Ritsumeikan University and F-Doors are pleased to announce that they will hold an event titled by "SEEDS to BUSINESSES ~ How Can We Commercialize Technology Seeds Well? ~" in the third week of November, 2009. As one of GEW events, this event will include lectures, panel discussion, and case analysis focusing on how well university students, professors, and others in academic community will be motivated to commercialize technology seed ideas that they happen to have in their minds.

Language: Japanese
Attendees: Open
Category: Technology incubation in general
Keynote Speakers:
- Hiroyuki Onishi (CEO, Technology Seed Incubation Inc.)
- Nobuhiko Hibara (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Technology Management, Ritsumeikan University)

Schedule:
6:00pm ~ 6:15pm Introductory Speech
6:15pm ~ 7:00pm Panel Discussion
7:00pm ~ 8:00pm Group Work
8:00pm ~ 9:00pm Lecture and Remarks

Event Website: http://fdoors.web.fc2.com/index.html
Contact: ba088074@ed.ritsumei.ac.jp (Ms.Noda)

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

Schedule:
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
PLENARY: OPENING SESSION
Master of Ceremonies
Mark Scullion, Counselor, Investment, Science and Technology, Embassy of Japan, Government of Canada

09:30 - 09:35 Welcome Greeting
Jonathan Fried, Ambassador of Canada to Japan, Government of Canada

09:35 - 09:40 Special Remarks from University of Toronto
Janice Stein, Director, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

09:40 - 10:05 Keynote Speech
Toichi Sakata, Administrative Vice Minister of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

10:05 - 10:30 Keynote Speech
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF INNOVATION
The Honourable John Manley, Chair, School of Global Affairs at the Munk Centre for International Studies and President Designate, Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE)

10:30 - 10:45 BREAK

THEME 1: CLUSTER INNOVATION
Cluster Innovation in the IT and Energy Sectors
Moderator: Judith Wolfson

10:45 - 11:40 PANEL
- Meric Gertler, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
- Yoko Ishikura, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
- Gerald J. Hane, Founding Managing Director, Q-Paradigm

11:40 - 12:15 DISCUSSION

12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
LOCATION: 4TH Floor South 　 *Lunch Box will be provided

THEME 2: INNOVATION in SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Integrating Science with Entrepreneurship in the Health and Biotechnology
Moderator: Hiroshi Nagano

13:30 - 14:30 PANEL
- Cynthia Goh, Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director of Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto; co-founder, Axela Inc and Vive Nano Inc
- Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Project Director, Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Science Center (GSC)
- Shinobu Oguchi, Founder and Representative Director & Executive Vice President & COO of UPSTREAM INFINITY,INC. , and fellow of Center for Research and Development Strategy Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST-CRDS)
- Joseph Wong, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Political Science, Director, Asian Institute, University of Toronto

14:30 - 15:15 DISCUSSION

15:15 - 15:30 BREAK

THEME 3: GLOBAL CHALLENGES FOR INNOVATION
Moderator: Judith Wolfson

15:30 - 16:15 PANEL
- Govindan Parayil, Vice-Rector of UNU and Director of UNU-IAS
- Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Professor, GRIPS
- Ito Peng, Professor and Associate Director of School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto

16:15 - 17:00 DISCUSSION

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Mieko Nishimizu, Former Vice President of the World Bank, gives lectures
for young future leaders about the real leadership required in the age to come.

Language: Japanese
Attendees: NPO ETIC. & College students and younger working people who are interested in development or leadership.
Category: Development, Leadership
Cost: Free
Keynote speaker: Mieko Nishimizu, Former Vice President of the World Bank

Schedule:
[5:00pm - 6:30pm] Speaker seminar
[6:30pm - 7:00pm] Q&A

Website: http://www.etic.or.jp

Professor Li Jiahua, Vice Chancellor of the China Youth University for Political Sciences (CYUPS), with which GRIPS have an MOU, delivers a special 60-minute lecture on Chinese entrepreneurship, following a 30-minute discussion session with Mr. Chen Haiteng, Chief Representative in Japan, Baidu Japan Inc.

Language: Chinese with simultaneous translation into Japanese
Attendees:
Category: Entrepreneurship
Cost: Free
Networking session:
Keynote speaker: Professor Li Jiahua, Vice President of China Youth University for Political Sciences (CYUPS)
Schedules:
3:00pm - 4:00pm Keynote speech
Dr. Li Jiahua

4:00pm - 4:30pm Discussion
Moderator:
- Dr. Atsushi Sunami, Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
- Dr. Li Jiahua
- Mr. Chen Haiteng, Chief Representative in Japan, Baidu Japan Inc.

Contact: Ms. Kaneda or Ms. Iso (kouhou@grips.ac.jp)
GRIPS Office of Public and External Affairs, Ex. 2172

Language: English and Japanese
Attendees: Closed
Website: http://www.hondafoundation.jp/en/project/hondaprize/
Contact: Kihoko Suda (kihoko_suda@hondafoundation.jp)

Admission
Free of charge

Free Consultation Service
Legal affairs, invention, a financing, management, finance, business plan making conference, stock listing
Guest Speaker: Mr. Yoshihisa Aono, President - Cybozu Inc.

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Admission
Free of charge

Guest Speaker: Jeff Char Co-founder and Director at maneo Inc., Founder and
President at J-Seed Ventures, Inc.

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Business Plan Clinic, Networking event
Guest Speaker: Masao Ito, CEO - Userlocal Inc.

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Date & Venue:
Monday, November 13th, 2009
The Prince Park Tower Tokyo (Convention Hall)
http://www.princehotels.com/en/parktower

Title: "Thank you, Mr. Bobby Valentine and Mr. Satoru Komiyama ～We Love
Baseball～"
Bobby Valentine, recently retired Manager of Chiba Lotte Marines has been entrepreneurial in professional baseball space in Japan. He will talk about Leadership and decision making at opening talk session of the charity forum with also retired ex New York Met pitcher Satoru Komiyama, and former New Zealand All Blacks legendary rugby player John Kirwan.

Language: Japanese
Attendees: Open
Category: Charity
Cost: 8,000JPY (free for elementary students or younger)
Networking session:
Keynote speaker: Bobby Valentine, Satoru Komiyama（John Kirwan, Takeshi Okada）

Schedule:
6:00pm - Opening
6:15pm - 6:50pm Part 1: Special Seminar "About leadership"
6:50pm - 9:00pm Part 2: Charity Party (Auction, Concert)

http://www.jidai.or.jp

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

Schedule
[9:00am - 10:00am] Registration, coffee and networking
MC: Ms. Junko Hatayama

[10:00am - 10:30am] Keynote/Opening
Title: Entrepreneur = Change Agent
Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

[10:30am - 12:00pm] Session 1
Title: What Factors Are Affecting Entrepreneurship in Japan?
Starting a venture is a risky move that requires skills, drive, timing and luck. The roadblocks that the government, schools, peers, parents and other elements of Japanese society put up make becoming an entrepreneur in Japan even tougher. The Economist recently portrayed the state of entrepreneurship here as follows:

The latest GEM global report gives Japan the lowest score for entrepreneurship of any big country, placing it joint bottom with Greece. The brightest people want to work for large companies, with which the big banks work hand in glove, or for the government. Risk capital is rare. Bankruptcy is severely punished. And the small business sector is wrapped in cotton wool, encouraging "replicative" rather than "innovative" behaviour. Over the past quarter-century the rate at which Japan has been creating new businesses has been only one-third to half that in America.

Are these global perceptions of Japan's entrepreneurial environment fair and accurate, or way off? This session will delve into what things are really like here on the ground, and what changes would get more entrepreneurs on-stream and energized.

Moderator: Tim Kelly, Tokyo Bureau Chief, Forbes
Panelists:
- Takeshi Natsuno, Keio University Professor and inventor of the i-Mode
- Ernest Higa, Founder and CEO, Higa Industries
- Bill Hall, President, Synovate Healthcare
- Yoshiyuki Suzuki, CEO, Coach A

[12:00pm - 2:00pm] Lunch and presentation
Title: A Design Approach to Business, Education and Policy
Can the principles and process of design be used to streamline how businesses,
schools and governments work? The answer seems to be yes, whether it is an
entrepreneur trying to develop a new niche, an established company looking to create a lucrative new platform like the i-Phone, a social entrepreneur introducing a novel approach to social issues, or a government experimenting with a policy that will support a dynamic, competitive ecosystem. Design thinking is crucial throughout the process, and the practice is becoming more fundamental in the fast-changing global environment. Two leading Japanese designers will take you through their approaches and then engage in a dialogue with international business strategy professor Dr. Yoko Ishikura of Hitotsubashi University.

Moderator: Dr. Yoko Ishikura, Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate
Strategy (ICS), Hitotsubashi University
Speech: Naoki Sakai, CEO, Water Group
Speech: Kiyoyuki "Ken" Okuyama, CEO, Ken Okuyama Design

[2:00pm - 4:00pm] Session 2
Title: Peter Drucker and Social Entrepreneurship
GEW marks the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management and a man who foresaw the essence of "social innovation". This session celebrates the Drucker Centennial and discuss Drucker's innovation and its meaning in society. The panel will introduce examples of social entrepreneurs and discuss management approaches that trigger social innovation. In particular, the session will highlight how the scale of social enterprises has expanded. We will share the management challenges the expansion presents, find new ways of creating social innovation, and discuss the vision of social entrepreneurism.

Keynote: Dr. Ikujiro Nonaka, Emeritus Professor of Hitotsubashi University
Panel: "Creating Social Innovation"
Moderator: Akira Kojima, Special Advisor, Japan Center for Economic Research
Panalist:
- Tarou Shimane, President, Kids Base Camp Inc.
- Naoto Doi, CEO of Human Capital Management Inc / board member of the Drucker Workshop
- Atsuko Hattori, Executive Director of DSIA association
- William Saito, Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) / CEO, InTecur

[4:00pm - 4:15pm] Special Presentation
Title: Trends In Japanese Entrepreneurship: Data from a project at Stanford
University (STAJE) and the University of Tokyo

[4:15pm - 5:45pm] Session 3
Title: Entrepreneurial Success Stories
True entrepreneurs are the ones who keep standing back up after they get knocked down flat. While everybody loves to hear about the big successes, the horror stories
and comebacks are just as instructive. This session will showcase both angles. Some of the country's top entrepreneurs will zero in on key obstacles and opportunities in Japan, the sources of their success, how they deal with private and government nvestors, and their local and global aspirations. We'll also get into Japanese society's
attitudes toward entrepreneurship in general, right down to the family level and differences in views between generations.

Moderator: Noriko Maki, former announcer for TV Tokyo
Panelists:
- Harry Hill, CEO, Oak Lawn Marketing (Shop Japan)
- Jun Furukawa, CEO, Capital Medica Co. Ltd.
- Fujiyo Ishiguro, CEO, Netyear Group Corporation
- Robert Hori, CEO, Cybird

[5:45pm - 6:00pm] Closing Remarks
Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Minister, Internal Affairs and Communications