Category: Workshop

■ Workshop on Innovation in Digital Industries Date: February 23, 2017 Venue: Sano-shoin Hall, Hitotsubashi University Innovation in digital industries now figures prominently in determining aggregate economic outcomes in the economy. Digital goods are pervasive and range from computer software to music, film and games, engineering blueprints, and even DNA sequences. There have been important discussions about whether new digital technological advances contribute to growth in productivity. Less attention, however, has been paid to understand the industry’s boundaries, the accompanying organizational changes necessary to reap advances in the new digital technologies as well as the conditions for firms and countries to be successful entrants. The workshop aims at a discussion…

■NUS-IIR Workshop on Innovation Date: September 11-13, 2015 Venue: National University of Singapore Organized by D-ETM (Division of Engineering & Technology Management), NUS and IIR, Hitotsubashi University 1. Program Sep. 11 (Fri) 14:00-18:30 Workshop by Faculty members 18:45-20:00 Reception 12 (Sat) 09:00-10:45 Students presentation (AM session) 11:00-12:00 Keynote speech by Prof. Nobeoka (Director of IIR) 13:00-17:00 Students presentation (PM session) 13 (Sun) 10:00-12:00 Conference tour (Library, etc.) 2. Participants D-ETM, NUS Prof. Chang Chieh Hang (Head, D-ETM, Exec. Dir. IEL) Prof. Chihiro Watanabe (Visiting Prof., D-ETM) Prof. Foo Maw Der (Associate Prof., D-ETM) Prof. Chai Kah Hin (Deputy Head, D-ETM) Dr Annapoornima Subramanian (Assistant Prof., D-ETM) Prof. Wim Vanhaverbeke (Visiting…

Workshop on the Disclosure Function of the Patent System　2015.3.7 Date: March 7th (Saturday) 2015 Time: 13:00 pm to 17:30 pm Venue: First Floor of National Center of Sciences Building (Gakujutsu Sogo Center) (Chiyoda Campus of Hitotsubashi University, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, Japan)) About a 4-minute walk from Exit 1b of Takebashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Subway Tozai Line Preliminary Program: 13:00  Keynote speeches  (40 minutes each, 20 minutes Q&A) Chair    Sadao Nagaoka (1) “Do inventors value secrecy in patenting? Evidence from the American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999,” Stuart GRAHAM, Georgia Institute of Technology and USPTO (2) “Patent systems and citation metrics,” Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Dean, Solvay Business…

Workshop on Knowledge, IPRs and Innovation Date: November 16th (Sunday) 2014 Venue: Expert-Club (Kasumigaseki Common Gate Shop & Restaurant Annex 1F, 3-2-3 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku) http://www.kk2.ne.jp/kk2/ex_club_web/ Start time is changed 15:00 Open 15:30 to 17:00 1. Presentations by　Japanese scholars Chair　 Dietmar Harhoff, Professor and Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research,   Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (1) Tetsuo Wada, Gakushuin University, “Quality Comparison of International Search Reports” (2) Yoshimi Okada, Hitotsubashi University, “Effect of early patent disclosure on knowledge dissemination: Evidence from the impact of introducing Pre-Grant Publication System in the United States” (3)　Isamu Yamauchi, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, “Use of science for inventions and its…

International Workshop on Patent System Design for innovation Date:   August 1st  (Friday) 2014 Venue:  IIR conference room, Second Floor of the IIR Building 12:00 to 13:30 Chair    Sadao Nagaoka, Professor, Hitotsubashi University Luncheon Key-note Speech on “A Perspective of Japanese Patent System” Hidetaka Aizawa, Professor, Hitotsubashi University (60 minutes presentation) 13:30 to 15:00   Chair    Reiko Aoki, Professor, Hitotsubashi University Key note speech on “Patents and Diffusion: Global Drug Launches” Mark Schankerman, Professor, London School of Economics (60 minutes presentation ) 15:00  Presentations of three ongoing research  (45 minutes each, including Q&A) Chair     Mark Schankerman, Professor, London School of Economics (1)”Quality Comparison of International Search Reports…

International Workshop on Science Sources of Innovation Date and time: March 17th (Monday), 2014,  from 10:30 to 17:45 Venue: National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) Main Conference Room (16B) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) 16th Floor, Central Government Building No.7 East Wing 3-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013 Jointly Organized by Hitotsubashi University (Institute of Innovation Research), NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) and RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) Objective: This research workshop focuses on the process of science based innovation as well as policies for promoting the synergy between the two. It invites a leading scholar on Innovation Economics,…

International research workshop on science-based innovation (Preliminary) Date and time: October 1st (Tuesday) from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm Venue: National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) Main Conference Room (16B) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) 16th Floor, Central Government Building No.7 East Wing 3-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013 Jointly Organized by Hitotsubashi University (Institute of Innovation Research ) and NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) Objective: This research workshop focuses on the process of science-based innovation as well as policies for promoting the synergy between the two. It invites Prof. Massimo G. Colombo, Full Professor of Economics of Innovation of Politecnico di…

2013 International Workshop on Innovations and IPRs  Co-Organized by: Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University SSK program in Economics (Inha University), Korea Date   June 29th 2013 Venue  IIR, Hitotsubashi University   (Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building) 9: 30 to 10:30 Keynote   “Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry,”            Mark Schankerman (LSE)            Chair:  Reiko Aoki (Hitotsubashi University) 10:50 to 12:20 (25 minutes presentation and 20 minutes discussions (10 minutes for a lead discussant)) 1. Inventor session  (Chair: Hideo Owan, University of Tokyo) (1) “Labor Mobility and Productivity of Korean Inventors,” 　　 Jinyoung Kim (Korea University)    …

Research Workshop on Innovation Process Day: March 18th 2013, Time: 9:30 to 18:30Venue：Hitotsubashi University, East Campus (Conference room, the third floor of Faculty Building 3)This research workshop on innovation process invites the researchers who have participated in the program of “University-industry-government collaborative research on innovation process” to present their findings from completed or ongoing research projects. The research projects cover the research on knowledge production in science, the research on NEDO consortiums, and the research on university and industry collaborative research. The researches have been supported from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS): Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (No. 20223002) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (No. 21243020)Session…

Research workshop on “IPRs and standard for innovation: Institutional design” Date:  October 16th,  2012, from 9: 20 am to 1:00 pm Venue:  International Conference Room, Third floor,   (Faculty Building 3, Hitotsubashi University) Organized by “Science of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program” (Institute of Innovation Research),  Research Institute for Policies on Pension (Institute of Economic Research) and Aging and Research Project on Evolution of Standards) Provisional Program 1st session on Standard and Collaboration 9: 20-11:20     (25 minutes presentations and 15 minutes Q&A) Chair: Sadao Nagaoka   Professor, Hitotsubashi University “Entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and platform technologies”, Stuart Graham, Chief Economist of the USPTO “Patent Law Design in the…