Previous Fora / 2013
ARIMOTO, Tateo
Professor and Director, STI Policy Program, National Graduate Institute for Polocy Studies, Japan
Tateo Arimoto is currently Professor, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program, GRIPS and Deputy Director-General of CRDS, JST. He has been involved in Japan’s S & T policy making intensely. He previously served as Executive Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet office. He held the position as a Director General of Science & Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education and Science. Mr. Arimoto now oversees an ambitious effort to foster innovation to address social challenges in the globally connected world.
He has published several books and numerous papers in quality journals and given many invited lectures. e.g. “Science and Technology Policy”(by T. Arimoto, in Have Japanese Firms Changed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), “Rebuilding Public Trust in Science for Policy Making”(by T. Arimoto and Y. Sato, Science, vol.337, pp1176-1177, 2012)