Sadao Nagaoka Editor

Dr. Sadao Nagaoka is a Professor of economics at Tokyo Keizai University (Japan). Before this position, he was a professor at the Institute of Innovation Research of Hitotsubashi University (Japan). He has been the Program Director for research on innovation in the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He worked in the MITI, the World Bank and in the OECD. He has been an economic advisor for the JPO and was a member of the Economic and Scientific Advisory Board of the EPO. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His scientific interests are economics of innovation, especially R&D, intellectual property, standards and science. His recent publications appeared in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Technology Transfer, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies and the US National Academies.