Professor Itsutomo MITSUI's CURRICULUM VITAE


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Revised on 11th May 2020


Affiliation:

Professor Emeritus, Yokohama National University

Officially retired from the Professorship, Kaetsu University, in March 2018

Former Dean of Graduate School of Business Innovation, Kaetsu University, 2015-2018.


e-mail: imitsui@yokohama.email.ne.jp




Profile:

Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.


BA in Economics, Keio University in 1972.

Graduated from the Ph.D Program of Graduate School, Keio University in 1981. Granted a degree of MA in Economics from Keio Univ. in 1975.

After joining Dep. of Economics, Komazawa University as a lecturer in 1981, and an associate professor in 1985, appointed to a professorship in 1991, until 2001.

Professor, Division of Social Environment and Information Studies, Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, and YOKOHAMA-MOT, Department of Innovation Management and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, between 2001 and 2012.

Professor, Graduate School of Business Innovation, Kaetsu University, between 2012 and 2018.


Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, U.K., between 1986 and 1987.

Visiting Professor at the Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University Business School, U.K., between 1998 and 1999.

Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University, Tokyo, between 2001 and 2002.

Visiting Professor at the Academic School, Institute of Developing Economies (IDEAS), Chiba, in 2012.

Visiting Professor, Kaetsu University Graduate School, Tokyo, in 2018

Parttime Lecturer at the Graduate School of Commerce, Senshu University, Tokyo, between 2002 and 2011.

Parttime Lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics, Hokusei-gakuen University, Sapporo, between 2001 and 2012.

Parttime Lecturer at the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, between 2001 and 2014.

Parttime Lecturer/ Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Management, Shinshu University, Nagano.

Honoured Professor Emeritus by the Yokohama National University in 2012.



    　

Passing Standing board member of the JASBS (Japan Academy of Small Business Studies) (former President between 2008-2010).

Former member of the editorial advisory board of the International Small Business Journal.

Chairman of the ISBCJ (International Small Business Committee of Japan).

Former President of the JICSB (Japanese Committee of International Council for Small Business).



Member of the referee committee of Chusho Kigyo Kenkyu Shorei-sho (Award for Excellent SME Studies), sponsored by the Shoko Research Institute.

Chairman of the selection committee of Yushu Kigyo Hyosho (Award for Excellent SMEs), sponsored by the Tokyo Association of Shinkin Banks.

Former Research Advisor of the Research Institute, Japan Finance Corporation.

Research interests:

SME economy and policies, especially a comparative study between in Japanese and EU economies.




Current research topics are:

A theoretical discourse of universal existence and problematique of SMEs and SME studies in the global context,

Developments in the EU's policies for SMEs in the last decades, and their comparative studies,

Regional economies, industrial agglomeration 'cluster' model and regional innovation policies,

New phase of Japanese production system and subcontracting management at home and abroad,

CSR issues for SMEs and social entrepreneurship,

The state of entrepreneurship and enterprise culture in Japan today and tomorrow,

Policy issues for encouraging new start-ups and business sucession.



International Academic Communities:

Presentation at the 19th International Small Business Congress, Warsaw, in 1992.

Presentation at the 3rd Malaysian Annual Conference on Japan, Kuala Lumpur, in 1994.

Coordinatorship at the Japan-German Conference on the Future of SMEs, Berlin, in 1994.

Presentation at the 21st ISBA National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference, Durham, in 1998.

Presentation as a panellist at the 26th International Small Business Congress, Toronto, in 1999.

Presentation at the 30th International Small Business Congress, Singapore, in 2003.

Presentation at the 36th International Small Business Congress, Taipei, in 2010.

Panelist at the ISBC Workshop (in the 56th ICSB), Stockholm, in 2011.

Presentation at the KASBS (Korean Association of Small Business) Annual Conference, Seoul, in 2012.

Presentation at the Policy Forum, 2nd ACSB Conference, Seoul, in 2014.

Presentation at the SME seminar, Yangon, jointly sponsoured by the UMFCCI and JMEIC in 2015.

Presentation at the Concurrent academic session, 5th ACSB Conference, Nay Pyi Daw, in 2017.

Presentation at the 3rd Pan-Yellow Sea Forum, Gongju, in 2017.


A joint research project on 'Internationalisation of European SMEs' sponsoured by the EIM Research and Policy, on behalf of the Enterprise and Industy DG, European Commission.

A series of lectures on industrial and SME policies in Japan at the IDEAS, Institute of Developing Economies.

A series of lectures on regional economies in Japan at the Pre-sessional Courses for overseas students, sponsored by the JICA.

A series of lectures on SME policies in Japan and on Japanese subcontracting system and management for Asian, Latin American and European study and training missions, sponsored by the AOTS and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation.

Joint research and writing project about the "Brilliant Success" of Japanese economy and big businesses in the 1980s, with Professor Karel WILLIAMS, Univ. of Manchester and his associates.
Books and writings:

* please see ANNEX



Interests:

nothing particular Taking photos with collecting cameras; Watching (old) movies