Forum 2007.04-2008.03

27 March, 2008Akira Takeishi(Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
‘Boundaries of Innovation’
19 March, 2008Tomoyuki Shimbo(Junior Research Fellow, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
‘Technology imports and firm performance: A case of petrochemical industry’
19 March, 2008Xiaomei Zhang(Junior Research Fellow, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
‘The current situation and issues of banking in Hangzhou and Wenzhou’
19 March, 2008Yoko Furusawa(Research Associate, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
‘A case study by Endowed Chair; “How are technology start-ups set up in Japan?”‘
24 January, 2008Hiroshi Shimizu(Researcher, Department of Technology Management Eindhoven University of Technology
(The Netherlands)

‘Competition, Knowledge Spillover, and Innovation: Technological Development of
Semiconductor Lasers, 1960-1990′
24 January, 2008Makoto Nirei(Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Carleton University (Canda)
‘Firms Dynamics under Strategic Complementarity’
12 December, 2007Suphawan Srisophaolarn(Associate Professor, Kasetsart University (Thailand)/Visiting Associate Professor, IIR,
Hitotsubashi University

‘Innovation in the Service Sector: A Theoretical Framework and the Case Study of
the Japanese Service Firms’
5 December, 2007Xiaomei Zhang(Junior Research Fellow, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
‘The current situation and issues of banking in Hangzhou and Wenzhou’
5 December, 2007Tomoyuki Shimbo(Junior Research Fellow, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
‘Technology imports and firm performance: A case of petrochemical industry’
28 November, 2007Cornelius Herstatt(Professor, Institute for Technology and Innovation Management, Hamburg University
of Technology

‘Product development for the silver markets’
26 November, 2007Jean-Francois Bellis(Senior Partner, Van Bael & Bellis
‘the EU Antitrust case on Microsoft: a view from the Microsoft attorney’
22 November, 2007Sebastien Lechevalier
(Associate Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales/Researcher of
Maison franco-japonaise

‘The Effect of Government Consortia on the R&D Productivity of Firms. A case study of
robot technology in Japan’
25 July, 2007Sea-Jin Chang(Professor, Korea University/Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University) 
‘Sony and Samsung : Portraits of Two Global Competitors’
19 June, 2007Florian Kohlbacher(German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)) 
‘Fostering Innovation through Knowledge Co-Creation in the Business Ecosystem’
5 June, 2007Aaron Schiff(Postdoctoral Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 
Reiko Aoki(Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University) 
‘Licensing and Intellectual Property Clearinghouse’
24 May, 2007JINYOUNG KIM(Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Korea University) 
‘The influence of university research on industrial innovation’
10 May, 2007Tadashi Nakamura(Honorary Chairman, Noritake Itron Corporation)Norihisa Hasegawa(Managing Director, Noritake Itron Corporation)‘Development of Vacuum Fluorescent Displays at Noritake Itron Corporation’(COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)
25 April, 2007Annie Garanto(Associate Professor, University of Paris X / Visiting Associate Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University.)‘The Innovative Boundaries of the Firm within the Institutional Context: The Case of the Japanese Biopharmaceutical Industry’
12 April, 2007Hiroshi Kobayashi(Toray Industries. Inc.)‘Development of High Performance Color Filter in Liquid Crystal Display for Mobile Phone by Polyimide System’(COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)