Keynote

Kohei Itoh, president of Keio University, will interview Hiroshi Amano, professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya University, about how the higher education research ecosystem may be best resourced, regulated and evaluated to encourage the research breakthroughs required in a vulnerable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment.

In Europe, mission-orientated innovation is a new policy designed to help find responses to the grand challenges facing a VUCA world. In this session, Professor Amano will give an insight into what that model might look like in an East Asian context, based on his experience of research and development that led to his shared Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014.