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■24 March, 2011Jean-Etienne de Bettignies (Associate Professor, Queen's School of Business) Product Market Competition and Managerial Employment Choices■7 March, 2011Isamu Hanyu(General Manager, Technology Research, Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited)Satoshi Takechi(Manager, Intellectual Property Unit, Standardization Promotion Department,Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited)Koji Nozaki(Research Fellow, Device & Materials Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited) Technical Innovation in ArF Resist Material for LSI Production to 90nm-Era and Beyond(G-COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)■4 February, 2011Csonka Laszlo (Research Fellow, IKU Innovation Research Centre, Financial Research Corp.)R&D and Innovation Networks in the Hungarian Automotive Industry■28 January, 2011Shigeto Hatanaka (General Manager, Fuel Research Laboratory Research & Development Division, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation)Development and Practical Application of Manufacturing Technology for Sulfur-Free Fuels(G-COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)■22 December, 2010Bernard Dankbaar （Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, and Professor of Radboud University, Nijmegen）Dynamics of High-Tech Industries: An Institutional Approach■10 December, 2010Dirk Czarnitzki （Associate Professor, KU Leuven）Competing Internationally:　On the Importance of R&D for Export Activity■1 December, 20101) Satoru Ito(Adjunct Professor of Institute of Innovation

■26 March, 2009 Jinyoung Kim(Professor, Department of Economics, Korea University and Research Associate, Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development, SUNY at Buffalo) 'International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set'■18 March, 2009Cornelia Storz(Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University) 'How do new industries emerge? The case of Japan's game software and biotech industry'■18 March, 2009Nobuyuki Hanaki (Doctoral Program in Economics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba) 'Complexity, Uncertainty, and Organizational Congruency' (joint with Hideo Owan)■5 March, 2009Takayoshi Mamine(Project Professor, Collaborative Research Development, Division of University Corporate Relations, The University of Tokyo) 'The Development of MOCVD: Mass Production of Compound Semiconductor Devices'(GCOE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)■23 February, 2009Ulrike Schaede(Professor, University of California at San Diego) 'The Demise of the Main Bank as a Last Resort: Changes in Corporate Restructuring in Japan, 1981-2007' (this paper is co-authored with Takeo Hoshi and Satoshi Koibuchi)■4 February, 2009Hiroyoshi Kimura(President, Kimura Chuzosho Co., Ltd.)Toshitake Kanno(Director/R&D department director, Kimura

■28 February, 2007Makoto Kitamura(Junior Research Fellow, IIR, Hitotsubashi University)'Institutionalizing the Use of "Surrogate Consumer": Its Influence on Consumers' Decision Making'■28 February, 2007Ng Shuk Yee Sally(Junior Research Fellow, IIR, Hitotsubashi University)'"Car Town" in Huadu District, Guanzhou: Its Formation and Influence on the Smaller Peripheral Cities and Towns'■26 January, 2007Minoru Usui(Director, General Administrative Manager, Production Engineering & Development Division, Seiko Epson Corporatio)'Development of an Ink Jet Printer that Produces Higi Resolution Text and Pictorial Images'(COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)■22 December, 2006Takeshi Nomura(Director, Senior Vice President,TDK Corporation)'Development of Highly Reliable Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors with Ni Electrode'(COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)■14 November, 2006Iain Cockburn(School of Management, Boston University)'Entry, Exit and Patenting in the Software Industry'■27 September, 2006Fumikazu Itoh(General Manager Production Engineering Research Laboratory Hitachi, Ltd.)'Development of direct on-chip wiring formation system for LSIs'(COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)■12 September, 2006Akiyasu Okuno(Manager, Electric Energy storage solution Group, R&D Center, The Tokyo Electric PowerCompany, Incorporated)Keiichi Mori(Assistant Manager, NAS Development Department, NAS

24 March, 2005Bronwyn H. Hall(Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley)James Pooley(Partner with the PaloAlto, California, law firm Milbank Tweed)'A Patent System for the 21st Century'■23 March, 2005Xielin Liu(Research Fellow and Professor,National Center for Science and Technology for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, China)'Chinese Model of Catching-up in a New Development Paradigm'■15 February, 2005Xielin Liu(Research Fellow and Professor,National Center for Science and Technology for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, China)'Small Workshop on Chinese Automobile Industry'■13 Januaryr, 2005Hiroshi Nagano(Director General, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy,Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)'Toward the development of the next basic national planfor science and technology development'■21 December, 2004Nozomu Takahashi(STUDIO GHIBLI, Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.Nippon Television Network Corporation)'Penetration and Proliferation of the Subculture'(Subculture Workshop)■17 December, 2004Atsuyoshi Koike(Chief Executive, Trecenti Technologies Inc.)'Development of New 300mm Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems'(COE Research Project on Okochi Prize Cases)■16 December, 2004Denis Fandel(SEMATECH (USA))'Economic Model by ISMI (International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative)'■8 December, 2004Keiji Matsuda(Executive Director, East Japan Division Manager and Blast Furnance Project

■24 February, 2003J.A. Stam(Professor, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)'Management of Technology in Japan: Some Observations'■5 February, 2003Jon Sigurdson(Coordinator, Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies, Professor and Director of East Asia Science and Technology Programme, Stockholm School of Economics)'Corporate R&D and Global Knowledge Systems: The Case of Ericsson'■17 January, 2003Toshikazu Nishino(General Manager, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd)'Nanoelectronics'■20 Decｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Kazuo Sawada(Senior General Manager of Technology,Maglev Systems Development Department,Railway Technical Research Institute)'Superconductivity and Linear Motor Car'■13 Decｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Yoshimi Kubo(Nanotube Technology Center, Fundamental Resarch Laboratories, NEC Laboratories)'Fuel Cell or Carbon Nanotube'■6 Decｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Tadahi Watanabe(Vice President, NEC Solutions)'Supercomputer'■4 Decｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Tony Garret(Lecturer, Depertment of Marketing, University of Otago)'National Culture and New Product Development Work Group Dynamics: A Cross-Cultural Study between New Zealand and Singapore'■29 Ｎｏｖｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Masao Kawachi(Director, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories)'Terabit Communication'■22 Ｎｏｖｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Sunao Ishihara(Director, NTT Basic Research Laboratories)'Nanodevices'■15 Ｎｏｖｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Tsuguo Takebayashi(Chief engineer, OYO Corporation)'Underground Excavation'■8 Ｎｏｖｅｍｂｅｒ, 2002Toshihiro Akaike(Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technorogy)'Artificial Organs'■25 October, 2002Okio Hino(Chief, Department of Experimental Pathology, Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research)'Drama Type of Cancer'■22 October, 2002Timo Saarinen(Professor, Electronic Business, Helsinki School of Economics)Jarkko Vesa(Ph.D. candidate, Helsinki School of Economics)'Customer Relationship