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International Symposium “Female Entrepreneurs Unlocking the Future” 2017.3.9

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■ 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

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■ 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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

Professor Manabu ETO received Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award

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Professor Manabu ETO received Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award   Organization: The Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award:  Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award Date:  November 5, 2016 Award Winner: Professor Manabu ETO (with Dr. Hiroyuki TOMIZAWA) Website for the Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management http://jsrpim.jp/wp/?page_id=1987 http://jsrpim.jp/wp/?page_id=648　(In Japanese)  

Forum 2016.11.16 Pao-lien Chen

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Innovation Forum 2016.11.16 Pao-lien Chen Topic:“Learning-by-Hiring: International Employee Mobility and the Growth of Emerging Market Firms at Home” Speaker:Pao-lien Chen（Associate Professor　National Tsing Hua University) Date:Nobember 16th (Wednesday)  2016from 12:15 ～ 13:15 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer:　Atsushi Ohyama

International Symposium on Social Inclusion 2016.11.10

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International Symposium on Social Inclusion: Experiences from Bangladesh (featuring former Governor of Bangladesh Central Bank) Date: 10 Nobember, 2016Time: 10:30 to 12:30Venue: Hitotsubashi University       Josuikai Centennial Hall    ( 2-1Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan) Entry: Form Program:10:30 Opening Remarks　Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University 10：35-11：05 Topic 1 : “Financial Inclusion: Experience from Bangladesh”Dr. Atiur Rahman, Professor of Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka and former Governor of Central Bank of Bangladesh. 11：05-11：35 Topic 2: “Microfinance and Socio-economic Development”Dr. Mohammed Abu Eusuf, Professor and Chairman, Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka. 11：35-12：05 Topic 3: “e-Education and Social Innovation in Bangladesh”Md. Imran Hossain Bhuiyan Lecturer, Department…

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