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Nathaniel Agola Wins Best Paper Award
Nathaniel Agola won the Palgrave Macmillan and EAMSA Best Paper Award for 2009 at the EAMSA (Euro-Asia Management Studies Association) conference held at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) from Oct. 22nd to 24th, 2009. Mr. Agola received his award for his research presentation on “Technology and knowledge transfer in Japanese corporate groups: Insights on growth and innovation.”
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Report on 5th SIEM research meeting
Our 5th SIEM research group meeting was conducted during the Association of Japanese Geographers’ 2009 spring meeting. We received a presentation delivered by Dr. Michael Plattner (Trier University). We are grateful to the participation of Prof. Tetsuo Abo (Teikyo University) who is now also a mentor of our research group.
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Report on 4th SIEM research meeting
In October 8, 2008 at Iwate University during the Association of Japanese Geographers’ autumn meeting the research group met. We received a presentation about “Agglomeration Mechanism of the Content Industry” from Mr. Kenta Yamamoto (Tohoku University). Thanks’ to the participation of another specialist on animation industry, Mr. Seji Hanzawa (Osaka City University), we had a controversial and interesting discussion. We are also grateful to the comments of Prof. Masateru Hino (Tohoku University), who is a leading economic and urban geographer and an important promoter of our research group on Spaces of International Economy and Management (SIEM).
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Report on 3rd SIEM research meeting
Thanks to the interesting presentation of Prof. Hachiro Hagiwara and Ms. Rosalia Avila and the critical questions of the participants, the 3rd meeting was quite interesting. The number of participants tippled due to the increasing the awareness of globalization issues among geographers in Japan.
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Report on 2nd Research group meeting
Our 2nd Spaces of International Economy and Management. (SIEM) meeting was quite a success! We had two speakers: Prof. Taira who gave a presentation about the future prospects of our research group and Prof. Schlunze who presented a methodology for surveying locational preferences of international managers. Please find attached a summary of the presentations.
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Report on 1st SIEM research group meeting at March 21, 2007
The founding members of SIEM participated in the first SIEM research group meeting. We used English language in the meeting since our idea is to communicate our joint research internationally! During the meeting we introduced in detail a “road map” for conducting our common research. I briefly list the “range beacons”:
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