Category: IIR News

Topic:“Looking for allies: how individuals organize collaboration for experimentation outside routine work in corporate firms” Speaker:Nadine Scholz(PhD Student in Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation, King’s College London) Date：April 12th (Wednesday) 2023from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue:onsiteIIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer:Yaichi Aoshima Abstract:Companies often establish structured innovation programs such as intrapreneurship programs and idea challenges to harness employee creativity and enable them to experiment with new ideas. Nevertheless, employees often also take initiative to work on ideas outside such formal organizational structures to introduce innovations for the company or generate organizational change, and, as they do so, they face particular constraints. This study explores inductively…

Topic:“Value creation in corporate-startup alliance portfolios: The attention-based view” Speaker:Anoop Madhok(Professor, York University) Date：June 7th (Wednesday) 2023from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue:onsiteIIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer:Ivar Padrón-Hernández Abstract:Startups concurrently partnering with large corporations compete for the latter’s attention. We extend the attention-based view from an intraorganizational to an interorganizational context by exploring how startups differ in attention received from the corporation, their actions to attract and sustain such attention, and the impact of attention dynamics on the partnership outcomes. Our research uncovers two discontinuous contests for attention involving corporate and divisional managers, highlighting the import of the distributed nature of attention. Reflecting this,…

Brown bag lunch seminar 2023.3.22 Rudi Bekkers Topic: “From open warfare to strawman’s anonymity: Motives and strategies behind patent opposition at EPO” Speaker: Rudi Bekkers (Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology) Date: March 22th (Wednesday) 2023 from 12:30 to 13:30 Venue: HYBRID: onsite & online IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) & Zoom meeting (online) Organizer: Byeongwoo Kang Deadline: 9:00, March 22 , 2023 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar ” below. IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Topic:“A Conservation of Resources Perspective on Analyzing Founders’ Emotional Support: Performance Implications for East Asian New Ventures” Speaker:Martin Hemmert(Professor, Korea University Business School) Date：December 14th (Wednesday) 2022from 17:00 to 18:30 Venue:HYBRID: onsite & onlineIIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) & Zoom meeting (online) Organizer:Yaichi Aoshima This forum is jointly organized by AAOS (The Academic Association for Organizational Science). Abstract:Research on entrepreneurs’ emotional support by families and friends has mostly focused on personal-level outcomes, and the relevance of emotional support for new venture performance is not well understood. Building on the conservation of resources (COR) perspective, we conceptualize emotional support by families and friends…

Topic: “Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool” Speaker: Alberto Galasso (Professor, University of Toronto) Date： October 26th (Wednesday) 2022 from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue: IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama

Brown bag lunch seminar 2022.8.31 Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi Topic:“Industry experience and post-doctoral academic performance” Speaker:Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi(Assistant Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University) Date:August 31th (Wednesday) 2022from 12:40 to 14:00 Venue:HYBRID: onsite & onlineIIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) & Zoom meeting (online) Organizer:Masaru Karube Deadline:9:00, August 31 , 2022 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar ” below. IIR Brown bag lunch seminar