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Nishino Lab
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The lab designs the mechanisms of services and society using game theory and economic experiments.
AboutAbout the lab
Building practical mechanisms for a co-creative society
The Nishino Lab studies the design of the mechanisms underlying services and socioeconomic systems.
The lab takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines engineering and economics, bridging the sciences and the humanities.
Its methods include game theory, economic experiments, multi-agent systems, and mechanism design.
Its themes include the value of technology, service design, and environmentally conscious economic activity.
Key terms
- Game theory
- A theory that analyzes decision-making among people who influence one another by representing it with mathematical models
- Mechanism design
- A field of applied game theory that designs institutions and rules that produce outcomes desirable for society
- Circular economy
- An economic model that uses resources efficiently and keeps them in circulation while also creating new value
ResearchResearch themes
To realize a co-creative society, the lab aims to build mechanisms that work in the real world. Using methods such as game theory, economic experiments, and field experiments, it works on the following themes.
*Illustrative imageThe value of technology
Technology creates value only once it becomes a product and is used in society. The lab considers how that value can be expressed numerically, and scientifically investigates what makes a technology desirable for society.
*Illustrative imageService design
Service design is the problem of deciding the mechanisms and rules within the flow of how a service is used. The lab takes a scientific approach to services, which often rely on experience and intuition.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmentally conscious economic activity
Making use of new services and institutions such as sharing, the lab scientifically clarifies the structure of economic systems that can realize a circular economy.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Nishino Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, academic specialists, secretaries, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and visiting and collaborating researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorNariaki NishinoPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Go” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The value of technology: “RockPaperMatrix” HowieKor / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Service design: “Queueing node service digram” Dt-rush-8 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environmentally conscious economic activity: “The Circular Economy concept” Geissdoerfer, M., Pieroni, M.P., Pigosso, D.C. and Soufani, K. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (田中研究室): “Electricity pylons at sunset in Quebec City” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (藤井研究室): “Tokyo by night 2011” Nalilord / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (坂田・森・浅谷・西本研究室): “Social Network Visualization” Martin Grandjean / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (柴崎研究室): “Aerial image of the Bremerhaven container terminal (view from the southeast)” Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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