On June 20th, the Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research and Centre for Japanese Research, supported by the Nissan Endowment Fund, and Centre for Korean Research, organized a panel event on the political economy of the digital and green technology industrial revolutions with the following motivation and objectives.
Motivation and Objective:
The current global order is undergoing two industrial revolutions at the same time: a digital revolution and a green technology revolution. Both together will reshape the global economy, affecting growth, power dynamics, and employment in the coming decades. The impact of these transformations extends beyond policy and economies. This is about a strategic competition for a leading position in the new economy and for shaping the rules of the game.
With this motivation, the event featured a panel of leading scholars and practitioners in conversation, aiming to:
1. To understand how states are responding to the new twin digital and green tech industrial revolutions and in what ways these structural changes provide novel incentives to states;
2. To identify a different typology of states’ responses and a causal mechanism behind the diversities in responses;
3. To discuss whether we are seeing a new escalating wave of state interventions and industrial policy.
Conference convenors
- Yves Tiberghien, Professor of Political Science, Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, and Director of the Center for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia
- Sun Ryung Park, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and IAR Fellow, UBC
Attended Panelists:
- Dr. Joanna Lewis, Georgetown University (remote)
- Dr. Llewelyn Hughes, Australian National University (remote)
- Dr. Yasuko Kameyama, University of Tokyo (remote)
- Dr. Pascale Massot, University of Ottawa (remote)
- Ishana Ratan, UC Berkeley (remote)
- Sun Ryung Park, University of British Columbia (in-person)
- Dr. Patrick Leblond, University of Ottawa (remote)
- Dr. Kenji Kushida, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (remote)
- Dr. Stephanie Honey, Centre for International Governance Innovation (remote)
- Dr. Elina Noor, Asia Society Policy Institute (in-person)
- Dr. Wooyeal Paik, Yonsei University (in-person)
- Yingqiu Kuang, University of British Columbia (in-person)
- Dr. Swaran Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University (remote)
- Dr. Benjamin Cohen, UC Santa Barbara (in-person)
- Dr. Eric Helleiner, U of Waterloo (remote)
- Dr. Kristen Hopewell, University of British Columbia (in-person)
- Dr. Chung-min Tsai, National Chengchi University (in-person)
