Forum 2009.04-2010.03

18 March, 2010Steven White
(Associate Professor, China Europe International Business School) 
‘Entrepreneur-Investor relational configurations and implications for value “beyond the contract” ‘
9 March, 2010Hyungsub Choi
(Senior Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia /JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, History and Philosophy of Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo) 
‘Manufacturing Knowledge in Transit: The Circulation of Transistor Technology in the U.S. and Japan, 1948-1960’
9 March, 2010Akihiko Ishitani
(IMEC Representative Japan) 
‘Management of Research Consortium: Experience and Future of IMEC ‘
24 February, 2010Akira Endo
(Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research) 
‘A Gift from Nature: The Invention of Statin and the Following Innovation (II)’
9 February, 2010Akira Shibata
(Chief Engineer, Engineering Planning Dept., Automatic Data Capture Division, DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED)
‘The Business Strategy of QR Code’
5 February, 2010Bruno van Pottelsberghe
(Professor, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (SBS-EM and ECARES) and Bruegel) 
‘The quality factor in patent systems’
20 January, 2010

Hiroshi Uematsu
General Manager,
Ironmaking Technical Div.,
Nippon Steel Corporation

Kenji Kato,
General Manager,
Coke Plant, Plant Engineering Div.,
Environment & Process Technology center, Technical Development Bureau,
Nippon Steel Corporation

Yasuhiko Awa,
Senior Manager,
Coke Plant, Plant Engineering Div.,
Environment & Process Technology center, Technical Development Bureau,
Nippon Steel Corporation

Michitaka Sakaida,
Senior Manager,
Environment & Process Technology center, Technical Development Bureau,
Nippon Steel Corporation

Masato Sugiura,
Senior Researcher,
Instrument & Control R&D Div.,
Environment & Process Technology center, Technical Development Bureau,
Nippon Steel Corporation
A Diagnose and Repair Technologies Used in Enormously Harsh Space for the Realization of Coke-Oven Restoring’
(G-COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)

4 November, 2009Akira Endo‘A Gift from Nature: The Invention of Statin and the Following Innovation’
6 October, 2009Tom Nichola
(Associate Professor, Harvard Business School)
‘Inducement Prizes and Innovation’
29 September, 20091. Roberto Fontana
(University of Pavia & Bocconi University, Italy)
2. Chih-Hai Yang
(National Central University, Taiwan)
1. ‘Demand, Entry and Survival in the Semiconductor Industry’ (with Franco Malerba)
2. ‘R&D, Technology Imports and Patents in China’s High-tech Industries: Do Patent Reform and Ownership Matter?’
20 August, 2009Atsushi Imai
(Senior Engineer, Broadcasting Engineering Division,
NHK Engineering Services, Inc.)
‘Development of Radio and Television Receiver with Functions of Speech Rate Conversion Technology’(G-COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)
19 August, 2009Carlos Ramirez
(Guest Associate Professor at Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
Associate Professor at HEC Graduate School of Management)
‘The Big 4 Audit Firms After Enron: Making Sense of Audit Quality in A Historical Perspective’
30 July, 2009Katsumi Maeda
(Principal Researcher, Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation)
Kaichiro Nakano
(Principal Researcher, Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
)‘Development of Novel Materials for ArF Resist Achieving the
Mass-Production of Advanced LSIs

(G-COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)
25 June , 2009Shozo Kaneko
(Professor 
of the Endowed Research Unit :
Advanced Energy Conversion Engineering
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo)
‘Innovation against the global warming (How to reduce CO2?)’
25 June , 2009Yuzuru Sato
(Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University
)‘Stability and Diversity in Collective Adaptation’
25 June , 2009Jung-Kyoo Choi
(Professor, 
School of Economics and Commerce, Kyungpook National University)‘The Holocene Revolution: The Coevolution of Agricultural Technologies and Private Property Institutions’
18 June , 2009Marc Henry
(Professor, 
Universite de Montreal and Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo)‘Partial Identification and Inference in Models of Discrete Choice with Interactions’
16 June , 2009Ben Dankbaar
(Professor, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
)‘Challenges of Open Innovation: A sectoral Perspective’
12 June , 2009Kenta Mikuriya
(General Manager, Corporate R & D Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
‘Development and Application of High Speed Confocal Microscopy which can be used for the Observation and Analysis of Molecular Dynamism’(G-COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)
3 June , 2009Youngjin Yoo
(Associate Professor, Fox School of Business and Management, 
Temple University)‘The Wicked Problem of Innovations in Doubly Distributed Innovation Networks:
An Example from Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry’
23 April , 2009Yukio Ohsawa
(Associate Professor, Department of Systems Innovation,
School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
‘Engineering in Post-Visualization:
~From Chance Discovery to Value Sensing~’
16 April , 2009Keiki Takadama
(Associate Professor, The University of Electro-Communications)
‘Validation of agent-based social simulations:
Toward an agent design for replicating human-like behaviors’
6 April , 2009Hiroyuki Shinada
(Manager of Advanced Measurement and Analysis Center and Chief Researcher at Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.)
Tadashi Odaka
(Senior Technical Advisor, Research and Development Div., Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation

‘Development and Commercialization of Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscope for Measurement of Ultra-fine Semiconductor Patterns’
(G-COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)