The Screening Function of International Search Authorities under the Patent Cooperation Treaty: Evidence from the Japanese Government’s Policy Change in 1999

Okada, Yoshimi
WP#20-13 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2020/07/31）

This article examines the screening function of the International Search authorities, which produce International Search Reports (ISRs) for international patent applicat…

Determinants of donations to scientific research: An experimental study of motivations for crowdfunding in Japan

Aminaka, Hirokazu : Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi
WP#20-09 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2020/04/30）

Effects of Local Government Subsidy on Rooftop Solar PV in Japan

The International Conference on Renewable energy Research and Application, ICRERA 2017 （2017/10/06）

Conference Paper: submitted by Asano, Kenji and Yaichi Aoshima

Mobilizing Scarce Resource through Social Networks: Exploring Mechanism that Accelerated the Growth of the Chinese PV Industry

PICMET'16 "Technology Management for Social Innovation" （2016/09/07）

Conference Paper: submitted by Aoshima, Yaichi, Wen Wang and Jinwel Zhu

A creative city planning framework by a private company: Case study of the development of Futako-Tamagawa by Tokyu

Konno, Yukiko : Yuki Itoh
WP#16-10 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/08/19）

While most studies of the creative city focus on the policy of governance or local governance, we study the creative city framework led by a private company. Concretely,…

Global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections: micro evidence from the international equivalents of the drug patents in Japan

Okada, Yoshimi : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#16-07 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/07/13）

We investigate the global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections as acquired by firms, based on a novel global patent database for all significant medical drugs introduced in Japan. It gives us the propensity of filing and grant rate for each country for the granted patents in Japan. Major findings are the following. Both the fili…

A Cost Benefit Analysis of AminoIndex™ Cancer Screening in Japan

Tamura, Masaoki : Akira Imaizumi : Takahiko Muramatsu : Nobuhisa Shimba
WP#15-14 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/08/03）

This article presents a cost benefit analysis of AminoIndexTM Cancer Screening (AICS) in Japan. AICS is a new cancer diagnosis method based on profiles of amino acids. The cost benefit analysis is performed on each type of cancer, each sex, and each age class. The results indicate that AICS is cost-beneficial mainly for 50-75 years old…

Margin Rate Rule: A New Drug Pricing Policy in Japan

Tamura, Masaoki
WP#14-03 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2014/06/18）

This article theoretically evaluates the drug pricing policy in Japan and suggest an alternative more efficient policy. The Japanese current pricing rule “R2 rule” cause…

Allocation of Research Resources and Publication Productivity in Japan: A Growth Accounting Approach

Aoki, Shuhei: Megumi Kimura
WP#13-24 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2014/03/10）

In Japan, as in many developed countries, the government's agencies for science have implemented several reforms to the scientic research system, which has concentrated research resources in the top research universities. However, the growth of research papers has stagnated in Japan during the 2000s. To analyze the reason for this, th…

Next steps for collaboration between policy formation and policy studies

Akaike, Shinichi
『The Journal of Science Policy and Research Management』 Vol.28 No.1 pp. 76-83 （2013/10/01）

The key of ‘Science of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy’ is to connect policy formation and policy studies. Process and knowledge structure of policy formatio…