Hiroshi Shimizu (professor)

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Hiroshi Shimizu (born May 29, 1973) is a Japanese management scholar, specializing in innovation and entreprenuership research. He is currently a professor at the School of Commerce, Waseda University. [1]

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Career

Shimizu was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1973. [2]

He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University in 1997 and went on to study for a Master's degree in Commerce at Hitotsubashi University, where he completed his studies in 1999. He studied at Northwestern University's School of History during his PhD studies and completed his MA at Northwestern University's History Department in 2002; from 2004 he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he obtained his Ph.D in 2007 (Economic History). [3]

After working as a post-doctoral fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology, he became a full-time lecturer at the Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University in 2008. Associate Professor in 2011 and Professor in 2017 at the same school. Professor, School of Commerce and Management, Waseda University, in 2012. [4]

Awards

He is the recipient of the 59th Nikkei and Economic Book Culture Award in 2016. [5] The award was established by the Nikkei to contribute to the advancement of scholarship and knowledge in the fields of economics and management/accounting, as well as its general dissemination and application.

In 2017 he was awarded the 33rd Takamiya Prize by The Academic Association for Organizational Science in Japan. [6]

In 2021, he received the Schumpeter Prize from the International Schumpeter Society for his book, General Purpose Technology, Spin-Out, and Innovation: Technological Development of Laser Diodes in the United States and Japan [7]

Publications

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References

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  2. ↑ 日経クロストレンド. "清水 洋". 日経クロストレンド (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  3. ↑ "SHIMIZU Hiroshi". KAKEN. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  4. ↑ "SHIMIZU Hiroshi". KAKEN. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  5. ↑ 『日経・経済図書文化賞』 受賞図書一覧 (PDF), November 3, 2022
  6. ↑ "組織学会「高宮賞」" [Takamiya Award from the Society of Histology]. The Academic Association for Organizational Science. 8 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "Schumpeter prize". www.issevec.uni-jena.de. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
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