Overview
This project focuses on institutional innovation activity and globalization from the geographical and network aspects of inter-firm transactions and inter-inventor and institutional collaboration, and its relationship to employment. Specifically, we analyze how domestic transaction networks relate to firms’ FDI decisions and network construction of foreign subsidiaries in a host country and how domestic employment and wages and in the host country are related. As for innovation activity, using our original dataset of historical patent data from the Meiji era, we will examine the reduction of communication costs that has occurred due to the increased prevalence of transport infrastructure and communication tools, and how it affects inventors’ and institutions’ collaboration and their performance from a historical perspective, focusing on the different effects through different times. Further, during COVID, these innovation activities and globalization might have changed structurally, so we analyze them in terms of change in geographical friction.
March 13, 2023 - August 31, 2025
（During the research project period, the research activity period is set from March 13, 2023 to February 28, 2025, and the data usage reporting period is set from March 1, 2025 to August 31, 2025.）
