The e-education project in Institute of Innovation Research, hitotsubashi University receives the 9th Japanese e-Learning Awards for international contribution in 2012 by e-learning awards forum committee and Fuji Sankei Bbusiness i.

Director’s Message: It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our recently updated website. The Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research was created in 1997 as the first organization in Japan to research innovation from the viewpoint of the social sciences. Since then, the expectations placed on us have grown larger with each passing year, and today we are keenly aware of the importance of our responsibilities. Contemporary society demands innovation. Financial problems related to corporate management and industrial policy, challenges such as social issues that are rocking the foundations of people’s lives, and environmental problems that could radically affect the very continuation of the earth as we know it, are all problems that will only grow dramatically…