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Research Exchange through the EU Educational Support Program “Erasmus+ KA107”

IIR News

As part of the EU educational support initiative Erasmus+ KA107, we have launched an international collaborative research program focused on green innovation. This initiative promotes international mobility and joint research between graduate students and faculty members of VU University Amsterdam and the Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research (IIR). About the Erasmus+ Program:https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/chukyo/chukyo4/007/gijiroku/030101/2-7.htm About VU University Amsterdam:https://vu.nl/nl

IIR Innovation Research Workshop 2025 2025.8.28-29

IIR News, summer school/innovation research workshop

■IIR Innovation Research Workshop 2025（Hybrid） This year, the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University will hold the 3rd IIR Innovation Research Workshop. To promote, drive, and boost innovation research, we welcome students, researchers, and practitioners to exchange knowledge and creativity. Date: August 28-29, 2025 Venue: Multipurpose Room, Mercury Tower 7F, Kunitachi-east campus, Hitotsubashi University (2-4 Higashi, Kunitachi, Tokyo)& ZOOM Meeting *Audience members will be able to join us online and in-person. CALL for PAPERS Deadline: May 30, 2025 CLICK HERE CALL for AUDIENCE Deadline: 9:00, August 21, 2025 CLICK HERE Program 2025

Notice on Summer Vacation

IIR News

To promote energy conservation on campus and to refresh the minds and bodies of faculty and staff, we will have a summer vacation from August 9 to August 14. Offices will be closed during this time. We ask for your cooperation. CLOSED: from Saturday, August 9, 2025 to Thursday, August 14, 2025 We will resume work on Friday, August 15, 2025. Thank you. IIR, Hitotsubashi University

Innovation Forum 2025.6.30 SHORT, Cole Evan

Forum, IIR News

Date： June 30（Monday), 2025 from 16:30 to 17:30 Topic: “Rare Diseases, Real Options: Unlocking Strategic Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation” Speaker: SHORT, Cole Evan (Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University／Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer: Padrón-Hernández, Ivar This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline: 9:00, June 30, 2025 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Business Review Vol.72 No.4 SPR. 2025

Hitotsubashi Buisiness Review

Vol.72 No.4 SPR. 2025 (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. Rethinking Capitalism : The Evolving Expectations for Firms and Leaders Ikujiro Nonaka / Emi Osono“Crisis of Modern Management and Dynamic Duality” Takashi Mitachi“Managing through Two Juxtapositioned Times” Takashi Nawa “Implementing Purpose by Embedding Ethics in the Organization” Nobuhiro Endo“Efforts to Get to the Core or Very Essence of New Value Creation” Yuki Mizobuchi / Nozomi Torii / Kenji Shino“Use Business as a Force for Good” Kohei Takashima“Solving Social Issues of Food through Business” ●Content Business Reflecting Society (2)Fumihiko Ikuine ●Introduction to Strategic…

Business Review Vol.72 No.3 WIN. 2024

Hitotsubashi Buisiness Review

Vol.72 No.3 WIN. 2024 (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. Social Data Science : Bridging Data and Practice Naohiro Shichijo“Empowering the Captains of Industry: Social Data Science as a Catalyst for Change” Yutaka Soejima“The Accelerated Evolution of Generative AI and DX in Social Systemss” Atsuo Akai“Perspectives on Evidence-based Policy Making and Socio-economic Digital Transformation” Chihiro Shimizu“Specialisation of “Man” and “Machine”: Can AI Solve the Problem of Empty Homes in Japan’s Shrinking Population Areas?” Atsushi Hiyama“From Promoting Social Participation of Older Adults to Multi-generational Co-creation of Communities” Mayu Terada“Promoting AI Utilization and…

Innovation Forum 2025.4.9 David A. Kirsch

Forum, IIR News

Date： April 9（Wednesday), 2025 from 17:30 to 19:00 Topic: “Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery” Speaker: David 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) Abstract: Studies of industry emergence have often generated insights from empirical contexts with a one-to-one correspondence between a technology and its application. In parallel, studies of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) have documented the economic impact and versatility of technologies with broad downstream applications, although these studies often abstract away from the endogenous and gradual process through which a single technology underpins multiple downstream markets, in…

Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Associate Professor and Junya Kataoka, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, received Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award

Award, IIR News

Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Associate Professor and Junya Kataoka, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, received Best Paper Award at 39th Annual Conference of Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management. Organization:Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award:Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Best Paper Award Date:October 27, 2024 Award Winner:Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi (Associate Professor, IIR)Junya Kataoka (Specially Appointed Assistant professor, IIR)Kazuki Yokota (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University)Sotaro Shibayama (The University of Tokyo)Mari Kawamura (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) Article Title:“Effects of transferable skills of doctoral graduates on job satisfaction and mobility” Abstract:Does acquiring highly transferable skills that are applicable in sectors…

Business Review Vol.72 No.2 AUT. 2024

Hitotsubashi Buisiness Review

Vol.72 No.2 AUT. 2024 (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. The Prospect and Outlook for Business Ethics:Considering Sustainable Value Miho Murashima“Shifting Values: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Consumer Price Sensitivity towards Socially Oriented Products” Kazue Haga “Living Lab” as a Co-creation Approach to Create Solutions to Social Challenges in Communities” Noriko Saito“Accounting Dilemma Created by Stipends for Volunteers” Savu Rovanto“A Slowing Perspective into Japanʼs Circular Economy: History and Current Developments” Emiko Akaishi“Embracing Sustainability and Well-being: Exploring a New Business Ethics through ZOZOUSED” Ryuta Suzuki / Bumpei Sunaguchi “The Paradox of Busy…

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