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Professor Yaichi Aoshima received Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award. Organization: The Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award: Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Award Date: October 31, 2020 Award Winner: Professor Yaichi AOSHIMA (with Professor Kazunari MATSUSHIMA (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) and Naoki TAKADA (Yokohama National University)) Article Title: “Influences by Involvement of Supported and Supporting Organizations on Publicly Supported Private-sector R&D Projects” Abstract: This paper explored the factors leading to the success of publicly-funded private R&D projects by analyzing survey data obtained from 506 projects supported by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). We particularly examined how involvement…

Professor Min Yong-Ki of Sungkyunkwan University, Professor Lee Sang-gun of Sogang Business School（Visiting Professor from Dec. 2017 to Mar. 2018 at IIR）and Professor Yaichi Aoshima of IIR were chosen as the winners of the 2020 ‘Highly Commended Paper Award’ by Emerald Publishing in the U.K. Emerald Publishing, a British publisher, annually grants the ‘Emerald Paper Prize’ to world researchers producing distinguished papers. Organization: Emerald Publishing Award: Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence 2020 Date: December 2020 Award Winner: Professors Yong-Ki Min, Sang-Gun Lee and Yaichi Aoshima http://wwwe.sogang.ac.kr/front/cmsboardview.do?siteId=wwwe&bbsConfigFK=3646&pkid=863715 Article Title: “A Comparative Study on Industrial Spillover Effects among Korea, China, the USA, Germany and Japan,” Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 119,…

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…