Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides ( London School of Economics)

Sir Christopher Pissarides holds the Regius Chair of Economics at the London School of Economics, the Chair of European Studies at the University of Cyprus and he co-chairs the Institute for the Future of Work, based in London. He specializes in the economics of labor markets, economic growth and structural change, especially as they relate to market frictions, where his work has been especially influential. In 2010 Sir Christopher was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on the labor market, sharing it with Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University and Peter Diamond of MIT, and in 2005 he became the first European economist to win the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, sharing it again with his collaborator Dale Mortensen.


Ms. Yuko Harayama (Riken)

Yuko Harayama, Executive Director at Riken, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, is the former Executive Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office of Japan. She is the former Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD. She combines academic and policy expertise on the topics of innovation policies.


Center for Global Innovation Studies

The Center for Global Innovation Studies (GIC) was founded in January 2016, with the goal of promoting the study of global innovation. Its mission is the advancement of research on innovation theory and methodology that impacts diverse systems within today’s global society.
GIC’s research contributes to the development of influential and knowledgeable individuals who will carry global innovation forward. Through this research, GIC strives to more deeply understand the mechanisms and interactions of globalization and innovation, and play a leading role in achieving a truly fair, affluent and dynamic international society.
Further, GIC contributes to international intellectual exchange, and the development of a stronger foundation for future growth of the global society through its Intellectual Exchange platform.

CREATOYO

The Mosaic Network of Schools in Creativity and Innovation, an international community of individuals passionate about the management of creativity and innovation was launched in 2016. It all began in 2009, when Mosaic HEC Montréal created the Summer School on Management of Creativity in an Innovation Society, in collaboration with the University of Barcelona. In 2010 the Bureau for Economic Theory and Applications (BETA) at Strasbourg University, France, created the Autumn School on Management of Creativity. The latest member of this network is the Department of Global Innovation Study, Toyo University which joined in 2019 with a training program called “creatoyo”.