Category: Award

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)  

Atsushi OHYAMA, Associate Professor, received 2015 NISTEP Award (The Researchers with Nice Step from NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy)) NISTEP Award (The Researchers with Nice Step) Since 2005, NISTEP has been selecting people who have made significant contributions to science and technology as “NISTEP Award (The Researchers with Nice Step)”. http://www.nistep.go.jp/en/?page_id=13 Organization:  NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) Award:  2015 NISTEP Award (The Researchers with Nice Step) Date: December 10, 2015 Award Winner: Associate Professor Atsushi OHYAMA Press releases concerning NISTEP Award (The Researchers with Nice Step) (in Japanese): http://www.nistep.go.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/nistep2015.pdf Interviews (in Japanese): http://www.nistep.go.jp/activities/sti-horizon%E8%AA%8C/vol-02no-01/stih00013 http://www.cm.hit-u.ac.jp/hitmagazine/2016/01/-2015.html