2007/08/06 10:10 Jim Kijima, "Smart ISSS", ISSS Tokyo 2007
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Jim Kijima
Talk purposes:
- Power of an academic society in general
- ISSS
Three concepts:
- Hard power, soft power, smart power
Original idea from Joseph Nye, well known in International Politics
- Power of a nation as hard power and soft power
- Hard power as military and economic power, as the basis for getting other countries to change their position
- Soft power as ability to move people by argument
- Shape preferences of other countries
Smart power as an integration of hard power and soft power
- Ability to attract others
Smart power of an academic society
- Ability to attract stakeholders/clients
Stakeholders:
- Researchers and practitioners, especially young
- Society, including government and public sectors
Systems sciences as a new generation Liberal Arts
- Propose a new direction
Research aims:
- Shared map
- Methodologies
- Systems models and systems concepts
- Induction, deduction, abduction
Systems science should be like an intelligence common knowledge, in the next generation
Education:
- Provide ways of thinking
In Japan, people still have a bit more patience towards academic research that doesn't necessarily produce direct and short-term returns
Fund raising
- Need to enhance international collaboration
- Next program: global COE
- ISSS could play some role in facilitating and coordinating
Ambition in Japan: to launch a network hub of systems research with support by the Japanese government in 2009
