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Kano-Matsuo Lab (Bio-Innovation Policy)
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A lab that studies innovation in medicine and biotechnology from the perspectives of intellectual property, regulation, and policy.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring medical innovation through the social sciences.
The Kano-Matsuo Lab studies innovation in the life sciences and medicine using social science methods.
The lab aims to develop students' ability to deal with intellectual property, technical standards, and the rules for using new technologies as a whole.
Its work keeps returning to two questions: what kinds of innovation are occurring within industry, and how to measure them.
Research themes are developed from students' own interests, and the lab spends considerable time reworking them into well-formed research questions.
Key terms
- Intellectual Property
- Rights that protect the value of ideas people create, such as inventions and designs. Patents are the best-known example.
- Regulation
- The regulations and rules that apply when new medical products and similar items are brought to market. The government sets up the review and approval mechanisms.
- National Innovation System
- A system in which a country's institutions, organizations, and policies combine to generate and nurture new technologies.
NewsLab news
Admissions information session for the Medical Innovation Course held at Shirokanedai Campus
Associate Professor Matsuo contributed to the Handbook of Synthetic Biology (NTS Inc.)
A special feature edited by Professor Kano, "Policies and Challenges for Promoting the Development of New Medical Technologies," was published in the monthly journal Saibo
Associate Professor Matsuo's paper accepted by Frontiers in Genetics
Students won the Gold and Silver Student Awards at the Annual Research Presentation Conference of the Japan Society for Management of Technology
ResearchResearch themes
The lab empirically analyzes the realities of innovation in biotechnology and advanced medicine, and investigates how it relates to intellectual property strategy, technical standards strategy, and regulations and institutions. The lab considers clarifying these relationships important for shaping future innovation policy and corporate strategy.
*Illustrative imageIntellectual Property Strategy in Biotechnology
This research provides a foundation for discussing intellectual property rights strategy in the life sciences. It focuses on how intellectual property rights should be handled when a breakthrough occurs or a new research field emerges, and also analyzes the patent strategies behind Nobel Prize-level achievements, such as the PCR patents.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring Innovation in Advanced Medicine
In addition to analyses using patent and literature databases, the lab develops methods for measuring R&D activity by focusing on specific technologies, products, and companies, and empirically analyzes innovation in advanced medicine.
*Illustrative imageInnovation and Regulation
Based on the view that putting regulations in place can stimulate innovation, the lab studies how regulation and innovation influence each other.
*Illustrative imageNational Innovation Systems
The lab studies Japan's institutions and organizations and its science and technology policy. Its work includes building models to analyze technology transfer, examining the impact of large-scale analysis on life science research, and evaluating science and technology policy in bioinformatics.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShingo KanoPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorMakiko MatsuoPublications ↗
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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: “Assorted Medications ( )” NIAID / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Intellectual Property Strategy in Biotechnology: “PCR tubes” Madprime / CC0 (cropped)
- Measuring Innovation in Advanced Medicine: “CapsuleEndoscope” Euchiasmus / Public domain (cropped)
- Innovation and Regulation: “3D png Judges Gavel” Orginal: Chris Potter - Modifier: Ibrahim.ID / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- National Innovation Systems: “Diet of Japan Kokkai 2009” Wiiii / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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