• Innovation　イノベーション
• Entrepreneurship アントレプレナーシップ

• ``Numerical Labor Flexibility and Innovation Outcomes of Start-up Firms: A Panel Data Analysis,''  Technovation, Vol. 69, 15-27, January 2018. (with H. Zhou)
• ``Does New Entry Drive Out Incumbents? The Varying Roles of Establishment Size Across Sectors,'' Small Business Economics, Vol 46, 57-78, January 2016. (with K. Ito)
• ``Entrepreneurial Human Capital and the Survival of New Firms in High- and Low-Tech Sectors,'' Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol 25, 925-957, November 2015. (with Y. Honjo)
  
• ``Does Founders' Human Capital Matter for Innovation? Evidence from Japanese Start-ups,'' Journal of Small Business Management, 53, 114-128, January 2015. (with H. Okamuro and Y. Honjo)
• ``R&D Investment of Start-up Firms: Does Founders' Human Capital Matter?" Small Business Economics, 42, 207-220, February 2014. (with Y. Honjo and H. Okamuro)
  
• ``Development of University Life-Science Programs and University-Industry Joint Research in Japan,'' Research Policy, 41, 939-952, June 2012. (with H. Odagiri)

• ``Founders’ human capital and external knowledge sourcing: An absorptive capacity perspective for innovative start-ups,'' requested to revise and resubmit by a journal.
  
• ``Does patenting always help new-firm survival?,'' Discussion Paper Series No. 159, School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University, May 2017. (with K. Onishi and Y. Honjo)
  
• ``Do Initial Financial Conditions Determine the Fate of Start-up Firms?'' Discussion Paper Series No.139, School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University, January 2016.　(with Y. Honjo) [submitted to a journal]
  

- See the page of "Research" and also Google scholar citation and Repec for a list of publications and working papers.

• I have joined the editorial board at Management Review Quarterly. Management Review Quarterly誌の編集委員会に加わりました (April 2018)．
• A joint paper with Haibo Zhou entitled ``Numerical Labor Flexibility and Innovation Outcomes of Start-up Firms: A Panel Data Analysis'' has been accepted for publication in Technovation [October 2017]. 共同論文がTechnovation誌にアクセプトされました．
  
• I have joined the editorial team as Editorial Review Board member at Small Business Economics (SBE) [September 2017]. 2017年9月よりSBE誌の編集査読委員会へメンバーとして加入しました．
• I have been appointed as a member of committee on "Improving productivity through innovation" in the Ministry of Finance, Policy Research Institute [September 2017]. 2017年9月より財務省財務総合政策研究所「イノベーションを通じた生産性向上に関する研究会」委員に就任しました．
• I have been appointed as a member of committee on "Industrial Structure and Small Businesses (Committee No. 118)" by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [June 2017].  2017年度より産業構造・中小企業第118委員会委員に就任しました．
• I have joined the editorial team as Associate Editor at Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM) [September 2016]. 2016年9月よりJSBM誌の副編集長に就任しました．

Last updated: April 4, 2018.