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)