【Kentaro Nakajima】The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data

▶Category: Article ▶Author:Miyauchi, Yuhei:Kentaro Nakajima:Stephen J Redding ▶Institution:Quarterly Journal of Economics ▶Volume:Vol.140 ▶Number:Issue 4 ▶Page:pp.2507-2570 ▶Date:2025/11/01 ▶Article Title:The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data ▶Abstract:We develop a tractable quantitative framework for modeling the rich patterns of spatial mobility observed in smartphone data. We show that travel is frequently undertaken as part of a travel itinerary, defined as a journey starting and ending at home that can include more than one intermediate stop on a given day. We show that these travel itineraries provide microfoundations for consumption externalities and generate both complementarity and substitutability between locations. We show that the consumption externalities implied by travel itineraries are…

【Kentaro Nakajima】The Impact of Military Technology Development on Innovation: Evidence from Prewar and Wartime Japanese Secret Patents

▶Category: Working Paper(outside IIR) ▶Author:Kotani, Atsuki:Kentaro Nakajima:Tetsuji Okazaki:Yukiko U. Saito ▶Institution:RIETI Discussion Paper Series ▶Number:25-E-093 ▶Release Date:2025/09/01 ▶Article Title:The Impact of Military Technology Development on Innovation: Evidence from Prewar and Wartime Japanese Secret Patents ▶Abstract:Innovations in military technology potentially drive significant societal transformations through applications to civilian use. This study aims to quantitatively measure the impact of military technology development on civilian innovation activities using prewar and wartime Japanese patent data from 1916 to 1945. By exploiting Japan’s secret patent system, which classified particularly critical military-related technologies not disclosed to the public, we identify important technological developments. The result shows that the filing of secret patents led to a significant…

【Kentaro Nakajima】The role of human interaction in innovation: evidence from the 1918 influenza pandemic in Japan

▶Category: Article ▶Author:Inoue, Hiroyasu:Kentaro Nakajima:Tetsuji Okazaki:Yukiko U. Saito ▶Institution:The Japanese Economic Review ▶Volume:Vol.76 ▶Number:No.3 ▶Page:pp. 795-820 ▶Date:2025/06/19 ▶Article Title:The role of human interaction in innovation: evidence from the 1918 influenza pandemic in Japan ▶Abstract:This study empirically investigates human interaction’s role in innovation by exploiting the 1918 influenza pandemic in Japan from 1918 to 1921, which prohibitively increased the cost of interactions between inventors. Using unique patent bibliographic data for this period, we estimate the pandemic’s impact on innovation in technologies requiring intensive human interaction for invention. Specifically, we define patent technology classes with large fractions of collaborative patents before the pandemic as collaboration-intensive technology, which requires intensive human interaction for…

【Ichikawa, Tagui】Norms in New Technological Domains:Japan’s AI Governance Strategy

▶Category: Article ▶Author:Ichikawa, Tagui ▶Institution:Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) ▶Volume: ▶Number: ▶Page:pp. 1-13 ▶Date:2025/06/17 ▶Article Title:Norms in New Technological Domains:Japan’s AI Governance Strategy ▶Abstract:Artificial intelligence (AI) governance systems vary based on countries’ cultural and social attributes. Influenced by its culture and social background, Japan’s AI governance policy focuses on promoting innovation, taking an agile, “soft-law approach” to governance, and emphasizing international interoperability of AI systems. The Japanese government recently strengthened its legal efforts regarding AI by introducing legislation in the Diet (parliament) at a time of dramatically shifting debate on global AI governance policies in 2025. With the start of the second Trump administration in the United States…

【You, Kyoungmin】Enabling Innovation Activities in Standardization: A Dynamic Interplay of Moderating Factors and Firm Innovation Activities in Standard-Setting Organizations

▶Category: Article ▶Author:You, Kyoungmin:Hirofumi Tatsumoto ▶Institution:Organizational Science ▶Volume:Vol.57 ▶Number:Issue2 ▶Page:pp. 93-112 ▶Date:2023/09/01 ▶Article Title:Enabling Innovation Activities in Standardization: A Dynamic Interplay of Moderating Factors and Firm Innovation Activities in Standard-Setting Organizations ▶Abstract:Corporations initiate Standard-Setting Organizations (SSOs) and formulate technology standards across diverse sectors. Existing research has yielded contradictory conclusions between SSOs and firm innovation, engendering a complexity for both practitioners and academic researchers in thoroughly understanding this domain. This study investigates the influence of SSOs on solid innovation and moderating factors, such as network size, membership policy, and firm size. The dataset was collected from 339 firms of the HDMI Forum, coupled with 679,736 patents filed between 1998 and 2020….

【Yaichi Aoshima】Assessing international knowledge spillovers from government funded R&D: evidence from Japanese national projects

▶Category: Article ▶Author:Takada, Naoki:Yaichi Aoshima:Kazunari Matsushima:Akira Izumi ▶Institution:International Journal of Technology Management ▶Volume:Vol.99 ▶Number:No.1-2 ▶Page:pp. 127-146 ▶Date:2026/02/25 ▶Article Title:Assessing international knowledge spillovers from government funded R&D: evidence from Japanese national projects ▶Abstract:This study investigates international knowledge spillovers arising from government-funded R&D projects (GFPs). While GFPs are often justified by their domestic benefits, their international effects remain less clear. We posit that GFPs amplify international spillovers by signalling technological promise: government selection legitimises priority fields and attracts foreign attention. Using patent data from Japanese GFPs and a matched sample of private R&D, we find that GFPs’ patents receive significantly more international forward citations, especially when projects are highlighted in national budget…

Innovation Forum 2026.9.30 Linus Büttner

Date:September 30(Wednesday), 2026from 16:00 to 17:30 Topic:“The Visual Mode of Cultural Resonance: Evidence from Film Markets” Speaker:Linus Büttner(Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate, Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Frankfurt / Visiting Researcher, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Venue:onsiteIIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer:Kang, Byeongwoo  This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline:9:00, September 30, 2026 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

【Padrón-Hernández, Ivar】På opdagelse i fortidens boligarkitektur: Akiya og Edo-Tokyo Frilandsmuseum

▶Category: A Book Chapter ▶Author:Padrón-Hernández, Ivar: Kristina Kazuhara ▶Editor:Borup, Jørn:Annette Skovsted-Hansen ▶Book Title:Oplev Japan ▶Page:pp. 198-210 ▶Place Published:Højbjerg ▶Publisher:Forlaget Univers ▶Date:2025/04/01 ▶Article Title:På opdagelse i fortidens boligarkitektur: Akiya og Edo-Tokyo Frilandsmuseum. ▶Abstract: ▶Notes: ▶URL:https://forlagetunivers.dk/book.php?&id=68 ▶Register date:2025/04/01

Professor Masaru Karube and Yuki Miyazawa (Doctoral Program and IMPP, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) receive the Best Paper Award in two divisions at the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

Professor Masaru Karube and Yuki Miyazawa were simultaneously awarded the Best Paper Award in two divisions—the Organization and Natural Environment (ONE) Division and the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division—at the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. This international academic conference is organized by the US-based Academy of Management (AOM). 【Organization and Natural Environment Division】 Presentation date : August 3, 2026  11:30AM – 1:00PM ET (GMT-4/UTC-4) at Sheraton in Salon 3 (Philadelphia, USA) Award Winner : Ryoji Miyawaki(Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) Masaru Karube(Director and Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Jin-ichiro Yamada(Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) Yuki Miyazawa(Doctoral Program and IMPP, Graduate School of Business…

Byeongwoo Kang, Professor received R&D Management Workshop 2026 Best Paper Award

Organizer:R&D Management Workshop 2026 Award:R&D Management Workshop 2026 Best Paper Award Date:May 29, 2026 Award Winner:Eunjung Hyun (Associate Professor, College of Business Administration, Hongik University)Tae-Seok Kim (Associate Professor, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business)Byeongwoo Kang (Professor, IIR) Article Title:“Cross-Industry Talent Mobility and Trajectory-Shaping Innovation in the Automotive Technological Transition” Abstract of the paper:How do incumbent firms generate technologically consequential inventions during industry transitions? We examine this question in the automotive industry, where established automakers have maintained technological dominance while expanding into electric, digital, and softwareintensive domains. We argue that cross-industry inventor mobility serves as an invention-level mechanism of creative accumulation by bringing technologically distant knowledge into incumbent patent teams. Using…

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