Kaoru, Nabeshima : Mila Kashcheeva : Byeongwoo Kang
No. 654 IDE Discussion Papers （2017/04/01）
Many countries are interested in strengthening their technological capabilities to achieve high growth rates. Knowledge flow is a key to build technological capabilities…
Inoue, Hiroyasu : Kentaro Nakajima : Yukiko Saito
17-E-034 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2017/03/31）
Malen, Joel: Alfred A. Marcus
『Business & Society』 （2017/03/31）
Technological development plays a critical role in society’s ability to address environmental issues. Building on Teece’s profiting from innovation framework, we articul…
Nishiguchi, Toshihiro
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol. 64 No. 4 pp. 56-67 (in Japanese) （2017/03/23）
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Malen, Joel
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol.64 No.4 8-18 （2017/03/23）
in Japanese (循環型経済のためのイノベーション)
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Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
『Soshiki Kagaku (Organizational Science)』 Vol.50 No.3 pp. 4-15 (in Japanese) （2017/03/20）
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Ohyama, Atsushi
17-E-057 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2017/03/01）
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Malen, Joel
『Energy Policy』 Vol. 102 pp. 7-15 （2017/03/01）
This study examines how political, social and economic factors influence clean energy technology entrepreneurship (CETE). Government policies supporting clean energy technology development and the development of markets for clean energy create opportunities for CETE. However, the extent to which such opportunities lead to the emergence…
Kang, Byeongwoo : Yukihito Sato : Yasushi Ueki
ERIA Discussion Paper 2016-31 Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia （2017/02/28）
Attracting highly skilled workers is a major element in the economic development of many countries, especially developing ones. However, workers generally move from developing countries to developed ones. Historical evidence indicates that Korean and Taiwanese firms scout for highly skilled (retired or soon-to-retire) Japanese workers …
Workshop on Innovation in Digital Industries (organized by IIR) （2017/02/24）
Submitted by Kang, Byeongwoo, Heikki Rannikko and Erno T. Tornikoski
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Okada, Yoshimi : Yusuke Naito : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#17-03 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2017/02/20）
While patent scope defined by patent claims provides crucial information on the contribution of underlying inventions to the state of the art, its existing measures do n…
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International Workshop on Business Research (Organized by Management Innovation Research Center, Hitotsubashi University) （2017/02/10）
Paper submitted by Karube, Masaru
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Malen, Joel : Junichi Yamanoi
WP#16-13 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/12/07）
We examine how stronger environmental regulations influence MNE international expansion decisions by attending to two sources of firm heterogeneity that moderate this effect: possession of pollution reduction capabilities and firm multinationality. Empirical tests on 523 cases of international manufacturing expansion into 49 potential …
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Xu, Hangtian : Kentaro Nakajima
『Resources Policy』 Vol.50 pp. 160-168 （2016/12/01）
In response to high mortality rates and low productivity in coal mining, China began regulating coal mines in the 1990s, reshaping its coal economy. We investigate the relationship between coal mine regulation and economic growth. Using the difference-in-difference approach to compare the pre- and post-regulation periods as well as reg…
Okada, Yoshimi : Yusuke Naito : Sadao Nagaoka
RIETI Discussion Paper 16-E-092 Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) （2016/11/29）
Delineating the patent scope consistently with the contribution of the disclosed invention is one of the most crucial requirements for a patent system to promote innovation effectively. Given the incentive of an applicant to set a scope for the patent as broad as possible, an important task of the Patent Office is to narrow it so that …
The 7th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference （2016/11/18）
Conference Paper: submitted by Dang, Jianwei, Byeongwoo Kang and Ke Ding
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Kawata, Keisuke : Kentaro Nakajima : Yasuhiro Sato
『Regional Science and Urban Economics』 Vol.61 pp. 114-129 （2016/11/01）
We develop a competitive search model involving multiple regions, geographically mobile workers, and moving costs. Equilibrium mobility patterns are analyzed and characterized, and the results indicate that shocks to a particular region, such as a productivity shock, can propagate to other regions through workers' mobility. Moreover, e…
Nabeshima, Kaoru : Byeongwoo Kang : Mila Kashcheeva
『Technology in Society』 Vol.47 pp. 66-100 （2016/11/01）
This paper shows descriptively how the knowledge network in East Asia has been formed. In addition, the correlation between the knowledge network and economic growth is also examined. Evidence is provided to show that plugging into the knowledge network of developed economies could be a key for increasing innovativeness in an economy.
Dang, Jianwei : Byeongwoo Kang : Ke Ding
WP#16-12 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/10/19）
Technical standards in the mobile communications industry have been developed from national to regional and from regional to global. In the current era, global standards…
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Miyagiwa, Kaz: Yunyun (Jiangyun) Wan
『Economics Letters』 Volume 147 October 2016 pp. 5-7 （2016/10/01）
The merger paradox in Cournot oligopoly is revisited in the presence of R&D investment. Two cases are presented in which firms merge profitably without satisfying the 80-percent threshold requirement of Salant et al. (1983).
