Theme (& Keynote) on Sep. 5: Innovation Policy in the Structural Transformation Era

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1 Provisional Outline of The 14 th International Conference on Industrial Technology Innovation Date: 2013, Sep. 5-6 (Thursday and Friday) Location and structure: Day 1: in Taipei City - open to academics, businesses and government officials (app. 200 attendees) Day 2: in Yilan County, expert workshop (by invitation only, app. 35 attendees) (Day 3: Local tour in Yilan to be arranged) Theme (& Keynote) on Sep. 5: Innovation Policy in the Structural Transformation Era Agenda: In a structural transformation era, we are now facing a series of new challenges, e.g. climate change, energy and resource scarcity, population aging, commoditization and low-profit margin of ICTs, globalization of R&D and manufacturing, limited government R&D budget, quality and quantity of higher education How to design and implement innovation policy to meets these grand challenges is the most important agenda we like to address and discuss in the conference. Session: Time Topic Speaker 08:20 Leave from Riviera hotel to the venue (National Central Library) 09:00-09:05 Welcome/Opening Remark VIP from MOEA 09:05-09:10 Moderator Remark Dr. David S. Hong President of TIER Keynote: How to design innovation 09:10-10:00 policy: identification of systemic problems 10:00-10:10 Coffee Break 10:10-11:00 Innovation Policy in USA 1 Prof. Charles Edquist Dr. Charles Wessner TIE NAS

2 11:00-11:50 Innovation Policy in Japan 11:50-12:00 Q&A 2 Junko Okayama Fellow CRDS, JST 12:00-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-13:40 Moderator Remark Vice President of CIER 13:40-14:20 Innovation Policy in Prof. Charles Edquist 14:20-15:00 Innovation Policy in the UK Kirsten Bound NESTA 15:00-15:10 Coffee Break 15:10-15:50 Innovation Policy in Taiwan Dr. Chen, S. H. CIER Panel Discussion (incl. Q&A open to the floor) moderator: VP of CIER panelist:dr. Wessner 15:50-16:30 (Each panelist gives Prof. Arimoto (JST) comments and thoughts on Miss Kirsten Bound(NESTA) others presentation for Dr. Chen, S. H. (CIER) several min.) 18:30 Dinner Reception (Regent Hotel Taipei) 21:00 *Stay in Riviera Hotel Taipei tonight Theme on Sep. 6 Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TIE) Agenda: Small businesses play an important role in creating new-technology innovation and economic growth. They generate significant employment, new markets and high-growth industries. In this era of low-economic growth, optimizing the ability of small businesses to develop and commercialize new products/services is essential for revitalizing economic momentum. Developing better incentives to spur innovative ideas, technologies and products/services and ultimately to bring them to market is thus a central

3 innovation policy challenge. On the second day of the conference, we will address this challenge. We will invite speakers from different countries to introduce their respective national policies (and policy tools) towards science & technology-based small business, technology transfer and commercialization, technological innovation, university-industry linkage, S&T based-entrepreneurship, etc. (To make it simple, we call them the TIE regime ). From all speakers introductions, we hope that we can know their TIE regimes process and operation in some details, and difficulties and successful cases. After that, in the afternoon-round Table, we will encourage all the attendees to give some comments or thoughts, and to share/discuss their respective experiences in TIE regime design and implementation, based on some suggested topics. Session: Time Topic 08:30 Leave from Riviera hotel Taipei to Yilan s venue (EVERGREEN Resort Hotel, JIAOSI) 10:00-10:10 Moderator/Opening Remark Prof. Wang, Kung 10:10-10:50 SBIR in USA Dr. Charles Wessner TIE NAS 10:50-11:30 TIE regime in Japan CRDS/JST 11:30-11:40 Coffee break 11:40-12:20 TIE regime in 12:20-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-14:10 TIE regime (SBRI) in the UK TIE regime in Taiwan 14:10-14:50 (policy tools: e.g. SBIR, SBIV, LEADING and Industrial TDP) 14:50-15:10 Coffee Break Prof. Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand Kirsten Bound NESTA Stephen Su General Director IEK, ITRI 3

4 Round Table sharing experiences in policy design and implementation Suggested topics for discussion and Lesson Learned Background and Rationales of National Policy Program How to assist science-based invention crossing the valley of death? Change or Evolution of National Policy Program If any, Why? Funding Mechanism How to Set Research Topics (how to decide what to fund)? What Criteria to Evaluate Proposal, How to 15:10-16:30 Manage Project? Stake Holders and Commercialization How to strengthen the linkage between university and industry? How to encourage more private investors taking part in high-risk R&D endeavor? Program Evaluation How to Evaluate the Efficacy of the Program? Needs and Services How to create a more friendly framework condition for S&T-based Entrepreneurship How to identify needs of and provide better support for S&T-based start-ups? 18:00- Casual Dinner Stay in Yilan s EVERGREEN RESORT HOTEL tonight (optional) *Staying in Yilan is optional, if you have early flight to catch next morning, you can choose to stay in Riviera hotel Taipei tonight; the conference organizer will arrange transportation for you. *A local tour in Yilan on Sep. 7 to be arranged (Optional). 4

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