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Programme

*The following programme only lists the corresponding authors.
**All times are listed in ICT (UTC+7; Thailand).
The following programme is subject to change.

Day 1: 25 August 2023 (Friday)

09:00 – 09:20Welcome speech and opening remarks
Suvit Saetia, President, KMUTT
Bank Ngamarunchot, Director, STIPI, KMUTT
Jewellord Nem Singh, Project leader, ISS, Netherlands
09:20 – 10:50Roundtable discussion
CHEN Ling, Tsinghua University, China
Gale Raj-Reichert, Bard College Berlin, Germany
Sirinya Lim, NXPO, Thailand
    Moderated by
Jewellord Nem Singh, ISS, Netherlands
10:50 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30Panel discussion 1: “New” industrial policy
Startup-centric innovation policy: a text-as-data approach
Julian Seng
Scaleup among circular startups: a case analysis and policy framework for promoting industrial transformation
Kris Hartley, Maarten Heerink, Julian Kirchherr
Analysis of the impact of the national policy on the private partnership
between foreign firms and domestic tech startups in developing – evidence of startups in Rwanda
Kopati Gbali Carl Adams
12:30 – 14:00Lunch and networking
14:00 – 15:30Keynote lecture 1
Antonio Andreoni
    Professor of Development Economics, SOAS University of London, UK
Ha-Joon Chang
    Research Professor of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK
15:30 – 16:00Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00Panel discussion 2: New paradigm and tools for industrial policy
A new window of opportunity?
Explaining the influence of China’s involvement in energy transitions across developing countries
– XIE Mengying, CHEN Ling
The new industrial policy and the political economy of conditionality:
a literature review and research agenda
Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor
17:00 – 18:00Day closing discussion
Linda TJIA Yin Nor, City University of Hong Kong
Pablo Heidrich, Carleton University, Canada / GRIPS, Japan

Day 2: 26 August 2023 (Saturday)

09:00 – 10:00Keynote lecture 2
Patarapong INTARAKUMNERD
    Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan
10:00 – 10:30Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00Panel discussion 3: EV and batteries
Lithium industrial policy in Chile:
nested boutique progressivism or harbinger of change
Pablo Heidrich
State industrial policy and local industrial coalition:
evidence from the pharmaceutical industry in Incheon, South Korea
(Rescheduled from Panel 4)
Kahee Jo, Sukjin Yoon
The development of electric vehicles (EVs) in China:
an analysis of industrial policy and upgrading
Ricardo LOPES KOTZ
12:00 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Panel discussion 4: Regional innovation system
Regional Innovation System and “Kosetsushi” in Japan
KONDO Masayuki
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market
(Rescheduled from Panel 2)
Donato Di Carlo
Upgrading Mongolia’s Camel Wool Supply Chain
Linda TJIA Yin Nor, Guanie LIM
15:00 – 15:30Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00Panel discussion 5: Energy and vaccine
Scarce energy and market abundance?
Building project-based capability through renewable energy transition
MITA Kaori
Navigating the energy transition and industrial decarbonisation:
Ghana’s latest approach to developing an integrated bauxite-to-aluminium industry
Theo Acheampong, Matthew Tyce
Do vaccines require industrial policy? Some thoughts from Japanese case
IIZUKA Michiko
17:00 – 18:00Day closing discussion
Linda TJIA Yin Nor, City University of Hong Kong
Pablo Heidrich, Carleton University, Canada / GRIPS, Japan

Day 3: 27 August 2023 (Sunday)

09:00 – 10:00Panel discussion 6: Green industrial policy and semiconductor industry
Japan’s crossover industrial policy for green upgrading
Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Yasushi Ueki
The geopolitics of the green transition and critical strategic minerals
Anil Hira
10:00 – 10:30Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30Panel discussion 7: Case studies on specific industry or area
China’s Development Strategy in Critical Raw Materials and
Lessons for the Developing World in the Clean Energy Transition
Jewellord Nem Singh, Yingfeng Ji
A race for chip talent: evidence from China and Taiwan
TO Yee Man Yvette
11:30 – 12:30Day closing discussion
Linda TJIA Yin Nor, City University of Hong Kong
Pablo Heidrich, Carleton University, Canada / GRIPS, Japan
12:30 – 14:30Extended lunch and networking
14:30 – 15:30Launch of a new special issue in Third World Quarterly
Designing and Negotiating Industrial Policy:
Prospects and Challenges for State-led Development in the 21st Century
15:30 – 16:00Conference closing discussion
Jewellord Nem Singh, Project leader, ISS, Netherlands
Bank Ngamarunchot, Director, STIPI, KMUTT
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break
18:00 – 20:00Official dinner