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Chihiro Watanabe
Guest Research Scholar
Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Chihiro Watanabe joined the Institute in July 1994 as Senior Advisor to the Director on Technology. He is conducting empirical analyses on the interaction between technological innovation and industrial development, the motivation of technological innovation, and the substitution of technology for constrained production factors, e.g., energy and environmental constraints.Professor Watanabe graduated from Tokyo University with a bachelor's degree in engineering (urban planning) in 1968 and received his PhD (arts and sciences) in 1992, also from Tokyo University.
Professor Watanabe began his affiliation with the Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1968 and has spent most of his career there, mainly working in the fields of industrial policy, industrial technology policy, and energy and environmental policies. He is former Deputy Director-General of Technology Development at MITI. He was a member of the UN's GEF (Global Environmental Facility) STAP (Science & Technology Advisory Panel) and Chairman of IEA's Working Party on End-Use Technology.
Professor Watanabe is currently Professor at the Department of Industrial Management, Tokyo Seitoku University, as well as Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore and Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Institute of Technology. Prof. Watanabe was Director of the Research Center for the Science of Institutional Management of Technology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He served the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in the capacity of Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Technology. He is also associated with the United Nations University (UNU) as a visiting professor.
He has published widely in the fields of industrial technology, energy, and the environment and received the Minister of Education, Science & Technology Award, JSSPRM (Japan Society for Science Policy & Research Management) Award, and IAMOT (Intl. Association for Management of Technology) Research Award in 2008.
Last update: 28 MAR 2011
Publications
Watanabe, C., Zhu, B. , & Miyazawa, T. (2001). Hierarchical impacts of the length of technology waves: An analysis of techno-labor homeostasis. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 68 (1) 81-104. 10.1016/S0040-1625(00)00106-2.
Tarasyev, A.M. & Watanabe, C. (2001). Optimal dynamics of innovation in models of economic growth. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 108 (1) 175-303.
Tarasyev, A.M. & Watanabe, C. (2001). Robustness of optimal timing strategies in dynamic investment processes. In: Preprints of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, 4-6 July 2001.
Orihata, M. & Watanabe, C. (2000). Evolutional dynamics of product innovation: the case of consumer electronics. Technovation 20 (8) 437-449. 10.1016/S0166-4972(99)00152-2.
Watanabe, C., Wakabayashi, K., & Miyazawa, T. (2000). Industrial dynamism and the creation of a “virtuous cycle” between R&D, market growth and price reduction: The case of photovoltaic power generation (PV) development in Japan. Technovation 20 (6) 299-312. 10.1016/S0166-4972(99)00146-7.