Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research

Innovation Forum 2025.10.15 Cornelia Storz

Date:October 15(Wednesday), 2025from 16:00 to 17:30 Topic:“Business Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation” Speaker:Cornelia Storz(Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt) Abstract:Why do business scholars-directors, rather than STEM scholar-directors, drive firm innovation? This paper addresses this unexpected pattern through an abductive research design combining panel data, interviews, and publication analysis. Drawing on a hand-collected dataset of Chinese listed firms (2008–2018), we show that business scholars on corporate boards enhance innovation by contributing strategic knowledge – higher-order, portable insights rooted in frameworks, heuristics, and theories that help firms navigate the uncertainty inherent in innovation across market dynamics, organizational design, and competitive positioning. We theorize strategic knowledge as a distinct asset, whose impact is contingent on insider technology directors’…

Professor Beckers from Eindhoven University of Technology and his students visited IIR.

On July 17, Professor Rudi Beckers from Eindhoven University of Technology visited the Institute of Innovation Research  with approximately 20 undergraduate and graduate students, where a joint seminar was held with Professor Byeongwoo Kang. During the seminar, Professor Kang delivered a lecture titled “Corporate Strategy with a Japanese Case Study.” Following the lecture, an active Q&A session and discussions took place with the participating students, providing a valuable opportunity for meaningful exchange on both sides.   The purpose of this visit was to foster international academic collaboration and deepen cross-cultural understanding. It provided an excellent platform for engaging intellectual exchange among all participants.

【Event Report】AMJ Paper & Idea Development Workshop

On Monday, June 23, 2025, the “AMJ Paper & Idea Development Workshop” was held at the Hitotsubashi Hall, with Hitotsubashi University serving as the host institution. Eight editors from the Academy of Management (AOM) traveled to Japan to participate, and a total of 60 researchers from both domestic and international institutions attended the event. The details of the workshop are as follows. The opening remarks were delivered by Professor Yaichi Aoshima of the Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research, who also serves as the President of the Academic Association for Organizational Science. Date: Monday, June 23, 2025, 9:30 AM – 3:00 PMVenue: Hitotsubashi Hall (1st and 2nd Floor Meeting Rooms),…

Research Exchange through the EU Educational Support Program “Erasmus+ KA107”

As part of the EU educational support initiative Erasmus+ KA107, we have launched an international collaborative research program focused on green innovation. This initiative promotes international mobility and joint research between graduate students and faculty members of VU University Amsterdam and the Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research (IIR). About the Erasmus+ Program:https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/chukyo/chukyo4/007/gijiroku/030101/2-7.htm About VU University Amsterdam:https://vu.nl/nl

IIR Innovation Research Workshop 2025 2025.8.28-29

■IIR Innovation Research Workshop 2025(Hybrid) This year, the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University will hold the 3rd IIR Innovation Research Workshop. To promote, drive, and boost innovation research, we welcome students, researchers, and practitioners to exchange knowledge and creativity. Date: August 28-29, 2025Venue: Multipurpose Room, Mercury Tower 7F, Kunitachi-east campus, Hitotsubashi University(2-4 Higashi, Kunitachi, Tokyo)& ZOOM Meeting*Audience members will be able to join us online and in-person. CALL for PAPERSDeadline: May 30, 2025CLICK HERE CALL for AUDIENCEDeadline: 9:00, August 21, 2025CLICK HERE Program 2025

Notice on Summer Vacation

To promote energy conservation on campus and to refresh the minds and bodies of faculty and staff, we will have a summer vacation from August 9 to August 14. Offices will be closed during this time. We ask for your cooperation. CLOSED: from Saturday, August 9, 2025 to Thursday, August 14, 2025 We will resume work on Friday, August 15, 2025. Thank you. IIR, Hitotsubashi University

Innovation Forum 2025.6.30 SHORT, Cole Evan

Date: June 30(Monday), 2025 from 16:30 to 17:30 Topic: “Rare Diseases, Real Options: Unlocking Strategic Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation” Speaker: SHORT, Cole Evan (Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University/Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer: Padrón-Hernández, Ivar This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline: 9:00, June 30, 2025 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

New Specially Appointed Assistant Professor / Researcher Profile You, Kyoungmin

You, Kyoungmin Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (2025.5.1~) Specialty: Management of Technology, Intellectual property management 【Career】2013               BBA., School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University.2013-2016     Senior Consultant., GBS Consulting., Inc.2022               MBA., Graduate school of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba.2025               Ph.D., Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University.2025-present Project Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kanagawa University.2025-present Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Junior Fellow), Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University.2025-present Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University. 【Recent Research Themes】OB and its impact on firm innovation in the standardization of wireless communication…

Forum 2025.4.9 David A. Kirsch

Date:April 9(Wednesday), 2025from 17:30 to 19:00 Topic:“Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery” Speaker:David A. Kirsch(Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the College of Information Studies (by courtesy) at the University of Maryland) Abstract:Studies of industry emergence have often generated insights from empirical contexts with a one-to-one correspondence between a technology and its application. In parallel, studies of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) have documented the economic impact and versatility of technologies with broad downstream applications, although these studies often abstract away from the endogenous and gradual process through which a single technology underpins multiple downstream markets, in practice assuming that “generality” is an…

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