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

• ``Do Initial Financial Conditions Determine the Fate of Start-up Firms?'' (with Y. Honjo), accepted for publication in Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
  
• ``Founders’ Human Capital and External Knowledge Sourcing: Exploring the Absorptive Capacity of Start-up Firms,'' accepted for publication in Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
• ``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) 
  

• ``A Comparison of Patents and Trademarks as Indicators of Regional Economic Development: Evidence from Japanese Prefectures,'' (with J. Block, C. Fisch, and K. Ikeuchi), submitted.
  
• ``Growth Paths and Routes to Exit: ‘Shadow of Death’ Effects for New Firms in Japan,'' (with A. Coad), submitted.
  
• ``Does patenting always help new-firm survival?,''  (with K. Onishi and Y. Honjo), submitted.
  

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

• Editorial Board Member, Management Review Quarterly (April 2018 - present)．
• Editorial Review Board Member, Small Business Economics (September 2017 - present)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Small Business Management (September 2016 - present)