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Intellectual Property Lab
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The lab uses economics to analyze technology transfer at public institutions and the starting of companies.

AboutAbout the lab
Understanding innovation and entrepreneurship through economics.
The Intellectual Property Lab studies innovation and entrepreneurship (starting a company) from the perspective of economic policy.
Using data, the lab quantitatively analyzes how the technology transfer activities of regional public testing and research institutes affect outcomes such as the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The lab also examines how factors such as the quality of science affect the IPOs and fundraising of university spin-off startups.
The lab's website is set up as the personal page of Associate Professor Nobuya Fukugawa.
Key terms
- Public testing and research institutes (kosetsushi)
- Public research institutions located in each region. They carry out technology transfer activities such as technical consultation, analysis, and testing.
- Technology transfer
- Passing the technology and knowledge of universities and public institutions on to the companies and others who use them. Technical consultation, analysis, and testing are examples.
- Panel data
- Data collected by following the same subjects (such as companies or institutions) over multiple points in time.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies innovation and entrepreneurship from the perspective of economic policy. It uses data to quantitatively analyze the technology transfer of public testing and research institutes, as well as the IPOs and fundraising of startups.
Evaluating the technology transfer of public testing and research institutes
This theme analyzes how the technology transfer and technical support provided by regional public testing and research institutes affect the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises. Using panel data, the lab also examines the effect of incorporating these institutes, looking at outcomes such as technology transfer results.
*Illustrative imageIPOs and fundraising of university spin-off startups
Using Japanese data, the lab analyzes how the quality of science and innovation affects the IPOs and fundraising of university spin-off startups. The lab's papers also address the pathways through which university research results are turned into businesses.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorNobuya Fukugawa
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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: “Dress Shirt production Line allocation in a RMG factory of Bangladesh” Fahad Faisal / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- IPOs and fundraising of university spin-off startups: “New York Stock Exchange August 2017 02” Arild Vågen / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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