Innovation Forum 2016.4.20 Veikko Thiele Topic: “Fostering Entrepreneurship: Backing Founders or Investors?” Speaker: Veikko Thiele (Associate Professor, Queen’s University) Date: April 20th (Wednesday) 2016 from 14:00 ～ 15:00 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama
Innovation Forum 2016.5.25 Sunil Mani Topic: “One Size Does Not Fit All: An Analysis of the Importance of Industry-specific Vertical Policies for Growing High Technology Industries in India.” Speaker: Sunil Mani (Professor, Center for Development Studies) Date: May 25th (Wednesday) 2016 from 12:15 ～ 13:45 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Innovation Forum 2016.4.20 Ben Dankbaar Topic:“From Catching up to Meeting the Grand Challenges: The Changing Faces of Industrial Policy.” Summary:Industrial policy is back on the political agenda, but remains highly controversial. Some industrial policies are heavily criticized, while others are drawing broad support. This paper offers a typology of industrial policies, which aims to clarify the issues involved and the theoretical foundations for different policies. Four types are distinguished. It is argued that that all four are practiced today, but that they made their first appearance in different periods in history.Therefore, the typology is called ‘quasi-historical’. The second half of the paper focuses on modern discussions about the role of…
Innovation Forum 2016.4.13 Michael G Jacobides Topic:“Scale, Scope and Performance Dynamics: A Population Study ofthe Evolution of Bank Holding Companies and Their Performance Changes,1990-2014” Speaker: Michael G Jacobides(Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, andAssociate Professor, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Department, London Business School) Date:April 13th (Wednesday) 2016from 16:30 ～ 18:00 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Yaichi Aoshima
Innovation Forum 2016.3.16 Dumisani Magadlela Topic:“You Cannot Teach a Lion to Roar: African Skills Development andCapacity Building: Challenging Old Paradigms While Grabbing NewOpportunities” Speaker: Dumisani Magadlela(Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi UniversityProgramme Manager, Pan African Capacity Building Programme,Development Bank of Southern Africa) Date:March 16th (Wednesday) 2016from 12:15 ～ 13:45 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Innovation Forum 2016.2.8 Hitoshi Mitsuhashi Topic:“Missing Contenders: Competitive Asymmetry and Organizational Inattentiveness to Potential Competitive Threats” Although previous research has suggested the possibility of firms not mutually recognizing each other as rivals (i.e., competitiveasymmetry) and cautioned managers that failing to recognize or missing identifying potential rivals can have detrimental consequences on organizational survival, little empirical effort has been made to explore why firms fail to consider other firms that view them as rivals (i.e., contenders). In this study, we posit that competitive asymmetry could be an unintentional or intentional consequence of two sequential and interdependent processes: noticing and classification. Using the 10-K data as to how firms view their own…
Innovation Forum 2016.2.3 Jiangyun Wan Topic: “Brand Loyalty and Generic Competition” Speaker: Jiangyun Wan (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Date: February 3rd (Wednesday) 2016 from 12:15 ～ 13:45 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Innovation Forum 2015.11.25 Nabil Abou Lebdi Topic:“Radical Innovation – A domain of SMEs? A novel test of the Schumpeterian Hypothesis” Speaker: Nabil Abou Lebdi(University of Luxembourg) Date:November 25th (Wednesday) 2015from 12:15 ～ 13:15 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama Hiroyuki Okamuro
Innovation Forum 2015.11.4 Matthias Kipping Topic: “The Rise of Management Power: Business Schools, Consultants, Media” Speaker: Matthias Kipping (Professor of Policy, Schulich School of Business, York University) Date: November 4th (Wednesday) 2015 from 12:15 ～ 13:45 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Innovation Forum 2015.7.15 Nobuyuki Hanaki Topic:“Cognitive Ability and Strategic Uncertainty in an Experimental Asset Market” Speaker:Nobuyuki Hanaki(Aix-Marseille University) Date:July 15th (Wednesday) 2015from 16:00 ～ 17:30 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama
