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Hideto Koizumi, Adjunct Post-doctoral Fellow, received Encouragement Award 2020 from the Japan Institute of Public Finance. Organization: Japan Institute of Public Finance Award: Encouragement Award Achievements: “Optimal Uniform Capital Taxation in A Partially Automated Society” Abstract: Recent automating technologies have sparked discussions on “robot taxes,” aimed to dissuade the displacement of labor and to generate revenue to redistribute to displaced laborers. Implementing such taxes is challenging, however, in part because of the difficulty in clearly separating which technologies substitute for labor from those which complement it. Modeling automating technologies as intermediate goods, I consider the optimal tax policy in this environment. As in standard models, non-linear labor taxes are assigned…

PADRÓN-HERNÁNDEZ, Ivar, Assistant Professor, received The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2020. Organization:Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) Award:The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award Achievements:“When International Strategy Meets Local Institutions: Subsidiary Influence in the Context of Headquarter Initiatives” Abstract:What do foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises do when strategies proposed by headquarters clash with local ways of doing business? Through 105 interviews at AB Volvo, Tomra and DeLaval, this dissertation explores, unpacks, and widens our understanding of the dilemmas and implications of subsidiaries’ dual belonging to corporate and local contexts. Findings on how subsidiaries in the United States, Japan, Germany, and France handled institutional friction caused by innovative and…

2020.07.15 Professor Ichikawa joined us as a professor. Welcome! Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (2020.7.15-)

2020.05.01Professor Kyle Higham joined us as a specially appointed research associate. Welcome! Specially Appointed Research Associate, Institute of Innovation Research (2020.5.1-)

Professor Yaichi AOSHIMA received the 60th Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize. Organization:Mainichi Shimbun Award:Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize Date:March 30, 2020 Award Winner:Professor Masatoshi FUJIWARA and Yaichi AOSHIMA Book Title:Mechanisms for the Long-term Innovation: A History of the RO Membrane’s Technological Development, Tokyo: Toyokeizai, August 2019, 456 pages Each year, the Mainichi Shimbun Economist Prize, under the auspices of Mainichi Shimbun Economist editorial department, is awarded to the authors of a book that has significant empirical and theoretical contributions. Selected from books published between January and December 2019, the 60th Economist Prize was awarded to Professors Fujiwara and Aoshima for Mechanisms for Long-term Innovation: A History of the RO Membrane’s Technological Development,…

2020.04.01 Professor Ivar Padrón-Hernández joined us as a assistant professor. Welcome! Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (2020.4.1-)

2020.4.1 Professor Vili Lehdonvirta joined us as a visiting associate professor from University of Oxford . Welcome! Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (2020.4.1-2020.9.30)