Category: Forum

Brown bag lunch seminar 2019.5.29 Yaichi Aoshima Topic: “Expanding the limits of problem-solving: How has the life of optical lithography   technology been repeatedly extended?” Speaker: Yaichi Aoshima (Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University) Date: May 29th (Wednesday)  2019 from 12:40 to 13:30 Place:  IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Masaru Karube Deadline: 9:00, May 29 , 2019 IIR Brown bag lunch seminar 

Brown bag lunch seminar 2019.4.17 Jungwoo Lee Topic: “Changing Nature of Work with ICT” Speaker: Jungwoo Lee (Visiting Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University ／ Professor, Yonsei University) Date: April 17th (Wednesday)  2019 from 12:40 to 13:30 Place:  IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Masaru Karube

Innovation Forum 2019.4.16 Christopher L. Tucci Topic: “Putting “dumb money” to good use? Corporate venture capital as a complement   to internal R&D (With Henry Chesbrough and Vareska van de Vrande)” Speaker: Christopher L. Tucci (Professor of Management of Technology,  the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Date: April 16th (Tuesday)  2019 from 16:00 to 17:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Yaichi Aoshima  Abstract:  The role of corporate venture capital (CVC) programs inside the firm has received relatively little scholarly attention. Do these programs substitute for traditional corporate investments, such as R&D? Or do they complement internal R&D? To further explore this phenomenon, we…

Innovation Forum 2019.3.18 Donal Crilly Topic: “Corporate Social Counterpositioning” Speaker: Donal Crilly (Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, London Business School) Date: March 18th (Monday)  2019 from 11:45 to 13:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Masaru Karube 

Innovation Forum 2019.1.25 Ning Li Topic: “Social Network Perspectives in Organizational Research: Past, Present, and Future” Speaker: Ning Li (Associate Professor, Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa) Date: January 25th (Friday)  2019 from 13:00 to 15:00 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Abstract: Over the past decade, social network research has been a powerful tool to understand important organizational phenomena spanningdifferent research areas, such as leadership (Carter, DeChurch, Braun,& Contractor, 2015), teamwork (Li, Zhao, Walter, Zhang, & Yu, 2015), creativity and innovation (Perry-Smith & Shalley, 2003), career (Seibert, Kraimer, & Liden, 2001), power and influence (Ibarra & Andrews, 1993). A social network approach allows organizational…

Innovation Forum 2019.1.25 Helen Zhao Topic: “Social Network Research Method Workshop” Speaker: Helen Zhao (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong) Date: January 25th (Friday)  2019 from 10:00 to 12:00 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Abstract:  Social network analysis workshop in the morning will introduce  the theory and the method of social network analysis. We will  together go through   (1) What is social network analysis?   (2) What are the commonly used indicators to describe a social network?   (3) What is the theoretical rationale behind these social network indicators?  We will demonstrate social network analysis with UCINET software.  Interested participants can download…

Innovation Forum 2018.12.12 Martin HEMMERT Topic: “Why not internationalization? A longitudinal study of IT start-ups in China, South Korea and Japan” Speaker: Martin HEMMERT (Professor, School of Business, Korea University／ Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Date: December 12th (Wednesday)  2018 from 17:00 to 18:30 Place:  IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building　 Organizer:  Yaichi Aoshima