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Maki Lab
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A lab that uses data and experiments to uncover how innovation and entrepreneurship work.

AboutAbout the lab
Envisioning new businesses from evidence.
The Maki Lab's research area is innovation and entrepreneurship.
Its main subjects are the process by which startups and new businesses emerge, and the design of innovation ecosystems that span universities, companies, and public policy.
Through data analysis and field experiments, students learn methodologies for evidence-based decision-making.
The lab aims to develop the ability to envision new businesses and institutions that create economic value and social value at the same time.
Key terms
- Entrepreneurship
- The attitude and ability to start a new business on one's own and bring it to life in society
- Innovation ecosystem
- An environment in which universities, companies, governments, and others interact so that new technologies and businesses emerge one after another
- Field experiment
- A research method in which conditions are varied in a real-world setting and the results are compared to determine what produced an outcome
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's research area is innovation and entrepreneurship, and it conducts empirical research to explore their mechanisms. Using data analysis and field experiments, it applies methodologies for evidence-based decision-making.
*Illustrative imageCreation of startups and new businesses
The lab uses empirical research to examine the processes through which startups and new businesses come into being.
*Illustrative imageDesign of innovation ecosystems
The lab studies how to design environments in which new technologies and businesses emerge across universities, companies, and public policy.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorKanetaka Maki
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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: “Cranes made by Origami paper” Laitche / Public domain (cropped)
- Creation of startups and new businesses: “Brown egg hatching” Linsenhejhej / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Design of innovation ecosystems: “Nurse log in forest. (9220f6cb9a90459d913e76947616afd2)” Steve Redman (MORA) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (三原研究室): “Santorin (GR), Fira” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (黄研究室): “Prince Rupert Container Terminal” Sam Beebe / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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