6th Asian SME Conference
September 10th–13th 2018, Tokyo, Japan

New development of small business policy and management:
Towards an evidence-based policy making for SMEs
Dates
Co-Organizers

September 10th (Mon) to 13th (Thu), 2018
JICSB, JSPS (118th Committee), ACSB, RIETISupporting organizations: JASBS, Shoko Chukin Bank, Shoko Research Institute,Hitotsubashi University, Musashi University

Preliminary Conference Program
DAY 1

Date: September 10Venue: Musashi University• Youth Camp Workshop: N. Takahashi, A. Kato

DAY 2Date: September 11Venue: Iino Hall/Conference• Opening Ceremony

Kartajaya Hermawan(ACSB President, Indonesia)

Atsushi Kato(JICSB Acting President, JP)

Ki-Chan Kim

Robert Lai(ACSB Founder, Korea)(ICSB President, Taiwan)

Hiroyuki Okamuro(ACSB 2018 Conference Chair, JP)• Plenary Session I: SME policy in Japan and Korea
Speeches by the Presidents of Small Business Agency
Presentation about SME policies• Plenary Session II: Keynote Speeches (Special Lectures)

Massimo Colombo(Politecnico di Milano, Italy, JSBM AE)

Dirk Czarnitzki(KU Leuven, Belgium)Mark Freel(University of Ottawa, Canada, JSBM AE)• Plenary Session III: Discussion on SME policy in Japan and East Asia
Chair: Masayuki Morikawa (RIETI VP, JP)
Panelists: Ing-Kuen (Peter) Lai (ITRI-IEK, Taiwan), Iichiro Uesugi (Hitotsubashi University/RIETI, JP),experts from Korea and other countries

DAY 3

Date: September 12

Venue: Iino Hall/Conference• 5 Special Sessions
1st Asian Forum of Global Initiatives for Humane Entrepreneurship (GIHE)
Ki-Chan Kim, selected humane entrepreneurs
Special Session for Marketing (Hermawan Kartajaya, Hooi Den Huan)
Invited Academic Sessions (Elena Cefis, Sadao Nagaoka, Alicia Robb, Hirofumi Uchida)Youth Camp Poster Presentations
Parallel Academic Sessions
Youth Camp Competition and Award
Best paper awards

Erik Stam(Utrecht University, NL, SBE editor)

List of conference speakers
Keynote speakers:

Other speakers:

Massimo Colombo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy, JSBM AE)
Dirk Czarnitzki (KU Leuven, Belgium)Mark Freel (University of Ottawa, Canada, JSBM AE)
Erik Stam (Utrecht University, NL, SBE editor)

Hisayoshi Ando (President of Small Business Agency Japan, JP)Elena Cefis (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Bernice Kotey (University of New England, SEAANZ, AUS)
Masayuki Morikawa (RIETI, JP)Sadao Nagaoka (Tokyo Keizai University/RIETI, JP)
Alicia Robb (Next Wave Impact, USA)
Ing-Kuen (Peter) Lai (ITRI-IEK, Taiwan)
Hirofumi Uchida (Kobe University, JP)

ICSB/ACSB:
Hooi Den Huan (ACSB VP, ICSB Singapore)
Hermawan Kartajaya (ACSB President, Indonesia)
Atsushi Kato (JICSB Acting President, JP)
Ki-Chan Kim (ACSB Founder, Past ICSB President, Korea)
Yong-Jin Kim (ACSB Executive Director, Korea)
Robert Lai (ICSB President, Taiwan)
Hiroyuki Okamuro (ACSB VP, Conference Chair, JP)
George Solomon (Editor-in-Chief of JSBM, USA)
Noriyuki Takahashi (ACSB VP, JP)Ayman Tarabishy (ICSB Executive Director, USA)ACSB Youth Camp 2018

Local Organizing Committee (JICSB):
Kiyoshi Hori (Logistics and Excursion, JP)Atsushi Kato (Youth Camp Co-Chair, JICSB Acting President, JP)
Masatoshi Kato (Program Chair, JP)
Tetsuya Komagata (Treasurer, JP)
Hiroyuki Okamuro (Conference Chair, ACSB VP, JP)
Noriyuki Takahashi (Youth Camp Co-Chair, ACSB VP, JP)
Iichiro Uesugi (SME Policy Panel, JP)

For College students, Graduate students and Anyone young at heart:

1. THEME
Creative, Challenging and humane: Workshop with a Humane entrepreneur and a Virtual Money Guru

2. FACULTY
Experts team led by Prof. Noriyuki Takahashi (VP, Musashi Univ. VP, ACSB)

3. DATE AND VENUE
Dates: September 10th – 12th, 2018
Main Venue: Musashi University https://www.musashi.ac.jp/english/index.html

4. ENROLLMENT FEE & Deadline
Early Bird
Until July 27th, 2018

Late
From July 28th, 2018
to August 27th, 2018

15,000 JPY

20,000 JPY

Fee including - Welcome Party (Sep. 10th)- Bus Trip (Sep. 11th)- Lunch (Sep 10th, Sep 11th & Sep. 12th)- Admission to the Asian SME Conference on Sep. 12th
- Coffee Break (Sep. 12th)
Deadline for the application: August 27, 2018

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY
Leader:Co-leader:Prof. Noriyuki Takahashi

Olivia Lu

Vice President of ACSB for Education

Vice President of ACSB for Youth, Women, Netizen

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