Category: Award

Professor Yaichi AOSHIMA received the 60th Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize. Organization: Mainichi Shimbun Award: Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize Date: March 30, 2020 Award Winner: Professor Masatoshi FUJIWARA and Yaichi AOSHIMA Book Title: Mechanisms for the Long-term Innovation: A History of the RO Membrane’s Technological Development, Tokyo: Toyokeizai, August 2019, 456 pages Each year, the Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize, under the auspices of Mainichi Shimbun Economist editorial department, is awarded to the authors of a book that has significant empirical and theoretical contributions. Selected from books published between January and December 2019, the 60th Economist Prize was awarded to Professors Fujiwara and Aoshima for Mechanisms for Long-term Innovation: A History of…

Byeongwoo, KANG, Associate Professor, received KDDI Foundation Encouragement Award 2019 Organization: KDDI Foundation Award: KDDI Foundation Encouragement Award 2019 Achievements: Empirical studies on standard essential patents in the mobile communications industry Website of KDDI Foundation: http://www.kddi-foundation.or.jp/english/award/result.html

  Byeongwoo, KANG, Assistant Professor, received Young Scholars Award 2018 from the International Schumpeter Society   Organization: The International Schumpeter Society Award: Young Scholars Award 2018Article Title:How Does Innovation Occur in India? Evidence from the JIRICO Survey Abstract:This paper reports the results of the JIRICO survey to shed light on the drivers and obstacles to innovation in India, and how the intellectual property rights system, particularly patents, play a role in the larger innovation ecosystem of the country. Findings are on three issues: (1) Motivation of Innovation activity, (2) innovation activities in India, (3) Challenges for innovation activity, (4) Protection strategy of innovation activity, and (5) commercialization strategy of innovation activity in…

Ryo TANIGUCHI, Adjunct Research Associate, received the 34th Annual Takamiya Award for Best Paper from the Academic Association for Organizational Science Organization:  The Academic Association for Organizational Science Award:  Takamiya Award for Best Paper Date:  June 9, 2018 Award Winner:  Adjunct Research Associate Ryo TANIGUCHI Article Title:  Successful Resource Acquisition-Induced-Resource Allocation Failures: A Case Study of Symbolic Management on “Biomass Nippon Strategy” Abstract: Drawing on management literature, this paper examines the shortcomings of contemporary budget allocation procedures in the Japanese government. In order to improve efficiency in utilizing the national budget, the Japanese government has promoted priority-driven budgeting. However, such efforts have often end in failure because the government tends…

Toshihiro Nishiguchi, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University, has won the Tadao Kiyonari’s JASVE (The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs) Award, in addition to the Shoko Research Institute’s (SRI) prestigious Annual Award for Outstanding Studies on Small Business received earlier this year. The JASVE Award is offered to an outstanding book and a journal article that achieve excellence in small-business and entrepreneurship 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 JASVE’s Book-section Award. A product of twelve years of research, hundreds of field visits, and more…

Professor Yaichi Aoshima 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:  October 28, 2017 Award Winner: Professor Yaichi AOSHIMA (with Professor Kazunari MATSUSHIMA and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization)) 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)

Professor Hiroshi SHIMIZU received the 33rd Annual Takamiya Award for Best Book from the Academic Association for Organizational Science Organization: The Academic Association for Organizational Science Award:  Takamiya Award for Best Book Date:  June 17, 2017 Award Winner: Professor Hiroshi SHIMIZU Book Title: Innovations in General Purpose Technology: Technological Development of Semiconductor Lasers in the U.S. and Japan Website for the Academic Association for Organizational Science http://www.aaos.or.jp/contents/world/us.html http://www.aaos.or.jp/contents/news/?page=2　               (In Japanese) http://www.yuhikaku.co.jp/books/detail/9784641164697　(In Japanese)

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,…

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   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)