Hiroyuki OkamuroProfessor at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and a consulting fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

Hiroyuki Okamuro is Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and a consulting fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Bonn, Germany. Okamuro is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Small Business Management and Editorial Review Board Member of Small Business Economics. His major research interests are entrepreneurship, small business, innovation and policy evaluation. Among his publications, Nishimura, J. and Okamuro, H. (2018). Internal and external discipline: The effect of project leadership and government monitoring on the performance of publicly funded R&D consortia. Research Policy 47 (6), 840-853; Okamuro, H. and Nishimura, J. (2018). Whose business is your project? A comparative study of different subsidy policy schemes for collaborative R&D. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 127, 85-96.