{"id":6638,"date":"2017-07-11T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2017-07-13T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:04:37","slug":"event-how-to-improve-our-society-through-new-businesses-creation-memory-of-tomoatsu-godai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/event-how-to-improve-our-society-through-new-businesses-creation-memory-of-tomoatsu-godai\/","title":{"rendered":"[Event PR] How to Improve our Society through New Business Creation? Memory of Tomoatsu Godai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our society is facing many problems associated with poverty, cultural conflict, health, environment, technology management and so on. One of the approaches taken to tackle these major issues in modern days is social entrepreneurship, where entrepreneurs intelligently blend profit and social return to establish a sustainable platform in a form of start-up company or other types of enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The UK is the founder of the concept of Social Entrepreneurship, where Japanese social entrepreneur Godai Tomoatsu studied 150 years ago. On his return to Japan, through his own business with a social entrepreneurial vision, Godai led the city of Osaka to \u201cManchester of Orient\u201d. The aim of the symposium is to discuss the past, present and future of social entrepreneurship, starting with revisiting Godai\u2019s vision, with representatives of academia, local government, business accelerators and actual entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium will start with a keynote lecture by Prof. Nick Tyler (UCL Transport Institute), which will be followed by 8 talks about social entrepreneurship from academic, political, economical and entrepreneurs&#8217; point of view, as well as supporting structures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/uk-japan-social-entrepreneurship-symposium-memory-of-tomoatsu-godai-tickets-35696721856?utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;aff=escb&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;utm-term=listing\">Registrations can be made here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the symposium, UCL-Osaka reception will be held in UCL North Cloisters ( a Mr.one-minute walk from the symposium venue).<\/p>\n<p>WHEN<br \/>\nFriday, 28 July 2017<br \/>\nSymposium: 13:00 &#8211; 17:00<br \/>\nReception: 18:00 &#8211; 20:00<br \/>\nConfirmed speakers<br \/>\nProf. Nick Tyler (Chadwick Chair of Civil Engineering, UCL Transport Institute<br \/>\nMr Tadahiko Yanai (Manager for Innovation, Economic Strategy Bureau, Osaka City Government)<br \/>\nProf. Toshiya Hoshino (Osaka University, Japan)<br \/>\nMs Milimer Morgado (Young Entrepreneur)<br \/>\nMr Soto Yamauchi (Young Entrepreneur, Walt, Inc.)<br \/>\nMs Tomoko Watanabe (Urban Innovation Institute, Japan)<br \/>\nMs Yuliana Topalzy and Ms Anna Sexton (UCL Entrepreneurship)<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by:<br \/>\nOsaka City Government<br \/>\nGreat Britain Sasakawa Foundation<br \/>\nJapan Foundation<br \/>\nCouncil of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR), Japan<br \/>\nJapan Society for the Promotion of Science<br \/>\nEmbassy of Japan in the UK<br \/>\nUCL Grand Challenges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our society is facing many problems associated with poverty, cultural conflict, health, environment, technology management and so on. 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