D., President and CEO, Battelle-Japan

[3:35pm - 3:55pm] Presentation
Title: Create our future?! - Youth Week and Japanese-German Youth Summit 2009 in Tokyo
Over two hundred young people gathered in August for the Youth Week and Youth Summit in Tokyo. The event established an international forum where young people from different countries can put intercultural communication into practice and discuss important topics we all care about. Representatives of the German - Japanese Youth Society, G8 Youth Summit and AIESEC Japan will present their organizations' programs and cooperation plan.

Representatives:
- Henning Stocks, President, German-Japanese Youth Society & CEO, dejs.de
- Haruka Kakihisa, Board member, German-Japanese Youth Society
- Takahide Kasai, CFO, G8 Youth Summit Japan
- Yuta Murakami, President, AIESEC Japan

[4:00pm - 5:30pm] Session 3
Title: How Can We Develop and Inspire Young Entrepreneurs?
Innovative entrepreneurs are essential for the creation of a vigorous and dynamic society. But if we just sit back and wait, how likely is it that such people will develop naturally on their own? The idea that entrepreneurship is innate trait one must be born with, has long been prevalent. It might be true that family environment and talents of individuals affect development of entrepreneurship. Today, however,the recognition of entrepreneurship as a discipline is helping to dispel this myth. As Peter Drucker has said," It's a discipline, and like any discipline, it can be learned". An educational curriculum and a social environment are very important to give this kind of learning opportunity.
This session will introduce two pioneers in entrepreneurship education: Finland, where it is a matter of national policy to include the development of entrepreneurship in ducation on all levels fromkindergarten to university, and the city of Mitaka, where entrepreneurship training involving the local community is being implemented in all elementary and middle schools.

The session will also examine why some universities are more successful than others in producing entrepreneurs, together with a comment from one of the entrepreneurs who has graduated from these institutions concerning her own experiences in starting up her own social venture. This will lead to a discussion of the achievements of entrepreneurship education so far, the problems that remain, and the role that government ought to play in this undertaking.

Moderator: Kikuko Harada, Director, Center for Entrepreneurship Development
Panelists:
- Minoru Okada, Principal, Mitaka Daiichi Primary School
- Heikki Makipaa, Director, Finnish Institute in Japan
- Toshiro Yahiro, Counsellor, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Kumi Imamura Coordinator, Katariba University/Representative Director, Specified Nonprofit Corporation

[5:30pm - 6:00pm] Closing remarks
Title: "A Rhapsody in Green"
Speaker: Arne Walther, Norway Ambassador to Japan