Japanese business school rankings: Rivalry or a case of apples and oranges? Conference Paper: submitted by Padrón-Hernández, Ivar

Annual Conference on Global Higher Education at Lakeland University Japan （2021/06/05）

There are many claims to the "top business school in Japan" moniker. This is confusing for prospective students when choosing where to invest an important part of their education. In this presentation, I reveal how this may be explained by a competing sets of quality assessment metrics of what entails a good business school. I also pro…

Innovation Processes in Public Research Institutes: AIST, Fraunhofer and ITRI Case Studies

Kang, Byeongwoo
『Science, Technology and Society』 Vol. 26 No. 3 pp. 433-458 （2021/05/25）

The design of national innovation systems has attracted attention from scholars and policymakers. Firms, universities and government organisations (including public research institutes) are defined as the three major players of the national innovation system and interactions between the players are considered the key of the national in…

Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement

Higham, Kyle:Gaétan de Rassenfosse:Adam B. Jaffe
『Research Policy』 Vol. 50 Issue 4 （2021/05/01）

The quality of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share this heterogeneous quality distribution. A pertinent question then arises: How should we define and …

National Origin Diversity and Innovation Performance: The Case of Japan

Kang, Byeongwoo: Kaoru Nabeshima
『Scientometrics』 Vol. 126 No. 6 pp. 5333-5351 （2021/04/26）

The debate on whether a team’s diversity influences innovation outcomes has gained attention in literature on innovation. Our study focuses on national origin among vari…

Management Practices in Japan: Survey Evidence from Six Industries in JP MOPS

Kambayashi, Ryo: Atsushi Ohyama: Nobuko Hori
No. 57 New ESRI Working Paper Series （2021/04/01）

On the Economy of Machine and Intelligence: Differences and Analytics of Innovation

Kimura, Megumi
WP#21-01 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2021/01/06）

Detecting images of innovation expressed in the past, and analysing their variation and mutation, this paper tackled with cold cases of our learnings. Thanks to the deve…

Life of Designs: The Perfection of Co-Adaptation

Kimura, Megumi
WP#20-19 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2020/12/25）

Using open sources published in the past, and tracing learning histories of the world, this paper discovered “the third causes” of learnings. Actions and works of scient…

Giants and Angels: Innovation on the Lines

Kimura, Megumi
WP#20-18 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2020/12/25）

This paper organises relationships between giants and angels in innovation, or historical relationships between science and economy into a linear narrative form, clarify…

Creative Turn: Streaming Innovation

Kimura, Megumi
WP#20-17 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2020/12/25）

This paper presents essence and principles of economy and society, or secrets and keys for innovation in the age of machines and intelligence. The focus of this paper is…

Video: Beyond the New Atlantis: How can we promote Public Engagement in Japan?

ENGAGE Festival 2020: Moving Engagement Online, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement （2020/11/30）

This video is a record of a challenge for research-based policy proposal in Innovation Management and Policy Program, IMPP. Every summer, SciREX holds a summer camp wher…

Do sourcing networks make firms global? Microlevel evidence from firm-to-firm transaction networks

Itoh, Ryo: Kentaro Nakajima
『The Japanese Economic Review』 Vol. 72 Issue 1 pp. 65-96 （2020/11/16）

This study investigates how the structure of a domestic firm-to-firm transaction network influences the foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions of embedded firms in th…

Local Industry Influence on Commercialization of University Research by University Startups

Kang, Byeongwoo : Kazuyuki Motohashi
20-E-086 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2020/11/01）

A Validation Study of Knowledge Combinatorial Novelty

Matumoto, Kuniko : Sotaro Shibayama : Byeongwoo Kang : Masatsura Igami
No. 190 NISTEP Discussion Paper （2020/11/01）

Global Public Perceptions of Genomic Data Sharing: What Shapes the Willingness to Donate DNA and Health Data?

Middleton, Anna : Richard Milne: Mohamed A. Almarri: Shamim Anwer: Jerome Atutornu: Elena E. Baranova: Paul Bevan: Maria Cerezo: Yali Cong: Christine Critchley: Josepine Fernow: Peter Goodhand: Qurratulain Hasan: Aiko Hibino: Gry Houeland: Heidi C. Howard: S. Zakir Hussain: Charlotta Ingvoldstad Malmgren: Vera L. Izhevskaya: Aleksandra Jędrzejak: Cao Jinhong: Megumi Kimura: Erika Kleiderman: Brandi Leach: Keying Liu: Deborah Mascalzoni: Álvaro Mendes: Jusaku Minari: Nan Wang: Dianne Nicol: Emilia Niemiec: Christine Patch: Jack Pollard: Barbara Prainsack: Marie Rivière: Lauren Robarts: Jonathan Roberts: Virginia Romano: Haytham A. Sheerah: James Smith: Alexandra Soulier: Claire Steed: Vigdís Stefànsdóttir: Cornelia Tandre: Adrian Thorogood: Torsten H. Voigt: Anne V. West: Go Yoshizawa: Katherine I. Morley
『The American Journal of Human Genetics』 VOLUME 107 ISSUE 4 pp. 743-752 （2020/10/01）

Analyzing genomic data across populations is central to understanding the role of genetic factors in health and disease. Successful data sharing relies on public support…

Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement

Higham, Kyle W.: Gaétan de Rassenfosse: Adam B. Jaffe
No. 27598 NBER Working Paper （2020/09/29）

The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share this heterogeneous quality distribution. A pertinent question then arises: How should we define an…

Early career training and development of academic independence: a case of life sciences in Japan

Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Tohru : Sotaro Shibayama
『Studies in Higher Education.』 doi:10.1080/03075079.2020.1817889 （2020/09/11）

Academic training is the initial step for junior scientists to learn to develop into independent scientists. This study investigates how supervisors decide to employ dif…

National Origin Diversity and Innovation Performance

Kang, Byeongwoo : Kaoru Nabeshima
2020-E-2 WIAPS Discussion Paper Series （2020/09/01）

Institutionally derived strategic influence of MNC subsidiaries, Conference Paper: submitted by Padrón-Hernández, Ivar

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) （2020/08/07）

What role do host country institutions play for the strategic influence of subsidiaries in mul-tinational enterprises (MNEs)? Through an inductive study of ten headquarters-subsidiary dyads across three MNEs, this paper identifies enablers of subsidiary influence in proposed strategies from headquarters, i.e., headquarter strategic ini…

Impact of Academic Patenting on Scientific Publication Quality at the Project Level

Kang, Byeongwoo
『Asian Journal of Technology Innovation』 Vol. 29 Issue 2 pp. 258-282, refereed （2020/07/31）

This paper investigates the relationship between patenting and publishing at the project level. It uses Japan’s Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research database. Japan’s …

The Screening Function of International Search Authorities under the Patent Cooperation Treaty: Evidence from the Japanese Government’s Policy Change in 1999

Okada, Yoshimi
WP#20-13 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2020/07/31）

This article examines the screening function of the International Search authorities, which produce International Search Reports (ISRs) for international patent applicat…