Category: Forum

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

Innovation Forum 2015.6.24 Peter Ping Li Topic: “The second-home strategy for international strategic entrepreneurship” Speaker: Peter Ping Li  (Asia Research Center, Copenhagen Business School) Date: July 16th (thursday)  2015 from 12:15 ～ 13:45 Place:  Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: 　Masatoshi Fujiwara, Hiroshi Shimizu

Innovation Forum 2015.6.24 Kanchan Joshi Topic: “A Study of Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems with Preemption and Learning” Speaker: Kanchan Joshi  (Data Scientist, Uhuru Corporation） Date: June 24th (wednesday)  2015 from 12:15 ～ 13:45 Place:  Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Seiichiro Yonekura

Innovation Forum 2015.4.22 Ilir Haxhi Topic:“Patent Enforcement under Strong Intellectual Property Rights:The Liability of Foreignness in US Patent Litigation” Speaker:Ilir Haxhi (Assistant Professor,Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam) Date:April 22th (wednesday)  2015from 16:30 ～ 18:00 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer:Masaru Karube

Innovation Forum 2015.4.15 Min, Jungwon Topic:“Sensitivity of Alliance Termination to Pre-Alliance Formation Conditions: Expectation Effects of Alliance Partners” Speaker:Min, Jungwon (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University) Date:April 15th (wednesday)  2015from 17:00 ～ 18:30 Place: Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer:Masaru Karube