Day 1: January 10
9:20-9:30
Greetings
Toshiyuki Kono
Welcome Address
Norio Tanaka (Dean, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University)
Keynote
9:30-10:30
Jurgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law): Boosting the Economy: Special Economic Zones or Nationwide Deregulation?
Break 10:30-10:40
Panel 1. Regulatory Choice: A Government Perspective
Chair: Caslav Pejovic
10:40-11:00
Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago): Renting Constitutional Law: Theory and Practice
11:00-11:20
Carsten Herresthal (University of Regensburg): Protection of Freedom of Contract by Private Law after Deregulation
11:20-11:40
Wolfgang Wurmnest (University of Augsburg): Special Economic Zones, Deregulation and Competition Law
11:40-12:10
Q&A
Lunch 12:10-13:30
Panel 2. Regulatory Choice: A Corporate Perspective
Chair: Mark Fenwick
13:30-13:50
Masato Hisatake (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry): Can Fukuoka be a New York with a Palo Alto?
13:50-14.10
Jun Saito (Nikon Corporation): The Rise of the Partnership Economy
14:10-14-30
Shinto Teramoto (Kyushu University): Who is Best Able to Diffuse Innovation - Government, Academia, Industry, or the Inventor?
14:30-14:50
Brian Park (Philips): Talent in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital
14:50-15:20
Q&A
Break 15:20-15.40
Panel 3. Regulatory Choice: A Talent Perspective
Chair: Stefan Wrbka
15:40-16:00
Lawrence Dooley (University of Cork): Nurturing Absorptive Capacity within Ireland’s Innovation Ecosystem
16:00-16:20
Erik Vermeulen (Tilburg University): Made in Japan: The Fukuoka Start-up Scene
16:20-16:40
Caslav Pejovic (Kyushu University): Reforming the Japanese Labor Law: Hurdles on the Road to Abenomics
16:40-17:10
Q&A
Day 2: January 11
Panel 4. The Law & Economics of New Economic Zones
Chair: Erik Vermeulen
10:00-10:20
David Eckner (Heinrich Heine University): A Matter of Choice? The (Un-)Written Rules of Economic Zones and Sociological Approaches
10:20-10:40
Toshiyuki Kono (Kyushu University): Institutional Analysis of Mode as a Key for Innovation and the Role of Law
10:40-11:00
Hideaki Shiroyama (University of Tokyo): Transition Management for Technological Innovation
11:00-11:30
Q&A
11:30
Closing Remarks
Toshiyuki Kono |
