Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research

Researcher Profile Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Tohru

Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Tohru  Associate Professor    Intellectual property management 【Career】2005 B.A.,    School of Law, Osaka University2007 LL.M,  Graduate School of Law, Osaka University2007-2012   Policy Analyst, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.2009-2012   Project Researcher, Policy Alternative Research Institute, the University of Tokyo2013-2014   Project Research Assistant, Policy Alternative Research Institute,the University of Tokyo2014-2015   Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2),Japan Society for the Promotion of Science2015             Doctor of Engineering, Department of Technology Management for Innovation,Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo2015-2016   Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research,Hitotsubashi University2015-2016   Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy,the University of Tokyo2016-2019   Project Research Associate, Department of Technology Management for Innovation,Graduate School…

Researcher Profile Nakajima, Kentaro

Nakajima, Kentaro   Professor Economics (Spatial Economics, Applied Microeconometrics)Web: http://knakajima.weebly.com 【Career】2003   B.A., Department of Economics, the University of Tokyo2008   Ph.D. (Economics),Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo2008   Associate Professor,Endowed Chair in Regional Economy and Banking (The 77 Bank),Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University2010   Associate Professor, Center for Economic Institutions,Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University2011   Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management,Tohoku University2017   Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University2023   Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University 【Awards】Sakashita PrizeApplied Regional Science Conference, 2015 AREUEA National Conference Best Paper Award⏩The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA), June 2021Achievements:Consumption Access and the Spatial…

Business Review Vol.64 No.4 SPR. 2017

Vol.64 No.4 SPR. 2017 (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. Innovation Research Frontier for the Next 20 Years Joel Baker Malen“Innovation for a Circular Economy” Kentaro Nobeoka“Changes of Customer Value into Tacit Nature” Yaichi Aoshima“Revolution of Industries Driven by Digital Innovation: Unstabilized Product Boundaries” Masaru Karube“A New Perspective on Innovation:   Marginality and Anomaly” Toshihiro Nishiguchi“Networks for What?” Seiichiro Yonekura“No Crazy Entrepreneurs, No New Companies” Atsushi Ohyama“Roles of Incentives in Innovative Activity” Hiroshi Shimizu“Innovation Is Becoming Low Hanging Fruit?” Manabu Eto“How the Japanese Government Should Support Innovation?” Yoshimi Okada“Patent System Reform: Redesigning the…

International Symposium “Female Entrepreneurs Unlocking the Future” 2017.3.9

■ International Symposium “Female Entrepreneurs Unlocking the Future” Date: March 9, 2017 Place: Hitotsubashi University Josuikai Centennial Hall  Program 14:00 Opening Remarks Fumiya Kamikawaji, Head, Japan Gaza Innovation Challenge Fumiya Kamikawaji Chair of Japan Gaza Innovation Challenge (JGIC) 14:05 Keynote Lecture – Female Entrepreneurs Unlocking the Future Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor, IIR 14:45 Presentation by Entrepreneurs Ms. Febriarti Khairunnisa, Founder and owner, Bintang Sejahtera Ms. Majd Almashharawi, Founder & CEO, Green Cake Ms. Amal Abdelraof Abu Moailqe, Founder & CEO, Sketch Engineering Ms. Yuriko Murakami, Founder & CEO, Her BEST Ms. Jennifer Shigoli, Founder & CEO, Malkia Investments Co & Ltd., Malkia Industries and TIM (Tanzania Institute of Manufacturing) 16:00 Panel…

Workshop on Innovation in Digital Industries 2017.2.23

■ Workshop on Innovation in Digital Industries Date: February 23, 2017 Venue: Sano-shoin Hall, Hitotsubashi University Innovation in digital industries now figures prominently in determining aggregate economic outcomes in the economy. Digital goods are pervasive and range from computer software to music, film and games, engineering blueprints, and even DNA sequences. There have been important discussions about whether new digital technological advances contribute to growth in productivity. Less attention, however, has been paid to understand the industry’s boundaries, the accompanying organizational changes necessary to reap advances in the new digital technologies as well as the conditions for firms and countries to be successful entrants. The workshop aims at a discussion…

Professor Emeritus Toshihiro Nishiguchi Receives the Shoko Research Institute’s Annual Award for Outstanding Studies on Small Business

Toshihiro Nishiguchi, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University, has received the Shoko Research Institute’s (SRI) prestigious Annual Award for Outstanding Studies on Small Business. This award is offered to a selection of outstanding books and journal articles that achieve excellence in small-business research. Professor Nishiguchi’s new book, titled Community Capital: The Prosperity and Limits of China’s Wenzhou Entrepreneurial Networks (in Japanese, Yuhikaku, 2016, 458 pp., coauthored with Professor Motoko Tsujita), has won the Main (as opposed to Next-rank) Prize of the SRI’s Award. A product of twelve years of research, hundreds of field visits, and more than seven hundred interviews with Wenzhou and other Chinese entrepreneurs in nineteen countries, including China,…

Forum 2017.2.16 Charles J. McMillan

Innovation Forum 2017.2.16 Charles J. McMillan Topic:“The Planning Strategy of Strategic Planning:Orientation, Time Constraints, Decisions, Action: Case Studies from Military, Business, and Political Theory” Speaker:Charles J. McMillan(Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University) Date:February 16th (Thursday)  2017from 13:30 ~ 15:00 Place: 709 room of the 7th floor of the Faculty Building 2 Abstract:Business journals, business school scholars, and strategic management societies focus on a range of themes, frameworks, and endogenous organizational factors that shape and influence firm strategies. From resource-based theories, dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial  vision, the research literature is diverse, fractionated, and often devoid of realism of strategy in action, with clever tools of networks, deep learning, time management based on timing,…

Business Review Vol.64 No.3 WIN. 2016

Vol.64 No.3 WIN. 2016 (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. Corporate Strategy for Business Transformation Kazuhiro Mishima“Business Strategy as Pinpoint Definition” Fumiaki Sato“Dramatic Shifts in Corporate Strategy: Lessons from Major Electronics Manufacturer” Norihisa Yoshimura“Corporate Restructuring through Japanese Spin-Off” Katsuhiko Shimizu“Wise Mistakes and Organizational Communication: An Approach What We Really Need to Activate the Power of Strategy” Ikujiro Nonaka“Cultivating Organizational Knowledge Maneuverability: Tacit Knowing, Intersubjectibity, Distributed Leadership“Shigeyuki Hiroki“TICAD: A View from Africa” ●Leaders of MOT  Kiyoshi Fujiwara   (Director, Mazda Motor Corporation)  Interviewed by Kentaro Nobeoka and Yaichi Aoshima ●Critical Eyes: Corporate Governance…

Associate Professor Hiroshi Shimizu Received the 59th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

Associate Professor of Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research, Hiroshi Shimizu, has received the 59th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science, co-organized by Nikkei Inc. and the Japan Center for Economic Research. Every year this award is offered to outstanding books that have been published in the past year in the fields of economics, management and accounting. Professor Shimizu’s book, titled General Purpose Technology no Innovation (Innovations in General Purpose Technology), published by Yuhikaku, in March 2016, explores how the existence or absence of an entrepreneurial strategic choice for spin-outs influences the patterns of subsequent technological development by exploring the technological development of laser diodes in the US…

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