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2009.11.12
[11/17] Canada Innovation Symposium (Day2)

THEME 4: ENABLING INNOVATION
Economic and Social Innovation in governance, structures and financing models
Moderator: Atsushi Sunami

09:00 - 09:15 Special Remarks
Takashi Shiraishi, Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office

09:15 - 09:45 Keynote Address
SOCIAL INNOVATION
Janice Stein, Director, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

09:45 - 10:15 DISCUSSION

10:15 - 10:30 BREAK

10:30 - 10:45 Special Remarks
Akira Goto, Commissioner of Fair Trade Commission of the Government of Japan, Visiting Professor, GRIPS

10:45 - 11:30 PANEL
- Tim McTiernan, Assistant Vice-President, Research and Executive Director, Innovations Group, University of Toronto
- Rana Sarkar, Senior Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies and Co-Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board for the Masters of Global Affairs at the new School of Global Affairs at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto and President and Executive Director of the Canada-India Business Council (C-IBC)
- Yukiko Motomura, Science and Environment News Department, The Mainichi Newspapers

11:30 - 12:00 DISCUSSION

12:00 - 12:15 Special Remarks
Shinya Yamanaka, Professor, Kyoto University (2009 Gairdner Prize Winner)

12:15 - 12:30 CLOSING REMARKS
- Tatsuo Hatta, President, GRIPS
- Judith Wolfson, Vice President, University Relations, University of Toronto

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