1999.4－2001.3　Research
B.A in Economics, Rikkyo University, M.A. in International Business, Thunderbird School of Global Management, MBA Keio Business School, Keio University Ph.D. Organizational Behavior, Keio Business School, Keio University

・Women Managers: How can you raise them? Seisansei shuppan 2016 ・Networking- Keio University Press 2010 ・Asako Takada, “Transforming the Showa Mindset to Festina Lente to Survive an Aging Society” Japan Spot Light May/June 2017 Issue, pp42-44, 2017 ・Asako Takada, Eri Yokota “The Formation of Networks for Career Continuation: Examination of a Survey of Female Physicians” International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology Vol.3, (6), pp793-798, 2012. ・Asako Takada, Eri Yokota, “Organizational Culture and Emergency Response Actions: How Japanese Companies Behave?” Contemporary Management Research Vol.3（4）pp.313-330, 2007. 

Dr. Pechter earned his BS magna cum laude and MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, Irvine in 1987 and 1988, and his PhD in Innovation Management & Policy at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science & Technology in 2001. He served on the University of Tokyo faculty for ten years, followed by 15 years in the private sector, primarily as a producer and business development consultant active in such creative industries as media, entertainment, fashion and high tech. He has also worked for various task forces of both the governments of the US and Japan, as well as for the national laboratory system of the government of Denmark.

“Understanding and Communicating Needs and Solutions: A Case of Comparative Policy Analysis,” Social Science Japan, 2000.
“Current Innovation Reform in the Light of Past Dialogue: Conceptions of Convergence as Perspectives for Comparative Innovation System Assessment,” Comparing Economic Institutions, Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Siena, Italy, 2001.
“Dis-organizing Structure as a Policy Reform Objective: Public-Private Networks in the Japanese Innovation System,” Managing Technology for the New Economy, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Engineering Management Society International Engineering Management Conference, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 2002.
“Pitch” & “Presentation”, Content Producers Development Curriculum, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, 2005.
Co-producer, Pancakes, feature film, 2014.
Co-producer, Free Foot Jam, short film, 2016.
Co-producer, Shinpan, feature film, 2017. 

Seiichiro Yonekura is Professor of Graduate School of Innovation Management, HOSEI University (2017~) and Professor Emeritus of Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (1982~), and Academic Advisor of Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Pretoria in Republic of South Africa (2012~). He received his B.A.s (in both Social Studies and Economics) and M.A. (Social Studies) from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and Ph.D from Harvard University in the United States. He is also Dean of Nippon Genki Juku, a lifetime education program at Academyhills in Roppongi and Chief Editor of Hitotsubashi Business Review, one of the most prestigious business magazines in Japan.

His current research interests are on a historical development of innovation and entrepreneurship in a global business context and a social business and social entrepreneurship in the BOP (base of pyramid) market. He is a prolific author of numerous titles on a wide range of subjects such as The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry 1880-1990: Continuity and Discontinuity (Macmillan, 1994), Structure of Business Revolution (Iwanami, 1999), Emergent Destruction : Innovation for Good Future (Mishima-sha, 2011), Management of Open Innovation (Yuhikaku, 2015), The Power of Parallel Career: A Future Work Style (Kodansha, 2015), The Creative Response: the Entrepreneurial History of Modern Japan (Toyo Keizai, 2017). He loves golf and rock’n roll.

Apr, 2004 – Mar, 2016 Assistant Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Apr, 2016 – Mar, 2022 Professor,Toyohashi University of Technology
Apr, 2022 – Present Professor, HOSEI University

• Kazuko Sakamoto, “How many Humanity Elements for Design of Character?” The Third International Conference on Design Creativity 3rd Proceeding, 2015
• Kazuko Sakamoto, “Design Elements: Examining Product Design Attribute that Make Sweets Appear more Delicious to Foreign Patrons”, International Conference on Marketing and Management Sciences Proceeding,2014,ｐ10
• Kazuko Sakamoto, Yoji Kitani, Keiichiro Kawarabayashi, “Cultural Influence to the Color Preference According to Product Category”,  Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research (KEER) Proceeding, 2014,D－159
• Kazuko Sakamoto, “Difference in the Color Preference by a Geographical Factor”, International Journal of Social, Education, Economics and Management Engineering, Vol.7, No.11, 2013, pp.1588-1592
• Kazuko Sakamoto, Keiichiro Kawayabayashi, “Local-Brands Strategy Approached with Design”, International Conference on Marketing Studies, 2013, ID-54