Short Biography

Hiroyuki Odagiri

Hiroyuki Odagiri studied at Kyoto University (B.A.), Osaka University (M.A.) and Northwestern University (Ph.D.) and, since 2010,has been teaching at the Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University, Japan. Previously he taught at Oberlin College (USA),University of Tsukuba (Japan) and Hitotsubashi University (Japan). He also has an ample research experience abroad, serving as a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Management (IIM) of Science Centre Berlin (Germany) during 1982-1983 and the Centre for Business Strategy of London Business School (UK) during 1988-1990. During 2001-2004, he also directed research at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), a research institute of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Since April 2008, he is the Director of Competition Policy Research Center, Fair Trade Commission of Japan.

His fields of specialization are the theory of the firm, industrial organization, and economic studies of innovation. He has written numerous books and journal papers in English and Japanese. Among the books published in English are The Theory of Growth in a Corporate Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1981), which won a 'Nikkei Award to Economic Literature' in Japan; Growth through Competition, Competition through Growth (Oxford University Press,1992), Technology and Industrial Development in Japan (Oxford University Press, 1996, co-authored with A. Goto), and Intellectual Property Rights, Development, and Catch-Up (Oxford University Press,2010, co-edited with A. Goto, A. Sunami, and R. R. Nelson). His Japanese books include Economics of the Firm (Toyo Keizai, 2000 (2nd Edition, 2010)), Modern Industrial Organization (Yuhikaku, 2001), The Economics of Biotechnology (Toyo Keizai, 2006), and Competition Policy (Nihon Hyoron Sha, 2008).