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Welcome Message
Prof. Umran S. İnan
President, Koç
University
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The 16th Kyoto University International Symposium focuses
primarily on efficient, smart growth and development, both of which are primary
goals of both Koç University and Kyoto University.
I strongly believe that the Koç
University – Kyoto
University International Symposium on Innovative and Sustainable Development
opens new paths for a better world.
Founded in 1993 as a non-profit private university in Istanbul, Turkey,
Koç University seeks to teach and apply
acquired knowledge for the benefit of society and equip its students with the
highest sense of ethics, social responsibility and good citizenship, while at
the same time generating new knowledge via its research activities. We are
therefore thrilled to partner with Kyoto
University, sharing the
same goals and passion about excellence in teaching and research.
This symposium is essentially based on many shared feelings
and well established strong relations. We already have a faculty level
agreement between our Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of
Management of Kyoto
University. As a result,
the faculty and students have been enjoying a unique bond similar to the long
standing friendship that I share with President Dr. Hiroshi Matsumoto. The
harmony of this collaboration is also strengthened with the cultural
similarities between both countries. Deep respect of the human spirit as well
as the environment, sense of community and cooperation for the betterment of
society and deep sense of care for the social union are in the very nature of our
cultures.
We therefore aim to foster new ideas for innovation and
sustainable development issues by gathering leading scholars and industry
leaders. For 3 days, eminent decision-makers and forerunners of the business
and academic world are to share their knowledge and discuss how development can
be achieved in the most effective way. The essential idea is finding the
balance between progress and the environment, and undoubtedly this high
objective requires well-thought and bright innovations. Furthermore, innovative
and sustainable development is required in all aspects and levels of human
endeavor. With these goals in mind, our organizing committee has prepared a
well-planned program embracing all industries from medicine to finance and
accounting.
Fostering better university and industry collaboration is
also one of our main goals here at Koç
University, and I am sure also at Kyoto University.
As the symposium hosts distinguished members both from the academic world and
the business world, we can discuss how to create the perfect system for both
sides to unite their knowledge and power so that we can use this synergy for
the welfare of society. The unique and powerful roles of universities, in this
context, are also to be discussed.
This symposium also holds a special purpose by acting as a
liaison between Kyoto and Istanbul, the centers of two ancient and very
distinguished cultures. I am certain that this fellowship will bring many
bright ideas to the global academic and business world. I therefore hereby
extend my deepest thanks and appreciation to the organizing committee,
speakers, contributors and all participants…
Welcome Message
Dr. Hiroshi Matsumoto
President, Kyoto
University
The Koç University – Kyoto University International Symposium
on Innovative and Sustainable Development is the 16th in a series of
international symposia which have been held periodically by Kyoto University
at various venues around the world since 2001. The symposia aim to publicize
selected areas of research being undertaken at Kyoto University,
and, more importantly, to bring together prominent scholars from around the
world from diverse fields – but with shared interests and concerns – to promote
collaboration and the sharing of ideas and information. This goal is very much
in line with our mission statement, which emphasizes the university’s duty to
contribute to the international community.
The symposium is also significant in that it has provided an
ideal opportunity for Kyoto University and Koç University
to conclude a general memorandum for academic cooperation and exchange. It is a
great honor for Kyoto University to establish a partnership with one of Turkey’s
leading universities. I look forward to seeing the collaboration between our
two institutions develop, and to witnessing the fruits which that collaboration
will surely bear.
Although the partnership between Koç
University and Kyoto
University has only just been
formalized on an institutional level, the good relationship between our two
universities really began in November 2007, when Professor Barış Tan, the dean
of Koç University’s
Graduate School of Business, visited Kyoto
University to participate
in a conference organized by our Graduate School of Management. Professor Tan
met with the dean of our graduate school, Professor Kazuo Yoshida, and the two
deans agreed that their respective schools were well matched to pursue educational
and research collaboration. Following those initial discussions, a
faculty-level cooperation agreement in education as well as research was
concluded between the two graduate schools in March 2010. Under that agreement,
two students from Kyoto University have been studying at Koç University
since January of this year, and three will enroll into the school this month. I
am looking forward to seeing these initial cooperative ventures grow into a
rich and multifaceted university-level partnership through the newly-signed
agreement.
The cities of Istanbul and Kyoto share the common
experience of having been their nations’ capitals for very long periods of
time, and both are still widely regarded as the cultural hearts of their
respective countries. Both cities have also played vital roles in the history
of cultural exchange between the East and West as key destinations on the Silk Road trade routes. I believe that the partnership
between Koç University
and Kyoto University – as representative institutions
of those two culturally rich cities – has the potential to make a significant
and enduring contribution to global academia and to international society as
whole, and I have no doubt that this symposium will be an excellent beginning.
In closing, I would like to convey my sincere appreciation
to all of the symposium’s organizers, contributors and participants.
Koç University, Rumelifeneri Yolu 34450 Sariyer Istanbul Turkey
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