Division of Engineering & Technology Management

Prof Chihiro Watanabe
Visiting Professor

Email: etmwc@nus.edu.sg
Phone: (65) 6516 4195
Fax: (65) 6776 0755

Education

1968 B.E. Urban Planning, Tokyo University
1992 Ph. D. Arts and Science, Tokyo University

Specialization

Technology innovation management, Institutional innovation

Techno-economics, Technology innovation, Technology policy

Main Employment

1968-1994
Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI), Government of Japan
1993-1994
Deputy Director-General of Technology Development, Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
1992-1993
Senior Director Coordinating Technology Development, Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
1990-1992
Director-General of Industrial Technology Development, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
Professor, Graduate School of Policy Science, Saitama University
1988-1990
Director of Research and Policy, Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
1987-1988
Chief Representative, New Energy Development Organization (NEDO) Sydney Office
1984-1987
Director, R&D Program on Basic Technologies for Future Industries
1994 - present
Senior Advisor to the Director on Technology, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
1995 - 2009
Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2005-2009
Director, Research Center for the Science of Institutional Management of Technology
2006-2007
Vice-Dean of the Graduate School of Decision Science & Technology
1997-2009
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Faculty of Engineering
2009-present
Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Professor, Tokyo Seitoku University, Department of Industrial Management

Grants and Awards

IAMOT (International Association of Management of Technology)　Research Award (2008)

JSSPRM (Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management) Most Significant Contributor Award (2008)

Minister of Education, Science & Technology Award, Science & Technology Prize (2008)

JEPOC (Japan Electric Power Civil Engineering Association) Significant Contribution Award (2007)

JAMR (Journal of Advances in Management Research) Best Paper Award 2005 (2006)

IAMOT (International Association of Management of Technology) Top 50 Excellent Organization Award (2005)

IAMOT (International Association of Management of Technology) Research Award (2003)

World Automation Congress Best Paper Award (2002)

UN GEF (United Nation Global Environmental Facility) Significant Contribution Award (1998)

JHEP (Journal of Hydro Electric Power) Best Paper Award (1973)

Recent Publications

1	K. Moriyama and C. Watanabe, “New Cluster of Industrial Sectors toward a Service-oriented Economy: R&D Profitability Criteria Substitutes for Labor Productivity Criteria.” Journal of Services Research (2009) in print.
2	C. Watanabe, J.H. Shin and J. Heikkinen, “Transition Dynamism in Web 2.0: Emerging Dynamism of New Functionality Impacting on a Service-oriented Economy,” Journal of Services Research (2009) in print.
3	N. Ouchi and C. Watanabe, “The Impact of Diversifying Technologies in Related Areas on Firm’s Profitability: The Case of Canon’s Copying Machines and Printers,” International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (2009) in print.
4	W. Zhao, C. Watanabe and C. Griffy-Brown, “An Exploration of Competitive Advantage in an Industry Cluster with in Local Institutional Systems: The Case of Dalian Software Park in China,” Technology in Society (2009) in print.
5	X. Yao, C. Watanabe and Y. Li, “Institutional Structure of Sustainable Development in BRICs: Focusing on ICT Utilization,” Technology in Society 31 No. 1 (2009) in print.
6	G. Yoshikawa and C. Watanabe, “An Empirical Analysis of Firm Revitalization Innovation by Sectors and Revitalization Institutions,” Journal of Services Research (2009) in print.
7	C. Watanabe, K. Moriyama and J. Shin, “Functionality Development Dynamism in a Diffusion Trajectory: A Case of Japan’s Mobile Phones Development,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 75 (2009) in print.
8	C. Watanabe, S. Lei and N. Ouchi, “Fusing Indigenous Technology Development and Market Learning for Higher Functionality Development: An Empirical Analysis of the Growth Trajectory of Canon Printers,” Technovation 29, No. 2 (2009) 265-283.
9	M. Nakagawa, C. Watanabe and C. Griffy-Brown, “Changes in the Technology Spillover Structure due to Economic Paradigm Shifts: A Driver of the Economic Revival in Japan’s Material Industry beyond the Year 2000,” Technovation 29, No. 1 (2009) 5-22.
10	M. Mitsuda and C. Watanabe, “The Role of the Venture Leader Initiative in IPO Accomplishment: The Impact of Leader Characteristics on IPO Performance,” Journal of Services Research 8, No. 2 (2008) 141-174.
11	M. Mitsuda and C. Watanabe, “Accerelated Interaction between Firms and Markets at ICT-based Venture Business: The Case of Mobile Phone Business in Japan,” Journal of Services Research 8, No. 2 (2008) 101-119
12	C. Watanabe and S. Lei, “The Role of Techno-countervailing Power in Inducing the Development and Dissemination of New Functionality: An Analysis of Canon Printers and Japan's Personal Computers,” International Journal of Technology Management 44, Nos. 1/2 (2008) 205-233.
13	H. Horio and C. Watanabe, “The Paradox of a Service-oriented Economy for Sustainability: Co-evolution between Innovation and Resources Effectuation by a Global Complement,” Journal of Services Research 8, No. 1 (2008) 155-175.
14	S. Tokumasu and C. Watanabe，"Institutional Structure Leading to the Similarity and Disparity in Innovation Inducement in EU 15 Countries," Journal of Services Research 8, No. 1 (2008) 5-42.
15	W. Zhao and C. Watanabe, “A Comparison of Institutional Systems Affecting Software Advancement in China and India - The Role of Outsourcing from Japan and the United States,” Technology in Society 30 (2008) 429-436.
16	G. Yoshikawa and C. Watanabe, “Structural Source Enabling Firm Revitalization Innovation by Sectors - An Empirical Analysis of Japanese 31 Industrial Sectors,” Technovation 28, No. 1 (2008) 37-51.
17	K. Fukuda and C. Watanabe, “Japanese and U.S. Perspectives on the National Innovation Ecosystem,” Technology in Society 30, No. 1 (2008) 49-63
18	C. Watanabe, “Institutional MOT: Co-evolutionary Dynamism of Innovation and Institution,” in M. Horlesberger, M. El-Nawawi and T. Khalil eds., Challenges in the Management of New Technologies (World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, 2007) 355-366
19	C. Chen and C. Watanabe, “Competitiveness through Co-evolution between Innovation and Institutional Systems: New Dimensions of Competitiveness in a Service-oriented Economy,” Journal of Services Research 7, No. 2 (2007) 27-55.
20	R. Kondo, C. Watanabe and K. Moriyama, “A Resonant Development Trajectory for IT Development: Lessons from Japan's i-mode,” International Journal of Advances in Management Research 4, No. 2 (2007) 7-27
21	B.K. Ane, A.M. Tarasyev and C. Watanabe, “Impact of Technology Assimilation on Investment Policy: Dynamic Optimization and Econometric Identification,” Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 134, No. 3 (2007) 321-338
22	B.K. Ane, A.M. Tarasyev and C. Watanabe, “Construction of a Nonlinear Stabilizer for Trajectories of Economic Growth,” Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 134, No. 3 (2007) 303-320
23	R. Kato, C. Watanabe and Y. Tou, “Intra-firm Technology Spillovers Leveraging Co-evolution between Digital Technologies and their Application to Global Warming Mitigation: Towards Eco-friendly Business in a Service-oriented Economy,” Journal of Services Research 7, No. 1 (2007) 193-213.
24	C. Chen, C. Watanabe and C. Griffy-Brown, “The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan,” Technology in Society 29, No. 1 (2007) 1-22.
25	S. Yamauchi, S. Morisaki, C. Watanabe and Y. Tou, “A Resilience Structure as a Survival Strategy for Japan's Chemical Industry amidst Megacompetition: Suggestion to Management Research,” Journal of Advances in Management Research 4, No. 1 (2007) 29-48
26	C. Watanabe, H. Takahashi, Y. Tou and K.L. Shum, “Inter-fields Technology Spillovers Leveraging Co-evolution between Core Technologies and their Application to New Fields: Service-oriented Manufacturing toward a Ubiquitous Society,” Journal of Services Research 6, No. 2 (2006) 7-24.
27	A. Ohmura and C. Watanabe, “Cross-products Technology Spillover in Inducing a Self-propagating Dynamism for the Shift to a Service-oriented Economy: Lessons from High-performance Fine Ceramics,” Journal of Services Research 6, No. 2 (2006) 145-179.
28	C. Watanabe and W. Zhao, “Co-evolutionary Dynamism of Innovation and Institution,” in N. Yoda, R. Pariser and M.C. Chon eds., Chemical Business and Economics (The Chemical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 2006) 106-121.
29	C. Chen and C. Watanabe, “Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73, No. 6 (2006) 731-759.
30	T. Saiki, Y. Akano, C. Watanabe and Y. Tou, “A New Dimension of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Wider Scope of Patent Claims Can Lead to New Functionality Development,” Technovation 26, No. 7 (2006) 796-806
31	M. Hobo, C. Watanabe and C. Chen, “Double Spiral Trajectory between Retail, Manufacturing and Customers Leads a Way to Service-oriented Manufacturing,” Technovation 26, No. 7 (2006) 873-890
32	C. Watanabe and K. Fukuda, “National Innovation Ecosystem: The Similarity and Disparity of Japan-US Technology Policy Systems toward a Service-oriented Economy,” Journal of Services Research 6, No. 1 (2006) 159-186
33	G. Yoshikawa and C. Watanabe, “An Empirical Analysis of Firm Revitalization Innovation: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade toward a Service-oriented Economy,” Journal of Services Research 6, No. 1 (2006) 9-29
34	C. Watanabe, J.Y. Hur and S. Lei, “Converging Trend of Innovation Efforts in High Technology Firms under Paradigm Shift: A Case of Japan's Electrical Machinery,” OMEGA 34, No. 2 (2006) 178-188.
35	A. Nagamatsu, C. Watanabe and K.L. Shum, “Diffusion Trajectory of Self-propagating Innovations Interacting with Institutions - Incorporation of Multi-factor Learning Function to Model PV Diffusion in Japan,” Energy Policy 34, No. 4 (2006) 411-421
36	A. Ohmura and C. Watanabe, “Inside the Black Box of Cross-functional Spillover: A Lesson from the Functionality Development of Fine Ceramics,” Journal of Advances in Management Research 2, No. 2 (2005) 7-23
37	K. Tanabe and C. Watanabe, “Sources of Small and Medium Enterprises Excellent Business Performance in a Service-oriented Economy,” Journal of Services Research 5, No. 1 (2005) 5-20.
38	B.K. Ane and C. Watanabe, “Structural Change in Techno-production of Japan's Automobile Industry,” Journal of Advances in Management Research 2, No. 1 (2005) 21-31
39	C. Watanabe, J.Y. Hur and K. Matsumoto, “Technological Diversification and Firm’s Techno-economic Structure: An Assessment of Cannon’s Sustainable Growth Trajectory,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 72, No. 1 (2005) 11-27
40	C. Watanabe and J.Y. Hur , “Resonant R&D Structure for Effective Technology Development amidst Megacompetition: An Empirical Analysis of Smart Cooperative R&D Structure in Japan's Transport Machinery Industry,” Technovation 24, No. 11 (2004) 955-969.

Books

C. Watanabe, “Managing Innovation in Japan: The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering How Companies Develop Technology” (Springer, New York, 2008) in print.

M.V. Geenhuizen and C. Watanabe, “Technological Innovation Across Nations: Co-evolutionary Developments” (Springer, New York, 2008) in print.

C. Watanabe, “Techno-Economic Systems” (Sosei-sha Publishers, Tokyo, 2007).

A. Kryazhimskiy and C. Watanabe, “Optimization of Technological Growth” (Gendaitosho, Tokyo, 2004).

C. Watanabe edt., “Numerical Analysis of Technological Innovation” (Nikka-giren Publishers, Tokyo, 2001).

C. Watanabe, K. Miyazaki and M. Katsumoto, “Theory of Techno-Economics” (Nikka-giren Publishers, Tokyo, 1998).

C. Watanabe, I. Santoso and T. Widyanti, “The Inducing Power of Japanese Technological Innovation” (Pinter Publishers, London, 1991).

Courses Taught

Introduction of Economics (Under graduate) 1996-

Techno-Economics (Under graduate) 1995-

Industrial Management (Under graduate) 1995-

Technological Innovation Systems (Post graduate) 1995-

Technology Policy Systems (Post graduate) 1995-

Institutional Management of Technology (Ph. D.) 2004-

Ph. D. Dissertations Supervised (* indicates written in Japanese)

Sustainable Functionality Development in Open Innovation toward a Post-oil Society (2008)

Tripolarization of R&D Profitability Structure in Japan’s High-technology Firms: Co-evolutionary Domestication Leads a Way to Sustainable Functionality Development (2008)

*Paradox of the Service Economy: Econometrics Approach by means of International Input-Output Analysis to Energy and Environmental Constraints (2008)

Co-evolutionary Dynamism in the National Innovation Ecosystem of Japan (2008)

An Empirical Analysis of Innovation in Nonferrous Metal Technology: Change in Technology Spillover Structure in Japan’s Nonferrous Metal Industry (2008)

An Empirical Analysis of the Development Trajectory of Chinese Software Industry: Focusing on Outsourcing and Industry Clusters based on Institutional Systems and Innovation (2008)

Adaptive Efficiency of the Government R&D Corresponding to the Co-Evolutionary Dynamism in Japan’s Innovation (2008)

Successful Trajectory of New Venture Development in an Information Society: The Role of the Venture Leader Initiative (2008)

An Elucidation of Canon’s High Profitability Mechanism (2008)

Institutional Sources Governing Sustainable Development in China (2008)

An Empirical Analysis of Co-Evolutionary Dynamism between Institutions and Management of Technology: Japanese Chemical Industry (2008)

*An Analysis of the Adaptability of Japanese Firms to Co-Evolutionary Dynamism between Innovation and Institutions (2007)

Structural Sources Enabling Firm Revitalization Innovation: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade (2007)

Optimal Trajectory of High-technology Development through R&D, Learning and Market Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Canon Printers’ Growth Trajectory (2007)

An Analysis of the Adaptability of Japanese Firms to IT based Service Innovation: Approach from Web 2.0 View (2007)

Institutional Structure Governing the Dissemination Process of Mobile Phone Driven Innovation (2006)

Closed and Open Photo-Voltaic (PV) Development Models: Characteristics and Implications to the Transition to Smart PV-A Japan and US Comparison (2006)

Institutional Structure Leading to the Similarity and Disparity in Innovation Inducement in EU 15 Countries (2006)

Empirical Analysis of the Spillover Dynamism in Inducing High-Performance in Structural Fine Ceramics: A Suggestion to New Functionality Development Initiated Growth Trajectory in an Information Society (2005)

*An Analysis of the Advancement of Functionality Development in PC Development and Diffusion Trajectory in China (2005)

Co-evolutionary Dynamism between Inter-prefectural and Inter-sectoral Technology Spillover: Elucidation of the Inside the Black Box of the Technology Spillover (2005)

Resonance between the Self-Propagating Function of ERP and Its Co-Evolutional Dynamism as a Source of Firm’s Maximum Utilization of the Potential Benefits of IT (2004)

*An Analysis of Self-propagating Dynamism between Market Sensitivity of Technology and R&D Intensity: Comparative Empirical Analysis between Medium and Matured Large Firms in Electrical Machinery Firms (2004)

*An Empirical Study on Trends in New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Activity and their Support System in Japan (2004)

Economic Growth and Structural Discrepancy between Demand and Supply: Interaction between Innovation and Demand Creation (2004)

*An Empirical Analysis of the Adaptability of Industrial Technology Policy to Historical Change in its Environment (2003)

Optimal Trajectory of Agile Product Development Trajectory through Effective Utilization of Spillover Technology: Survival Strategy of Japan’s Automotive Industry amidst Megacompetition (2003)

Transitional Dynamism of Firms’ Innovation Strategy towards Service-oriented Society: An Empirical Analysis of Japan’s Manufacturing Industry (2003)

Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver for Maximizing the Potential Capacity of IT: Policy Options for Constructing a Virtuous Cycle between Institutional Elasticity and IT Development (2003)

*Techno-structural Analysis of Canon’s Diversification Strategy (2003)

A Survival Strategy for the Japanese Electric Power Industry amidst Megacompetition in an IT Driven Global Economy: Institutional Resilience and Consortia as Critical Success Factors Addressing Complex Issues (2002)

The Optimal Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: An Exploration of Institutional Dynamism (2002)

Functionality Development as a Source of Innovation in High-Technology Industry (2002)

*Paradox of Success and Failure in New Products Development: Survival Strategy of Japan’s Pharmaceutical Industry under the Co-evolutionary Constraints (2001)

*An Empirical Analysis of the Policy Effectiveness of Government-Sponsored Cooperative R&D Project: A Case Study of MITI Initiated Computer Project (2001)

*A Methodological Study of Patent Statistics for Technoeconomic Analysis: An Approach to Patentometrics (2001)

Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Demonstration of Optimal R&D Investment Trajectory Control (2000)

International Environmental Negotiation and Domestic Institution: A Study on the Japanese Decision-Making Process for the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2000)

The Evolutional Structure and Its Dynamics of Product Innovation: The Case of Consumer Products (2000)

*An Analysis of the Time-lags in Governing Factors for Price Formation and their Effects on Price by Linear Multi-correlation Model (2000)

*Study on the Revolution of Entrepreneurial System through Strategic Alliance: Co-evolutional Relationship between Firms based on an Organizational Systems Approach and Consequent Technology Development Strategy (1999)

*An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Market Structure and Cultural Climate on the Acceptance of Technology: Introduction of Econo-geography into Techno-economics (1999)

*An Empirical Analysis of the Role of the Vision in MITI Initiated National R&D Program (1999)

An Empirical Analysis of the Structural Factor Facilitating Japanese Firms’ International R&D Activities in the Latter 1990s (1999)

An Empirical Analysis of R&D Dynamics and R&D Corporate Strategy of Japan in the 1970s and 1980s (1997)

Consulting Work

Professional Service
Member of the Advisory Councils

2005 - 2007
Member, Expert Group, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

2002 - 2004
Member, Evaluation Panel, Agency of University Evaluation

2001 - 2003
Chairman, Industrial Technology Policy Review Study Group, Ministry of Economy Trade & Industry (METI)

1999 - 2003
Chairman, Energy Utilization System Evaluation Committee, NEDO

1997 - 1999
Chairman, End Use Energy Technology Committee, IEA, OECD

1996 - 2001
Science Advisory Member, Science & Technology Agency

1996 – 1999
Chairman, Energy Technology Evaluation Committee, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

1995 - 1998
Science and Technology Advisory Panel, Global Environmental Facility (GEF), UN

Members of the Editorial Board of the Academic Journals

International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (2008)

Enterprise Information Systems (2008)

International Journal of Applied Management Science (2007)

Technovation (2005)

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (2003)

Journal of Advances in Management Research (2003)

Journal of Services Research (2001)

Journal of Industrial Ecology (1997)

Memberships of Institutes and Professional Bodies

1997 - present
Engineering Academy of Japan

1995 - present
International House of Japan

1987 - present
The Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management