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Inoue Lab
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A management research lab that explores how innovation emerges, starting from platforms.
AboutAbout the lab
Uncovering how innovation is born.
The Inoue Lab studies management, centering on innovation management.
It covers a wide range of topics, including technology management, business strategy, platform strategy, and e-commerce (EC).
Interested in the problem that "superior technology does not necessarily lead to business success," the lab conducts its research mainly through data analysis.
The lab aims to uncover the mechanisms by which innovation emerges and to make them practically usable in society.
Key terms
- Innovation
- Creating value that did not exist before through new technologies or ideas, and spreading it throughout society
- Platform
- A foundation where many companies and users gather to exchange products and services
- Ecosystem
- A way of viewing the connections and interactions among companies and organizations by likening them to a biological ecosystem
NewsLab news
A single-author paper by Associate Professor Inoue was published in an international journal on innovation research
A single-author paper by Associate Professor Inoue was published in Digital Business
A paper led by a doctoral student as first author was published in Platforms
A paper led by a doctoral student as first author was published in Sustainability
At the Japan Society for Management of Technology, Associate Professor Inoue won the Gold Award and a master's student won the Silver Award
ResearchResearch themes
The Inoue Lab studies innovation from various perspectives: what it is, how it arises, how it can be created, and how it can be put to good use. Its research so far falls under themes such as platforms, ecosystems, categories, and resonance.
*Illustrative imagePlatforms
The lab seeks to uncover how platforms that generate innovation work and to establish methods for designing them. It has analyzed smart home products and accommodation intermediary platforms.
*Illustrative imageEcosystems
The lab studies the nature of innovation that arises within ecosystems and the mechanisms behind it. One study used home video game consoles as an example to analyze the growth and decline of an ecosystem.
*Illustrative imageCategories
The lab studies how innovation emerges on the foundation of categories such as products and genres, and how to create entirely new categories.
*Illustrative imageBusiness Models
The lab studies business models that generate innovation, as well as innovation in business models themselves. In joint research with a company, it organized the process of shifting from selling products to providing services.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Inoue Lab consist of faculty, research collaborators, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYuki InouePublications ↗
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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: “Coworking Space in Columbus Ohio” Benlande / CC0 (cropped)
- Platforms: “Nurse log in old-growth forest. (a1804138eacb48e6b3f4a0f84b03f314)” Steve Redman / Public domain (cropped)
- Ecosystems: “Coral reef at palmyra” U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Pacific Region（Jim Maragos） / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Categories: “Buntstifte” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Business Models: “The cast-off shell of a cicada July 2007” Laitche / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (小林研究室): “Aerial photograph of the Port of Miami Container Port” James R. Tourtellotte / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (福田研究室): “Chess pieces close up” Aaaatu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (河﨑研究室): “Go” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (妹尾研究室): “Chairs in a meeting room (Unsplash)” Breather breather / CC0 (cropped)
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