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Dr. Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Innovation Research and Graduate School of Business Administration at Hitotsubashi University.

He studies a wide range of topics in innovation management linking management and legal perspectives. He has published research articles on innovation policy, higher education policy, and intellectual property management. His research topics cover industrial design innovation measurement, socio-institutional factors of academic commercialization engagement, and contract-renewal motives of university-industry collaborative research. 

He received an L.L.M. from Osaka University, Japan, in 2007 and a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2015. He worked as a policy analyst in innovation and intellectual property policy for one of the largest private think-tank in Japan. Prior to joining Hitotsubashi University, he worked for the University of Tokyo as a Project Research Associate.

ORCID: 0000-0003-4393-3989

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