The sources of innovation are the creation of new knowledge and its exploitation to solve real-world problems. This program will develop original data on innovation process with a view toward improving our understanding of such processes, including the surveys of inventors in Japan, North America, and Europe, and will conduct analysis from a global perspective so as to contribute to evidence-based policy formation conducive to technology development and innovation. Specifically, the program will analyze a broad range of issues, such as an assessment of intellectual property systems such as patent systems, knowledge transfer and mobility of people across organizations, university-industry cooperation, technical standards for innovation, collaboration in innovation, corporate organization and industrial organization to promote innovation, and international comparison of entrepreneurship.
Program Director
Research on Innovation Process and its Institutional Infrastructure Based on Micro Data
April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
NAGAOKA Sadao
Standard Policy for Innovation
August 22, 2011 - July 31, 2013
Project Leader
AOKI Reiko
Empirical Studies on the International Comparison of Open Innovation
July 4, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
International Comparative Analysis of Factors Affecting Start-up Activities
September 13, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
TAKAHASHI Noriyuki
Research on the Interactions Between the Business Strategies of Excellent Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and their External Environment
August 23, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
INOUE Tatsuhiko
