YASUNORI BABA is Professor of Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. His research covers innovation studies and science and technology policy.
STEVEN W. COLLINS is Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell. He is also co‐principal of the Biotechnology and Biomedical Technology Institute, being established to study social, economic, and public policy implications of biotechnology. His teaching and research interests include traditional and modern Japanese culture and society, history of technology, and science and technology policy. He is author of The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology (Routledge, 2004).
DAVID W. EDGINGTON is Director of the Centre of Japanese Research, University of British Columbia. He is also an Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia. His teaching and research interests include the geography of Japan and the Pacific Rim region, Japanese trade and overseas investment, urban and regional planning, as well as multicultural planning in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the editor of Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past and Future (UBC Press, 2003).
AKIRA GOTO is Commissioner of Japan Fair Trade Commission, and Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo, and Professor at the National Institute of Policy Studies (GRIPS). He is studying industrial organization, particularly the economics of technical change and the economics of competition policy.
CARIN HOLROYD holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Global Governance Innovation. Her most recent book is Innovation Nation: Science and Technology in 21st Century Japan (Palgrave, 2007).
KATHRYN IBATA‐ARENS, Ph.D., Northwestern University is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago. Ibata‐Arens specializes in international and comparative political economy, entrepreneurship policy, high technology policy and Japanese political economy. Ibata‐Arens’ book Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Politics, Organizations and High Technology Firms (Cambridge University Press, 2005), analyzes high technology firms and regional economies in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo.
FUMI KITAGAWA holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Studies. Her research interest includes roles of universities in innovation and city‐region development. Her work at Department for Higher Education, National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER) has focused on internationalisation of higher education; innovation systems and university‐industry links; and universities’ contribution to their regions. She participated in international reviews for the OECD project “Supporting the Contribution of HEIs (Higher Education Institutes) to Regional Development in Atlantic Canada and Busan in South Korea”.
PHILIP SHAPIRA is Professor of Innovation, Management and Policy at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, and Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He teaches and conducts research on innovation and technology policy, economic and regional development, and policy evaluation. He was an expert panelist for the OECD Territorial Review of Japan (2004) and is a co‐editor of Innovation Policy—Theory and Practice: An International Handbook (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2008).
JOHN P. WALSH is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. He studies science, technology and innovation, using a sociological perspective to explain how research organizations respond to changes in their policy environment. He is currently studying inventors and their inventions in the US and Japan.
LEE WOOLGAR PhD, is a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) and a visiting lecturer at the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo. He conducts research on university‐industry links and human resources for science and technology.
YOSHIHITO YASAKI is Instructor at Kogakuin University, School of Global Engineering. His research covers the design of competition policy and intellectual property policy.