Professor Michiko Iizuka presented a paper entitled "Regulatory Catch-Up and COVID-19 Vaccine Authorization in Selected ASEAN Countries" at the 16th Asia Pacific Innovation Conference (APIC), held on September 22-23, 2026, at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia.

The paper was co-authored with Kaori Mita (Visiting Research Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)), Rahmi Lestari Helmi (National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia), and Tran Song Tung (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)).

Ms. Reina Otsuka, a doctoral student at GRIPS, also presented her research online at the conference. Her presentation was entitled "Do Pilots 'Never Fail, Never Scale'? - Typology of Pilot Projects for Sustainability Transition."

A discussion paper with the same title has been published in the GRIPS Discussion Paper Series (DP26-7).