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Business Review Vol.60 No.4 SPR. 2013

Vol.60 No.4 SPR. 2013 (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.

Cross-Border M&A
Isao Okubo /  Nobuo Sayama
“Current Outlook of Japanese Cross-Border M&A”
Tomonori Ito 
“Cross-Border M&A and Management Strategy”
Yuji Nishimura
“Sequential M&A Achieving Sustainable Profitable Growth”
Masahiko Chino / Kenichi Takashima / Hikaru Okada
“Practical Considerations for Cross-Border M&A”
Hajime Tanahashi / Takayuki Kihira / Hideaki Umetsu
“Cross-Border M&A – Laws, Regulations and Practical Considerations”
Kotaro Inoue / Saori Nara / Takashi Yamasaki
“Are Japanese Firms Really Not Good at Corss-Border Acquisitions?: An Empirical Study”
Special Interview
Guest :Hiroshi Kimura / Noriyuki Inoue
Interviewed by Nobuo Sayama
●Business Cases
  Yuta Okamura / Kentaro Nobeoka
  “KURARAY CO., LTD.
  Koichi Sakurai / Yaichi Aoshima
  “FeliCa Networks, Inc.”
●Critical Eyes: Digitalization and Business Custom in the Japanese Publishing Industry.
 Takahiro Endo
●Innovation  in Japanese Management Research(1)
 Susumu Ogawa
●Introduction to Business Economics(4)
 Noriyuki Yanagawa
●From My Bookshelf 
 Mikiharu Noma
 Fumie Ando
●Management Forum
 Hiroo Unoura
 Interviewed by Seiichiro Yonekura / Tomonori Ito
●Porter Prize 2012
  Emi Osono / Seiko Yamazaki

Research Workshop on Innovation Process2013.3.18

Research Workshop on Innovation Process


Day: March 18th 2013, Time: 9:30 to 18:30
Venue: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 1 Organizational Choice for Innovation (9:30 to 10:20 )
Chair: Hiroyuki Chuma, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
(40 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A):
“Differentiation, Interface Technology, and the Economies of Scope as the Determinants of Product Outsourcing,” Hideo Owan, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

Coffee

Session 2 Knowledge Discovery Process in Science (10:40 to 12:40)
Chair: Hideo Owan, University of Tokyo
(25 minutes for presentations and 5 minutes quick question for each presentation and 30 minutes comments and discussions at the end of the session)

10:40 to 11:10 “Commercializing Academic Science in a Changing Policy Environment: A Natural Experiment,” John Walsh, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:10 to 11:40 “Contributions of Young Scholars in Team-based Scientific Research,” Masatsura Igami, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP)
11:40 to 12: 10 “International Collaborations in Science, Why and How: Evidence from Scientists’ Survey in the US and Japan,” Sadao Nagaoka, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
12:10 to 12:40 Comments and Discussions (30 minutes)
Comments Tomohiro Ijichi, Seijo University

12:40 to 13:10 Lunch

Session 3 Spillovers and Collaborations in Research: Evidence from NEDO Consortium (13:30 to 15:40)
Chair: Yosuke Okada, School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University

13:30 to 14:00 “Commercialization Performance and Spillover Effects of the Government-funded R&D,” Yaichi Aoshima, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University and Kazunari Matsushima, the University of Tokushima
14:00 to 14:30 “Organizational Structure of NEDO Consortium and Its Performance,” Junichi Nishimura, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
14:30 to 15:00 “Assessing Spillovers and Strategic Complementarities from NEDO Projects,” Naotoshi Tsukada, RIETI

15:00 to 15: 40 Comments and discussions (40 minutes)
Comments Akira Yamazaki, Chiba Technology University

Coffee

Session 4 Industry and University Collaborations: Evidence from the Research Projects Generating Co-inventions (16:00 to 18:30)
Chair: Tomohiro Ijichi, Seijo University
16:00 to 16:30 “Sources of Industry and University Collaborations: Seeds vs. Needs,” Sadao Nagaoka, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
16:30 to 17:00 “Research Process in Industry and University Collaborations,”
Junichi Nishimura, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
17:00 to 17:30 “Research Funding,”
Shinichi Akaike, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
17:30 to 18:00 “Research Outcome and Impact of Industry and University Collaborations,” Mitsuaki Hosono, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP)

18:00 to 18:30 (30 minutes)
Comments & Responses John Walsh, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Symposium of university-industry-government collaborative research on innovation process2013.3.15

Symposium of university-industry-government collaborative research on innovation process


Day:    March 15th, 2013 
Time:   9:20 to 18:30
Venue: Conference M+ “Success”, the first floor of Mitsubishi Building

Organizer: Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
Joint hosting: National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA), Japan Bioindustry Association (JBA)
Sponsorship: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)


This symposium aims at discussing the management and policy design to enhance the innovation capability in Japan, based on the findings from the program of University-industry-government collaborative research on innovation process, especially focusing on the semiconductor and bio/pharmaceutical industries. 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), and from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST): Science of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy.


Program

9:20 Opening remarks Kentaro Nobeoka (Director, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)

Session 1: Rapid Globalization of R&D System in Semiconductor Iindustry and Innovations

Chair: Masaomi Kameyama (Researcher,  Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University / Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan)

9:30 to 10:20 Keynote speech (1): “The Increasing Role of Globalized R&D Consortia in the Semiconductor Industry: The Role of International Sematech”

Dr. Jammy, Raj (Vice President of Materials and Emerging Technologies, International Sematech)
10:30 to 11:10 “The Changing Potentiality of Japanese Semiconductor R&D System: Social Network Analysis of High-h/Metal Gate R&D Activities”
Hiroyuki Chuma (Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
11:10 to 11:40 Comments and discussions: Tsunetoshi Arikado (Fellow, Tokyo Electron Limited)
11:40 to 12:00 Coffee break

Session 2: Globalizing Scientists

Chair: Reiko Aoki (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University / Council for Science and Technology Policy

12:00 to 12:50 Keynote speech (2): “Mobile Scientists and International Network: Insights from GloScience Project “ 
Giuseppe Scellato (Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Torino)

12:50 to 13:10 Comments and discussions: Masatsura Igami (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, NISTEP)

Session 3: Findings from Breakthrough / Innovative Drugs from Japan and Science Sources of Bio Startups

Chair: Sadao Nagaoka (Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)

14:00 to 15:00 Keynote speech (3): “How Actemra was Invented and Developed?: the First Antibody Drug from Japan”

Yoshiyuki Ohsugi (Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)

15:00 to 16:30 “Sources of Breakthrough/Innovative Drugs from Japan: Initial Fndings from 10 Case Studies “

Chair: Shinichi Akaike (Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
1) “Features of Research and Development of Breakthrough/Innovative Drugs”
Akira Nagumo (Office of Pharmaceutical Industry Research)
Koichi Genda (Office of Pharmaceutical Industry Research)
2) “Science Sources of Breakthrough/Innovative Drugs”
Sadao Nagaoka (Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
3) “Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Competition of Breakthrough/Innovative Drugs”
Hideo Kawabe (Japan Bioindustry Association)

16:30 to 17:10 Comments and discussions: Kenta Nakamura (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University)

17:10 to 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 to 18:10 “Scientific Sources of Japanese Bio Startups”

Chair: Tomohiro Ijichi (Professor, Faculty on Innovation Studies, Seijo University)
Yuji Honjo (Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University)
18:10 to 18:30 Comments and Discussions: Ikkei Matsuda (Founder, Science and Research for Reconstruction, LLC)

Forum2013.03.13

Innovation Forum 2013.03.13  Professor Giuseppe Scellato



Topic:
“Mover’s Advantage and US attractiveness for young scholars”” (based on NBER WP 18577)

Speaker:
Assistant Professor  Giuseppe Scellato  (Politecnico di Torino)

Date:
March 13 (Wednesday) 2013
11:45 am to 1:15 pm

Place:
 Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building
(A lunch box can be brought in. There will be a welcome dinner in the evening)

Organizer:
Sadao Nagaoka

Forum2013.03.06

Innovation Forum 2013.03.06  Professor Keun Lee

Topic:
“Knowledge, Path-creation and economic catch-up: Schumpeterian Recipe to Escape the middle income trap.” (based on a forthcoming book from Cambridge University)

Speaker:
Professor Keun Lee (Seoul National University) , Visiting Professor of the IIR

Date:
March 6 (Wednesday) 2013
10:30 am to 12 noon     16:30 pm to 18:00 
(Start time has benn changed)

Place:
 Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building

Organizer:
Sadao Nagaoka

Forum2013.1.29 Cornelia Storz 

Innovation Forum 2013.1.29 Professor, Cornelia Storz

Topic:
“Which labor market design is better for Innovation?: The case of game software industry”

Speaker:
Cornelia Storz
(Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

Date:
January 29th (Tuesday)  2013
from 12:15  ~13:30

Place:
 Conference room of the second floor of the IIR building

Organizer:
Seiichiro Yonekura

(symposium)APROS-15 Conference 2013.2.14-17

APROS-15 Conference

APROS-15 Conference
“Re-Covering Organizations”
We are pleased to announce that Hitotsubashi University hosts the APROS-15 Conference on February 14-17, 2013.  APROS was created in Australia in 1982 and currently is hosted by CMOS (the Centre for Management and Organization Studies) in the Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney. APROS has been developing a multidisciplinary network of Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies, being associated with EGOS (the European Group for Organization Studies).  The upcoming APROS-15 conference is held in Japan after 20-year absence and we welcome researchers interested in Organization Studies.
APROS-15 Organizing Team
Local
Tsuyoshi Numagami (Conference Chair), Hitotsubashi University
Toshihiko Kato, Hitotsubashi University
Masaru Karube, Hitotsubashi University
Masatoshi Fujiwara, Kyoto Sangyo University
APROS
Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney (APROS chairman)
Stephen E. Little, Open University, U.K.
Conference dates: February 14 (Thursday) to 17 (Sunday), 2013
Venue: Kunitachi Campus of Hitotsubashi University
APROS Website: http://www.apros.org
The conference will be held in English
Conference Program
Day 1: February 14 (Thu), 2013
  16:00  Welcome Drink at Sano Shoin Hall
           – Sano Shoin Hall is located south next to the Kunitachi Campus and 15mins walk from JR Kunitachi Station.
           -Access http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~coe-res/paper_doc/sano.pdf
Day 2: February 15 (Fri), 2013
  10:30  Opening Speech on the Kunitachi Campus
           Professor Tsuyoshi Numagami, Hitotsubashi University
  11:00  Sessions begin
Day 3: February 16 (Sat), 2013
   9:30  Sessions begin
  16:00  Keynote
  18:00  Social Gathering at the Palace Hotel Tachikawa
           -Access  http://www.palace-t.co.jp/english/access/index.html
Day 4: February 17 (Sun), 2013
   9:30  Sessions begin
  11:00  Keynote
           Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney
           Professor Christina Ahmadjian, Hitotsubashi University
  13:00  Sessions resume
  16:00  Conference Ends
Registration is now open and the on-line registration system can be accessed from the Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies web site at www.apros.org

Receive the 9th Japanese e-Learning Awards for international contribution ,2012

The e-education project in Institute of Innovation Research, hitotsubashi University receives the 9th Japanese e-Learning Awards for international contribution in 2012 by e-learning awards forum committee and Fuji Sankei Bbusiness i.

Professor AOSHIMA and KARUBE Received the 55th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

Professor Yaichi Aoshima and Associate Professor Masaru Karube of the Institute of Innovation Research have received the 55th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science for their book. Every year the prize is awarded to outstanding books that have been published in the past year in the fields of economics, management and accounting.

Organization:
Nikkei Inc. and the Japan Center for Economic Research

Award:
The 55th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

Date:
November 2012

Award Winner:
Professor Akira TAKEISHI, Yaichi AOSHIMA and Masaru KARUBE

Book Title:
Reasons for Innovation: Creating Legitimacy for Resource Mobilization
(Published by Yuhikaku)
http://www.yuhikaku.co.jp/books/detail/9784641163928    (In Japanese)

 

Director’s Message

Director’s Message:



It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our recently updated website. The Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research was created in 1997 as the first organization in Japan to research innovation from the viewpoint of the social sciences. Since then, the expectations placed on us have grown larger with each passing year, and today we are keenly aware of the importance of our responsibilities.
Contemporary society demands innovation. Financial problems related to corporate management and industrial policy, challenges such as social issues that are rocking the foundations of people’s lives, and environmental problems that could radically affect the very continuation of the earth as we know it, are all problems that will only grow dramatically worse if we continue to do things as we have in years past. Innovation is the process of not remaining content with existing conditions, but rather assimilating new approaches, techniques and ideas to create even greater values society will find useful. Society must produce innovations not only in technologies and products, but in the social mechanisms that underpin the economy and markets as well.
One defining aspect of individuals and organizations is a dislike of change. Overcoming this characteristic enables us to begin to discover significant new value. Innovation therefore requires first and foremost “mechanisms” to create the waves of change.
At the same time, it calls for creating new value that goes beyond what we have seen in the past. A creative “venue” can play a major role in this regard. By studying the mechanisms that create such waves of change, and the best practices of such creative venues, the Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research is helping to invigorate innovation around the world.
To achieve such a major contribution we not only are conducting superior research, but also working to forge mechanisms aimed at establishing a hub of global innovation research in Japan. Above all else, our objective is to play a leading role in the creation of waves of change and creative venues within an open environment. With that goal in mind, our hope is to be able to work in collaboration with many of you who visit our website. We will be pleased if you think to access the institute’s website first whenever you have such an opportunity.
 
Director, Institute of Innovation Research  Nobeoka, Kentaro