Associate Professor Atsushi Akiike of this Graduate School participated in a collaborative research project (“A Technological Turbulence in a Product Category and a Borrowing of Style from Other Product Categories: An Explorative Study of the U.S. Design Patents”), which received the Best Paper Award at the 2025 JPIM Research Forum.
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This conference is organized by the Product Development and Management Association, publisher of the Journal of Product Innovation Management, a renowned international journal in the field of innovation management. The 2025 conference was held in Chicago, USA, on September 13-14. The award-winning research was led by Associate Professor Toru Yoshioka (Kobayashi) of Hitotsubashi University and presented as a collaborative study with Associate Professor Sotaro Katsumata of Osaka University and Associate Professor Atsushi Akiike of this Graduate School.
The award is also documented at the following link (Hitotsubashi University website):