KGC

YUZO SHIBATA, President of KGC, is going to hold a "MOBILE SALON" during lunch time of "The 6th Annual Meeting of Industry-Academia-Government corporation (San-Gaku-Kan Renkei Suishin Kaigi)" at Kyoto on June 16 (Sat).

Feel free to join us !!

# What is "MOBILE SALON" ?
An opportunity where several people of various background get together and enjoy intellectual conversations. A staff of KGC hosts this MOBILE SALON anywhere on the earth.

# Who can participate ?
Anyone who is creating, or willing to create the Future can come.
-Any occupation, age or nationality welcome.
-However, we ask those who are critics, halfway or not moving to put off participating.

# Archives
in Kyoto & Tokyo, Japan
in Sendai, Japan
in Tokyo, Japan
in Osaka, Japan

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Date: May 16 (Sat) 2007, AM 11:45 - 13:15
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Host:
YUZO SHIBATA, President of KGC

Guest:
Dr. MOTOYUKI OKADA, Executive Director of AREC
[Profile]
As a Executive Director of AREC, he has make real "the economically-viable incubator". This activity of him is being attracted a great deal of attention from all over Japan. More information is on http://www.npo-kgc.or.jp/ip/1009.html
[Awards]
JANBO Awards 2004 (won three awards)
[Website]
http://blog.livedoor.jp/arec8029/

Theme of the Salon:
"Innovation: From a raw stone to a precious stone"
How should the "raw stone" found by digging down the indigenous community be polished to the "precious stone" by getting it in the world's context ?

Place:
Some cafe around the Kyoto International Conference Center

Number of people:
About 5

Participation fees:
About 1000 yen (as drinking and eating fee)

How to participate ?
Send e-mail to HERE with your name and telephone number.
# The place will be told from the host.
# First come, first served if applicants are too much.

Mobile-Salon.
It is an opportunity where the stuffs of KGC and the people
with great deal of intellectual curiosity get together somewhere in the universe,
and enjoy intellectual exchanges.

Today's mastor of the salon was Yuzo Shibata, President of KGC.
And the salon was held at Asian Men-Cha, Osaka, Japan.

Exotic enough to be beyond the common wisdom

Today's theme was "the Days in Research Idea Competition in Dubai".
Shibata introduced his own experiences in Dubai, where he introduced research ideas to the investors.

Here were what were mentioned in the salon.

"What is a business model of Dubai ?"
"How Dubai increases its value and continue to attract the world's attention ?"

"Dubai has both Japanese mind and non-Japanese mind"
"Two engines to drive Dubai"
"Can they survive in without any passion ?"

"Even terrorists can't be aggressive in Dubai"
"Arabian Night"
"It's house of cards, literally"
"People don't cheat each other while both of them have Dubai nationarity"
"No person in the newly-constructed apartment, except me"
"Indigenousness and Innovation"

Even after about 2 hours of discussion, guests couldn't stop discussion.