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About the Author
Kazuyuki Motohashi is a professor in the Resilience Engineering Research Center and the Department of Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Until this year, he had held various positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of the Japanese Government, and served as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University. His research interests cover a broad range of issues in economic and statistical analy- sis of innovation, including economic impacts of information technology, interna- tional comparison of productivity, global infrastructure business strategy, and national innovation systems focusing on science and industry linkages and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation and entrepreneurship policy.
Dr. Motohashi earned a Master of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo, an MBA from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in business and commerce from Keio University. For further details, please see: http://www.mo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
