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Kito Lab
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The lab studies how complex connections among companies and people give rise to value.
AboutAbout the lab
The science of complex relationships.
The Kito Lab studies how companies and people interact to form the economy and society, and how they keep creating value within it.
Its approach combines three fields: complex systems, value creation, and network science.
The lab takes the shape of the connections themselves as its object of analysis, including transaction relationships between companies, supply chains, and teamwork.
The lab analyzes real-world data, builds models, runs simulations, and develops theory, and collaborates with experts in related fields such as management, economics, and sociology.
Key terms
- Complex systems
- Collections whose overall behavior cannot be understood by looking at the individual elements alone. A flock of birds is one example.
- Network science
- A research field that studies the way multiple elements are connected to one another.
- Resilience
- The ability to regain original function after taking a blow.
- Diversification strategy
- A management approach in which a company expands into multiple business areas, products, or customers.
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The lab studies complex systems that create value within the economy and society, focusing on the connections among their elements, that is, networks. Through real-data analysis, modeling, simulation, and theory building, it examines complexity from multiple angles.
*Illustrative imageDiversification Strategy
A company can expand its business into multiple industries, offer multiple products or services within the same industry, or reach multiple customers. These are not separate matters but problems of allocating limited resources. The lab uses complex network science approaches to treat mathematically the complex relationships among a company's own strategies and among the strategies of different companies.
*Illustrative imageValue Creation in Startups
The value of a startup does not show up in its sales, profits, or fixed assets. The challenge is how to measure intangible assets such as technological sophistication, uniqueness, and personal connections. Through joint research with companies, the lab is developing its own AI based on network science and machine learning.
*Illustrative imageSupply Chains
A supply chain is a real-world complex system in which multiple companies share roles to deliver products and services to consumers. If one part stops because of a disaster or misconduct, the whole system can stop functioning. The lab analyzes relationships between companies, where cooperation and competition coexist, using network science methods, and conducts research to strengthen the ability to recover from shocks.
*Illustrative imageTransportation Networks
Research on transportation networks bears not only on everyday convenience but also on realizing compact cities and securing access to supplies and facilities during disasters. The lab analyzes and models these networks using network science methods and simulation, with the aim of helping solve regional issues.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Kito Lab consist of faculty and master's students.
- ProfessorTomomi Kito
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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: “Freight train at Kashii Station”
そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Diversification Strategy: “Po River Delta aerial 2” kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Value Creation in Startups: “Young seedling of tomato emerging from soil - India” Ksheera Piraati / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Supply Chains: “Red weaver ants transporting a dead gecko, in Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Transportation Networks: “Aerial View of Interchange Between Ontario Highways 401, 403, and 410” Coolcaesar / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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