Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research

Forum 2023.4.12 Nadine Scholz

Topic:“Looking for allies: how individuals organize collaboration for experimentation outside routine work in corporate firms” Speaker:Nadine Scholz(PhD Student in Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation, King’s College London) Date:April 12th (Wednesday) 2023from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue:onsiteIIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer:Yaichi Aoshima Abstract:Companies often establish structured innovation programs such as intrapreneurship programs and idea challenges to harness employee creativity and enable them to experiment with new ideas. Nevertheless, employees often also take initiative to work on ideas outside such formal organizational structures to introduce innovations for the company or generate organizational change, and, as they do so, they face particular constraints. This study explores inductively…

Forum 2023.6.7 Anoop Madhok

Topic:“Corporate-Startup Partnering: Exploring Attention Dynamics in Asymmetric Settings” Speaker:Anoop Madhok(Professor, York University) Date:June 7 (Wednesday), 2023from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue:onsiteIIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer:Ivar Padrón-Hernández Abstract:Startups concurrently partnering with large corporations compete for the latter’s attention. We extend the attention-based view from an intraorganizational to an interorganizational context by exploring how startups differ in attention received from the corporation, their actions to attract and sustain such attention, and the impact of attention dynamics on the partnership outcomes. Our research uncovers two discontinuous contests for attention involving corporate and divisional managers, highlighting the import of the distributed nature of attention. Reflecting this, our…

Brown bag lunch seminar 2023.3.22 Rudi Bekkers

Brown bag lunch seminar 2023.3.22 Rudi Bekkers Topic: “From open warfare to strawman’s anonymity: Motives and strategies behind patent opposition at EPO” Speaker: Rudi Bekkers (Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology) Date: March 22th (Wednesday) 2023 from 12:30 to 13:30 Venue: HYBRID: onsite & online IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) & Zoom meeting (online) Organizer: Byeongwoo Kang Deadline: 9:00, March 22 , 2023 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar ” below. IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Business Review Vol.70 No.4 SPR. 2023

Vol.70 No.4 SPR. 2023 (In Japanese) A leading management journal in Japanese,which builds a bridge between theory and practice. EDITED BYHitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation ResearchPUBLISHED BYToyo Keizai Inc. Understanding Korea’s Industry:From Steel and Automobile to Game and K-POP Hidemi Yoshioka“Industrial Development and the Role of Industrial Policy: The Case of the Korean Semiconductor Industry“ Mokoto Abe“The Catching-Up and Competition with Japan in the Korean Steel Industry“ Seunghwan Ku “Building Process of Business System of Hyundai Automobile Group“ Masaaki Toma“Strategic Transformation of Energy Industry in South Korea: From “Traditional Energy” to “New and Renewable Energy“ Jonghyun Wi“Born as an Innovator: Korea Game Industry Shocks the World“ Ingyu Oh“The Success Factors of…

Researcher Profile Bekkers, Rudi

Bekkers, Rudi Visiting Researcher Visiting Researcher,Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (2023.3.20 – 2023.5.7) Professor, Eindhoven University of Technologyhttps://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/rudi-bekkers/ 【Recent Research Themes】The origin of technological innovation

Forum 2025

●Forum 2025 2025.11.26Victor Gilsing(Professor, School of Business and Economics, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)”The Innovation Puzzle : Banish the Innovation Killers and become an Emerging Champion” 2025.10.27Mauricio Latapí(Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University, Canada)”Shaping Sustainable Futures: Innovation in Reporting and Zero-Emission Pathways for the Shipping and Energy Sectors” 2025.10.15Cornelia Storz(Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt)”Business Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation” 2025.6.30SHORT, Cole Evan(Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University/Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)”Rare Diseases, Real Options: Unlocking Strategic Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation” 2025.4.9David A. Kirsch(Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the College of Information Studies (by courtesy) at the University of Maryland)”Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications…

Forum 2024

●Forum 2024 2024.12.18Michael Cusumano(Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management / Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)”The impact of platform business models on the valuations of unicorn companies” 2024.10.23Hang Yuan(Ph.D. candidate in Management Studies, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University)”Imprinted Language Policy in Post-Colonialism: Unraveling the Tapestry of Language Policies in MNEs and Their Efficiency Paradigms” 2024.7.8Paul Wiegmann(Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology)”Measuring Societal Impacts of Standards” 2024.5.15Paul Jensen(Professor, University of Melbourne)”The effect of university-industry collaboration subsidies on firm performance” 2024.4.25Hee-Chan Song(Assistant Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)”Doing and writing qualitative study: A case of Buddhist temples” 2024.4.24①Dong-hyu Kim(Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow)”Effects of Standards…

Forum 2023

●Forum 2023 2023.12.14 Ramya K Murthy (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) ”Digital Platform Ecosystem Design: A Configurational Approach to Understanding Heterogeneity in Platform Meta-Organizations” 2023.11.15 Israr Qureshi (Professor, The Research School of Management, Australian National University) ”Digitally Enabled Social Intermediation: A Research Framework” 2023.10.25 Thomas Åstebro (Professor, HEC Paris and KU Leuven) ”Death and Turmoil in R&D Teams” 2023.7.4 Yoichi Matsumoto (Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University) ”Internal Redeployment Versus External Recruitment of Inventors” 2023.6.7 Anoop Madhok (Professor, York University) ”Value creation in corporate-startup alliance portfolios: The attention-based view” 2023.4.12 Nadine Scholz (PhD Student in Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation, King’s College London) ”Looking for allies:…

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