Date：
June 30（Monday), 2025
from 16:30 to 17:30
Topic:
“Rare Diseases, Real Options: Unlocking Strategic Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation”
Speaker:
SHORT, Cole Evan
(Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University／Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Venue:
onsite
IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building
Organizer:
Padrón-Hernández, Ivar
This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study.
Deadline:
9:00, June 30, 2025
For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below.
●Forum 2025
2025.11.26
Victor Gilsing
(Professor, School of Business and Economics, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
”The Innovation Puzzle : Banish the Innovation Killers and become an Emerging Champion”
2025.10.27
Mauricio Latapí
(Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University, Canada)
”Shaping Sustainable Futures: Innovation in Reporting and Zero-Emission Pathways for the Shipping and Energy Sectors”
2025.10.15
Cornelia Storz
(Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
”Business Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation”
2025.6.30
SHORT, Cole Evan
(Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University／Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
”Rare Diseases, Real Options: Unlocking Strategic Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation”
2025.4.9
David A. Kirsch
(Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the College of Information Studies (by courtesy) at the University of Maryland)
”Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery”
About the Erasmus+ Program:
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/chukyo/chukyo4/007/gijiroku/030101/2-7.htm
About VU University Amsterdam:
https://vu.nl/nl
Specialty: Management of Technology, Intellectual property management
【Career】
2013 BBA., School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University.
2013-2016 Senior Consultant., GBS Consulting., Inc.
2022 MBA., Graduate school of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
2025 Ph.D., Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University.
2025-present Project Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kanagawa University.
2025-present Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Junior Fellow), Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University.
2025-present Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University.
【Recent Research Themes】
OB and its impact on firm innovation in the standardization of wireless communication technology
Corporate Governance and firm performance
Corporate initiatives and policies in 5G/6G technology and standardization
Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Associate Professor and Junya Kataoka, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, received Best Paper Award at 39th Annual Conference of Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management.
Organization:
Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management
Award:
Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management Best Paper Award
Date:
October 27, 2024
Award Winner:
Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi (Associate Professor, IIR)
Junya Kataoka (Specially Appointed Assistant professor, IIR)
Kazuki Yokota (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University)
Sotaro Shibayama (The University of Tokyo)
Mari Kawamura (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy)
Article Title:
“Effects of transferable skills of doctoral graduates on job satisfaction and mobility”
Abstract:
Does acquiring highly transferable skills that are applicable in sectors other than the academic sector increase the likelihood of finding a job that is satisfying? This study analyzes the impact of transferable skills on job-hopping behavior and job satisfaction based on individual data from a follow-up survey of doctoral graduates in Japan. As a result, we find that those who cited positive attitudes and communication skills as abilities they had acquired during their doctoral studies and were using at work tended to be more satisfied with their jobs. Furthermore, this trend was particularly noticeable among those who were dissatisfied with their early career roles. There was also a tendency for such people to be more likely to change jobs. In other words, having the ability to be proactive and communicate well enabled them to change their unsatisfactory workplace or influence those around them. These results empirically demonstrate the importance of transferable skills.
Website for the Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management (in Japanese):
jsrpim.jp/bpa
Prof. KOIZUMI, Hideto
Assistant Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (2025.4.1 – )
▶ Researcher Profile
Prof. SHORT, Cole Evan
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research (2025.4.4 – 2025.7.9)
Assistant Professor of Strategy, Graziadio Business School, Pepperdine University
▶ Researcher Profile
Prof. SHORT, Cole Evan
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (2025.4.4 – 2025.7.9)
Assistant Professor of Strategy, Graziadio Business School, Pepperdine University
https://bschool.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/cole-short/
【Recent Research Themes】
Strategic factors that inform innovation, such as how organizations seize emerging market opportunities or navigate AI’s impacts.
Date：
April 9（Wednesday), 2025
from 17:30 to 19:00
Topic:
“Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery”
Speaker:
David A. Kirsch
(Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the College of Information Studies (by courtesy) at the University of Maryland)
Abstract:
Studies of industry emergence have often generated insights from empirical contexts with a one-to-one correspondence between a technology and its application. In parallel, studies of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) have documented the economic impact and versatility of technologies with broad downstream applications, although these studies often abstract away from the endogenous and gradual process through which a single technology underpins multiple downstream markets, in practice assuming that “generality” is an intrinsic, ex ante observable attribute of a given technology. To address the research gap at this intersection, this study leverages the applicability of lithium-ion batteries in multiple applications: consumer electronics, electric vehicles, space missions, and utility grids. Using a longitudinal, multi-level, single-case analysis, this study proposes a conceptual framework about the impediments to the diffusion of a single technology to multiple applications, including application-specific uncertainties that resurface in each application, and their system-wide implications for commercial viability at each technology-application nexus. The conclusion considers the circumstances under which these impediments and associated investments may generalize to other “potential” GPTs.
Venue:
onsite
IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building
Organizer:
Masaru Karube
This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study.
Deadline:
9:00, April 9, 2025
For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below.
Vol.72 No.4 SPR. 2025 (In Japanese)
A leading management journal in Japanese,
which builds a bridge between theory and practice.
EDITED BY
Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research
PUBLISHED BY
Toyo Keizai Inc.
Rethinking Capitalism : The Evolving Expectations for Firms and Leaders
Ikujiro Nonaka / Emi Osono
“Crisis of Modern Management and Dynamic Duality”
Takashi Mitachi
“Managing through Two Juxtapositioned Times”
Takashi Nawa
“Implementing Purpose by Embedding Ethics in the Organization”
Nobuhiro Endo
“Efforts to Get to the Core or Very Essence of New Value Creation”
Yuki Mizobuchi / Nozomi Torii / Kenji Shino
“Use Business as a Force for Good”
Kohei Takashima
“Solving Social Issues of Food through Business”
●Content Business Reflecting Society (2)
Fumihiko Ikuine
●Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management (6)
Tomoyuki Shimanuki
●Entrepreneurs Who Change the World (22)
Yasukane Matsumoto
Interviewed by Yaichi Aoshima / Masatoshi Fujiwara
●Business Cases
Ryohei Abe / Takahiko Yano / Rieko Wakai / Yaichi Aoshima
“Workman”
Kazuhiro Takahashi
“Bengo4.com”
●Management Forum
Yuko Kawamura
(the President of the National Personnel Agency)
Interviewed by Emi Osono
●Porter Prize2024
Emi Osono
Date:
February 6 (Thursday), 2025
from 12:40 to 14:00
Topic:
“Japan-EU relations in times of changing geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics”
Abstract:
The economic partnership agreement (EPA) together with the subsequent strategic partnership agreement (SPA) has laid the foundation for both width and depth in the EU-Japan relationship. Collaboration around the rules-based world order is important for both parties in parallel with facilitating frameworks for digitalization and a transition towards a green economy. In the shadow of the complex and difficult US-China relationship, the foundation for a stronger relationship between the economic and political partners of EU-Japan would be possible for the future. This paper aims to discuss these dynamics and some of the potential areas for collaboration.
Speaker:
Patrik Ström
(Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) and Center for Asian Studies (CAS), Stockholm School of Economics)
Bio:
Patrik Ström is the Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) and Center for Asian Studies (CAS) at Stockholm School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Roskilde University, Denmark and an Econ Dr. in Economic Geography from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research is focusing on the development of the advanced service industry and the transformation of economies that are becoming more service and knowledge based. The primary regional focus has been Japan, East Asia, and Latin America as well as the Single Internal Market for services in the EU. Patrik has also been involved in various policy related activities connected to the EU single market for services, such as the High-Level Group on Business Services, where he chaired the working group on internationalization. In addition, Patrik has been involved as an external expert in projects conducted by UNCTAD and the ILO.
Venue:
onsite
IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building
Organizer:
Padrón-Hernández, Ivar
This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study.
Deadline:
9:00, February 6, 2025
For registration, please click on “IIR Brown bag lunch seminar” below
