RIETI International Workshop

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Finance: New growth avenues in developed economies
(Day 2) Professional Development Workshop

Announcement

Can small businesses and start-ups adapt to changing environments, while faced with the current paradigm shift in corporate financing? In this workshop, prominent professors from Japanese universities and foreign business schools present their recent research to discuss new findings on entrepreneurship, innovation, and finance. We provide new insights into new growth avenues for entrepreneurship, innovation, and finance, in addition to their interactions towards the future growth of firms and industries, which could be an important clue to establishing an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Japan.

Information

  • Date and time: 9:30-17:20, September 27, 2019
  • Venue: RIETI conference room #1121 (METI Annex 11th Floor)
  • Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
  • Co-host: Institute of Business Research, Chuo University
  • Co-host: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16H02027 "Research on Startup Finance to Support Regional Revitalization" (Principal Investigator: Hiroshi Uchida, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University)

Program

Session 1 : Financial Systems in Japan

Chair:

Hikaru FUKANUMA (Japan Finance Corporation)

[1] Roles of the public credit guarantee system and regional financial institutions in supporting startup firms: Evidence from a survey by the Aichi Credit Guarantee Corporation

Presenter:

Nobuyoshi YAMORI (RIETI/Kobe University)

Discussant:

Kaoru HOSONO (RIETI/Gakushuin University)

[2] Lease financing in Japanese firms

Presenter:

Takashi HATAKEDA (Kobe University)

Discussant:

Daisuke TSURUTA (Nihon University)

Session 2: Start-up Finance

Chair:

Hidenori TAKAHASHI (Nagoya University)

[3] Do Japanese venture capitalists support the internationalization of their portfolio companies?

Presenter:

Kazuo YAMADA (Ritsumeikan University)

Discussant:

Armin SCHWIENBACHER(Skema Business School)

[4] The impact of entrepreneurial human capital on the choice of initial funding: Evidence from a questionnaire survey in Japan

Presenter:

Charee KWAK (Kyoto University)

Discussant:

Gregory F. UDELL(Kelley School of Business)

Session 3: Role of Venture Capital and Corporations for Innovation

Chair:

Keiko ITO (Chuo University)

[5] Communities of investors and start-up companies: An analysis using bipartite stochastic block model

Presenter:

Daisuke MIYAKAWA (Hitotsubashi University)

Discussant:

Fabio BERTONI (Emlyon Business School)

[6] The role of business group in spawning innovative firms

Presenter:

YoungGak KIM (Senshu University)

Discussant:

Yoichiro NISHIMURA (Chuo University)

Session 4: Role of Universities and Angel Investors for Innovation

Chair:

Shoko HANEDA (Chuo University)

[7] University startup as a source of employment growth? Empirical analysis using economic census data of Japan

Presenter:

Kenta IKEUCHI (RIETI)

Discussant:

Koichiro ONISHI (Waseda University)

[8] Potentiality and actuality: Characteristics and linkage of entrepreneurs and angel investors in Japan

Presenter:

Hiroki NAKAMURA (Chuo University)

Discussant:

Hiroyuki OKAMURO (RIETI/Hitotsubashi University)

Closing Address

Presenter:

Sadao NAGAOKA (RIETI/Tokyo Keizai University)