Implementing Sustainability Innovation: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, and Institutional Design
Dr. Masaru Yarime, Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science at the University of Tokyo, will speak on the topic of “Implementing Sustainability Innovation: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, and Institutional Design” on Monday, November 16, 2009, from 2:30 to 4:00 pm at the Clary Theater in the Bill Moore Student Success Center at Georgia Tech (219 Uncle Heinie Way, NW, Atlanta, GA 30332). Seating is limited to one hundred guests. A reception will follow the lecture.
Dr. Yarime’s current research includes corporate strategy, public policy, and institutional design for sustainability innovation, economics and policy studies of technological change, university-industry collaboration, and institutional analysis of knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Technological Change from the
University
of
Maastricht
, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, and a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the
University
of
Tokyo
. Prior to joining the
University
of
Tokyo
faculty in 2006, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Tokyo and was a research associate at the
Research
Center
for Advanced Economic Engineering at the
University
of
Tokyo
. He has also worked as research assistant at the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies, in
Maastricht
, The Netherlands. He is the editor of the publication Sustainability Science and executive editor of the Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Yarime’s lecture is sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan in
Atlanta
and the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, in association with the Japan-America Society of Georgia and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Georgia. The event is free and open to the public.
