SciREX Online One-day Summer School 2020
APPLICATION GUIDELINES
August 21, 2020
SciREX Core Centers, SciREX Center
Point:The SciREX Program, having its 5 core centers at 6 universities (GIPS, University of Tokyo,Hitotsubashi University, Osaka University/Kyoto University, and Kyushu University), promotes
training of people who will be engaged in making evidence-based policies, new research area of"science of science, technology and innovation policy," and those who will connect policy andresearch. At the same time, the Program carries world-class research and human resources
training to carry relevant basic research.

The SciREX Program has annually held Summer Camp (see the past camps here), butfor this particular year of 2020 it will hold a One-day Online Summer School as below.
It will be a Webinar by inviting several faculty members of the SciREX Core Centers andmembers of the related organizations as speakers, which will provide the participants with anopportunity to understand the Core Centers' activities, share their research results, and exchange
opinions. An optional online social networking activity will also be held after school. The
lectures in Japanese will have a Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation service.
Outline:Date & Time: Saturday, September 19, 2020 10:00-17:30
Sponsors: SciREX Core Centers, SciREX Center
Language: Japanese with Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation service
Fee: Free
Eligible participants: Those interested in science, technology and innovation policy (highschool students and up); Those involved in SciREX projects; Faculty members and those
involved in the educational programs at the SciREX Core Centers; Government officials
involved in the SciREX Program
Venue: ZOOM online webinar
Number of participants: Up to 300 people
Registration: through the application form : Please note that your request for the luncheon
topic may not always be accepted.
Application deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Questions: to Scirex-center@grips.ac.jp
Schedule:
10:00-12:10 Lecture 1 "EBPM for STI Policy in the Changing World"
MC: SUMIKURA Koichi, Professor, GRIPS
Lecturers:
ARIMOTO Tateo, Adjunct Professor, GRIPS; KURODA Masahiro, Adjunct Professor, GRIPS,KAWAKAMI Koji, Professor, Kyoto University; SANO Wataru, Professor, Kyoto University
12:10-13:00 BREAK: Lunch-time Sessions (12:15-12:55), inviting government officials; ifinterested, select the topic you wish to participate on the registration form.
Topic 1: "European Countries’ Science and Technology Policies: What Japan can learn fromthe European countries that make policies beyond the country borders"Lecturer: IWABUCHI Hideki, Director, International Nuclear and Fusion Energy Affairs
Division, Research and Development Bureau, MEXT
(Former Counsellor, Mission of Japan to the EU)
Topic 2: "Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in a Changing Era (focusing on the newcorona virus disease)
Lecturer: NAKAZAWA Keita, Planning Director, Bureau of Science, Technology andInnovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Topic 3: "Science, Innovation, and Diplomacy/Security: from Cases of Quantum Technology,
AI, and Cybersecurity"
Lecturer: UEDA Mitsuyuki, Counsellor, National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for
Cybersecurity (NISC), Cabinet Secretariat
13:00-15:00 Lecture 2 "Innovation Creation in Local Areas"
Lecturers:
NAGATA Akiya, Professor, Kyushu University
ETO Manabu, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
15:00-15:15 BREAK
15:15-17:15 Lecture 3 "Evidence to Make Decisions for Crisis Governance andCommunication"
Lecturers:
SHIROYAMA Hideaki, Professor, University of Tokyo
MATSUO Makiko, Project Associate Professor, University of TokyoHIRAKAWA Hideyuki, Professor, Osaka University
YAGI Ekou, Professor, Osaka University
Commentator:
TANAKA Mikihito, Associate Professor, Waseda University
17:30 ADJOURN
17:30-19:30 Networking (Optional): The participants can have free discussions on theirconcerns and research.
[Students’ presentations]: Students will have an opportunity (casual, not formal) to make
1-2 paged power point presentations, including their self-introductions. If you wish tomake such a presentation, please check mark the item on the registration form. It would
be a good opportunity to have comments from the faculty members and students of otheruniversities.
Lectures and Luncheon Topics Outlines:
Lecture 1

EBPM for STI Policy in the Changing World

MC &MC: SUMIKURA Koichi, Professor, GRIPS

Lecturers

Lecturers: ARIMOTO Tateo, Adjunct Professor, GRIPSKURODA Masahiro, Adjunct Professor, GRIPSKAWAKAMI Koji, Professor, Kyoto University
SANO Wataru, Professor, Kyoto University

OutlineProf. Arimoto will introduce how the Evidence Based Policy Making (EBPM) has developedand what the issues are by showing cases and theories. First he will present how the sciencepolitics-society has changed in recent years by following the discussions at the United
Nations (UN), OECD, and the International Network for Government Science Advice(INGSA). It will include the issues surfaced from the new corona virus pandemic. Prof.
Kuroda will present the SciREX Program activities and show the domestic issues thatemerged by promoting the Program. Prof. Sano will talk about the theoretical background ofEBPM, and Prof. Kawakami will show how the local governments’ data on school physicalexam can be used for policy formation. The speakers will discuss among themselves,followed by a discussion with the participants.

Lecture 2

Innovation Creation in Local Areas

Lecturers

NAGATA Akiya, Professor, Kyushu University
ETO Manabu, Professor, Hitotsubashi University

OutlinePart 1: “Is it possible to create an “Innovation Ecosystem”? (Prof. Nagata) “Innovation
Ecosystem” is a metaphor for the interaction between various players involved in creating
innovation and the ecosystem surrounding it. This word appeared in the 1990’s to reflect theproblem that innovation cannot be realized only by the efforts within corporate organizations,and has spread to be used at policy discussions after 2000. Such policies that try to create aninnovation ecosystem has recently been introduced to Japan as seen in the MEXT’s Local
Ecosystem Formation Program. However, this ecosystem metaphor tells that its sustainability
as a system depends on the exquisite balance between the players, which makes it uneasy tointroduce it as a policy. The lecture extracts the factors for an innovation ecosystem to becreated from the cases in the local areas where an innovation ecosystem is in the early stageof establishment, and discusses the policy issues for an innovation ecosystem to be created.
Part 2: “What are the Local Areas’ strengths to Create Innovation” (Prof. Eto) It looks
like that an innovation ecosystem is easily created in urban areas like Tokyo where funds,
information, and human resources are abundant. However, local areas have various factors
specific to the area, e.g., resources, culture and rules. If an innovation ecosystem is createdbased on these factors, innovation creation is realized in local areas. The lecture will use suchcases as “Yubari Coal Mine Zuri (to convert waste to resources),” “Fine Bubble in Kochi andMiyagi (to find the areas where the technologies can be used),” “Tuna in Miyagi (good use of
the difference in place and time for supply and demand),” “Towel in Imabari and Senshu(combination of local area trademarks and branding),” “Electric assisted bicycle (By-country
difference of rules). These cases make us think about the involvement of stakeholders for aninnovation creased from “difference” and how to use policies.
The session will have 30-minutes Q&A and discussion between the speakers.

Lecture 3

Evidence to Make Decision for Crisis Governance and Communication

Lecturers

Lecturers: SHIROYAMA Hideaki, Professor, University of Tokyo&MATSUO Makiko, Project Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

Commentator

HIRAKAWA Hideyuki, Professor, Osaka University
YAGI Ekou, Professor, Osaka University
Commentator：TANAKA Mikihito, Associate Professor, Waseda University

OutlineIn the midst of the new corona virus pandemic severely affecting the society, how the“evidence” for making decisions and the communication with the society should be are newlyquestioned. The response to infectious diseases is a comprehensive political and policy
decision on “various miscellaneous items” including economic and social effects, in addition
to the “scientific advice” of the infectious disease itself. What the evidence is, how to make itevidence, who provides it, how to prioritize and make decision on them, and how toappropriately relay the message to society: all of these bring such issues as system design for
decision making, how the specialists (both science and non-science fields) are involved,
distance between specialists and political and policymaking people, risk information
communication and behavior, establishment of trust, and stakeholders’ involvement inpolicymaking. These issues have been discussed every time when issues of science-society
interaction emerged as seen in BSE and Great East Japan Earthquake cases. Based on that,
another question arises as to what has repeatedly discussed (and ultimately solved), what has
been left as issues, what the newly emerging issues are. Also, to be considered is what should
be done in parallel to be prepared in the future when encountering similar cases.
This session consists of 2 parts. The first half will be lectures based on the relevant subjects inthe SciREX Core Contents and deepen them with examples. Concretely, based on the lectures
on Governance/system design (Prof. Matsuo, University of Tokyo) and Society andCommunication (Prof. Hirakawa, Osaka University), such cases as the new corona virus
pandemic (Prof. Shiroyama, University of Tokyo) and Great East Japan Earthquake (Prof.
Yagi, Osaka University) will be presented. The latter half will be allocated for discussions
among the lecturers followed by a discussion open to the participants via an online tool.

Luncheon

European Science and Technology Policy: What Japan can learn from the European

Topic 1countries that make policies beyond country borders

Lecturer

IWABUCHI Hideki, Director, International Nuclear and Fusion Energy Affairs Division,
Research and Development Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology (MEXT)(Former Counsellor, Mission of Japan to the EU)

OutlineHe will talk about his experience of working as Counsellor for Science and Technology,
Education, Culture and Sports, at the Mission of Japan to the EU in Brussels for 3 years from2017-2020. The science and technology policies in Europe stem from the crisis they felt in
1970-80 days that the US and Japan were to surpass their technological level, which triggered
the European countries to promote science and technology policies altogether. Consequently,
the number of papers per EU27 countries’ population has increased very fast to reach 1.5
times of that for Japan these days. Twenty-eight European countries produce more papers per
population than that for Japan, leaving Japan to learn a lot from them. He will briefly
introduce the history and current status of the European science and technology policies.

Luncheon

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in a Changing Era (focusing on the new corona virus

Topic 2disease)

Lecturer

NAKAZAWA Keita, Planning Director, Bureau of Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet
OfficeOutlineJapan’s “6th Science, Technology and Innovation Basic Plan” will begin in 2021. The Basic
Plan is established every 5 years and the 6th Basic Plan is under discussion at the Japanese
government. The new corona virus pandemic has totally changed the world. Where our daily
life is heading for and how the international relations will change? The science, technology
and innovation policies are closely related to such directions and results of change. He will
introduce the points and issues in establishing the next Basic Plan.

Luncheon

Science, Innovation, and Diplomacy/Security: from Cases of Quantum Technology, AI, andTopic 3

CybersecurityLecturer

UEDA Mitsuyuki, Counsellor, National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for
Cybersecurity (NISC), Cabinet Secretariat

OutlineFourteen years have passed since a prominent paper on deep learning was made public; 21years since a prominent paper on superconductive quantum bit was made public; Cases areseen these days that science causes innovation and affects the competition between countriesand technological supremacy (including diplomacy and security). By overviewing the trends
in quantum technology, AI, and cybersecurity, he will challenge the following difficult
questions and use half of his time for Q&A and discussions.
1. The “sign” in science can be measured real time? When is a good time for leveraging
science and technology policies?
2. Assuming that US-China conflict continues, what stance Japan should take and what kindof science and technology policies Japan should take?
3. How can we use EBPM in coping with these critical issues?