Sébastien Lechevalier
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Sébastien Lechevalier is an economist, Professor at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris), specialized in the study of Asian economies, with a focus on Japan and on the relations between technologies and societies. He is the founder and the president of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ). He is the principal investigator (PI) of INNOVCARE (2024-2028): „Care-led innovation: the case of eldercare in France and in Japan“, a research project funded by „PPR Autonomie” (France 2030), which involved 11 French institutions and 7 Japanese institutions, more than 60 researchers in social sciences, robotics and medical sciences.
Personal website: sebastienlechevalier.wordpress.com
His major publications include:
Sébastien Lechevalier (Ed.) Innovation Beyond Technology. Science for Society and Interdisciplinary Approaches, Springer, 2019
David Chiavacci & Sébastien Lechevalier (Eds.) Japanese Political Economy Revisited. Abenomics and Institutional Change, Routledge, 2018
Sébastien Lechevalier, The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism, Routledge, 2014 (also published in Japanese from Iwanami shoten in 2015).
Laufende DIJ Projekte
Care-led innovation: the case of eldercare in France, Germany, and Japan