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Program (Presentation Materials)

Day 1: Open Symposium (March 13, 2008)

9:30–10:00 Opening Remarks
9:30–9:40 Greetings Ichiro Kanazawa
9:40–9:50 Greetings Kiyoshi Kurokawa
9:50–10:00 Greetings Fumio Kishida

Part I: Plenary Session

10:00–12:00 Keynote Speeches
10:00–10:30 Urgent Need for "Sustainability Development" Motoyuki Suzuki
10:30–11:00 Competitiveness: Where America Stands Chad Evans
11:00–11:30 State Aids in Europe: Lessons from the French National Innovation Agency Jean-Philippe Touffut
11:30–12:00 Addressing for Climate Change and Energy Issues of Gobal Steel Industry: From the Point of Technology Diffusion and Innovation Akio Mimura
12:00–13:00 Lunch Break

Part II: GIES for Addressing the Global Issues

13:00–14:00 Toward Establishing the GIES Toshiaki Ikoma
13:00–13:10 Toward Establishing the GIES Toshiaki Ikoma
13:10–13:30 Concept of GIES Concept team
13:30–14:00 Establishing and Utilizing GIES: The Role of Business Innovation in Solving Global Policy Issues Richard B. Dasher
14:00–16:15 Global Issues Need to be Addressed by the GIES
14:00–14:30 The Need for Clean Energy: The Photovoltaic Power Generation Era is Coming Yukinori Kuwano
14:30–15:00 Toward the Realization of Society for Sustainable Mobility Hiroyuki Watanabe
15:00–15:30 Water Resources Management in Thailand: Problems And Challenges Monthip S. Tabucanon
15:30–16:00 A New Strategy on Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century Yoshihiro Hayashi
16:00–16:15 Comments Itaru Yasui
16:15–16:30 Break

Part III: Concrete Proposals for Establishing the GIES

16:30–18:00 Necessary Actions for Establishing the GIES Tateo Arimoto
16:30–16:50 Introduction of Strategic Proposals Representatives of each project team
Kazunobu Tanaka
Kunihiko Niwa
Kotaro Inoue
Kayano Fukuda
16:50–17:00 Approach of Ministries and Government Offices Kimikazu Iwase
Keisuke Saito
17:00–18:00 General Discussion

<Moderator>

Tateo Arimoto
<Panelists>
Chad Evans
Jean-Philippe Touffut
Monthip S. Tabucanon
Takeshi Saito
Yasuo Nishiguchi
Masahiro Kuroda
Yuko Harayama
Kimikazu Iwase
Keisuke Saito
<Rapporteur>
Mari Jibu

18:00–18:15 Closing
Toshiaki Ikoma
Shizuo Hoshiba
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Day 2: Closed Workshop by invitation (March 14, 2008)

09:30–10:30 Opening and Setting the Tone Toshiaki Ikoma
Yuko Harayama
Session Chairs
10:30–14:30 Parallel Sessions *Chair
**Organizer
Session 1 Effective Utilization of Natural Energy Hisashi Ishitani*
Kazunobu Tanaka**
Makoto Konagai
Kazunari Domen
Kinya Sakanishi
Thomas B. Johansson
Porponth Sichanugrist
Session 2 Low Environmental Impact Transportation Systems Eiichi Yamaguchi*
Kunihiko Niwa**
Iwao Yamamoto
A. Koichi Hayashi
Hiroyuki Morikawa
Hisashi Tsukamoto
Session 3 Safe Water Supply Shinichiro Ohgaki*
Kotaro Inoue**
Masataka Watanabe
Taikan Oki
Shishan Qiao
Monthip S. Tabucanon
Session 4 Stable Supply of High-Value Added Food Yoshihiro Hayashi*
Kayano Fukuda**
Naoko NIshizawa
Howarth E. Bouis
Apichart Vanavichit
Session 5 Measuring Innovation: What is the measure for "Outcome" of Innovation and How to evaluate “Effect of the Policy Instruments” Masahiro Kuroda*
Takanobu Nakajima
Banri Ito
Lennart Grundberg
Chad Evans
Jean-Philippe Touffut
Richard B. Dasher
14:30–15:00 Break
15:00–16:50 Panel Discussion and Wrap Up Atsushi Sunami
16:45–17:00 Closing Tateo Arimoto
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