Category: IIR News

Topic: “Recombinant innovation and interfirm networks in the motorsport industry” Speaker: Mariotti, Francesca (Senior Lecturer, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University/ Visiting Researcher, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Date: July 24 (Wednesday), 2024 from 12:00 to 13:00 Venue: onsite IIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) Organizer: Yaichi Aoshima This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline: 9:00, July 24, 2024 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar ” below IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Topic: “Measuring Societal Impacts of Standards” Speaker: Paul Wiegmann (Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology) Date： July 8 (Monday), 2024 from 15:30 to 17:00 Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer: Byeongwoo Kang Abstract: Society faces existential challenges, such as global warming, demographic change and digital innovations. Standards help solving problems and reaping opportunities. They have long been recognised as important, from technological, business, and economic perspectives, but clear evidence about their societal impact is still missing. Against this background, we carried out this project to get a clearer view of how standards impact society. We conducted a pre-study of 48 standards,…

Topic: “The effect of university-industry collaboration subsidies on firm performance” ※The full paper can be downloaded from here. Speaker: Paul Jensen (Professor, University of Melbourne / Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) Date： May 8 (Wednesday), 2024 from 16:00 to 17:30             ↓ May 15（Wednesday), 2024 from 16:30 to 18:00 Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building ↓ IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer: Atsushi Ohyama This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline: 9:00, May 15, 2024 For registration,…

Topic:“Doing and writing qualitative study: A case of Buddhist temples” Speaker:Hee-Chan Song(Assistant Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Date：April 25 (Thursday), 2024from 16:00 to 18:00 Venue:onsiteIIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second 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, April 25, 2024 For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below. Innovation Forum

Topic:“Smarter wellbeing: how to upscale breakthrough technologies for the environmental and societal good” Speaker:Dr. Sandra Hasanefendic(Group founder Breakthrough Tech Innovation, Assistant Professor in Breakthrough Technology,Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Date:April 25 (Thursday), 2024from 12:40 to 14:00 Venue:onsiteIIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) Organizer:Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline:9:00, April 25, 2024 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar ” below IIR Brown bag lunch seminar

Date： April 24 (Wednesday), 2024 from 15:00 to 17:10 —————————————————— ①15:00 ～ 16:00 <Topic> “Effects of Standards on Patents and Strategic Approach to Technical Standardisation” <Speaker> Dong-hyu Kim (Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow/ Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) <Organizer> Byeongwoo Kang ②16:10 ～ 17:10 <Topic> “Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data” <Speaker> Yuheng Ding (Economist, World Bank) <Organizer> Atsushi Ohyama —————————————————— This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study. Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building Deadline: 9:00, April 24, 2024 For…

Topic:“Global versus local CSR strategies to re(gain) legitimacy after a socio-ecological disaster: The case of Vale’ in Brumadinho (Brazil)” Speaker:Dr. Emilene Leite(Senior Lecturer, Örebro University, Sweden) Date：April 19 (Friday), 2024from 15:30 to 16:30 Venue:onsiteIIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second 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. Abstract:Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) are acknowledged as influential agents in advancing the United Nation’s (UN’s) Agenda 2030 through their ability to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) internationally. However, we can also learn from the mistakes of MNEs whose actions caused socio-ecological harm in their host countries. This…

Topic:“How Much of Merit Is Due to Luck? Evidence on the Butterfly Effect of Luck” Speaker:Hideto Koizumi(Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) Date:April 4 (Thursday), 2024from 12:40 to 13:40 Venue:onsiteIIR Meeting Space (Room#216) of the second floor of the IIR building (onsite) Organizer:Masaru Karube This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute of Advanced Study. Deadline:9:00, April 4, 2024 For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar ” below IIR Brown bag lunch seminar