Job title:
Associate Professor
Other affiliations (3):
Yokohama National University
Interfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies
Associate Professor
Yokohama National University
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences Department of Artificial Environment
Associate Professor
Yokohama National University
College of Urban Sciences Department of Risk Management and Environmental Science
Associate Professor
Research field (1):
Economic policy
Research keywords (2):
北欧
, Regional Political Economy
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
2013 - 2015 A Regional Economic Research on the Growth Points Strategies in Finland
2011 - 2013 Comparative Regional Institutional Analysis of Nordic Economies: For Development of Regional Political Economy Approach
2010 - 2011 Regional Institutional Approach to the Economic Development Model of Nordic Countries: the Case of Development of ICT Industry in Stockholm, Sweden
2009 - 2009 A Study on the Institutional Transfer of "Oulu-Model" and Regional Economic Developments in the Northern Finland
Papers (8):
Meguru, Shigemura, Akira, Endo. Estimating the Development Potential of Regional Industries by Technological Relatedness Analysis: A Case Study of AI-related Technologies in Japan. Yokohama journal of technology management studies. 2022. 21. 12-28
Akira Endo. Exploring a New Framework of Regional Policy : A Comparative Regional Institutional Approach. Regional Economic Studies. 2014. 27. 29-47-47
Akira Endo. Regional Institutions and Path Modification: Exploring Regional Economic Policy Based on a Case Study of Development Process of the ICT Industry in Oulu, Finland. ECONOMIA. 2012. 63. 1. 53-94-94
Akira Endo. A Study on Regional Economies and Regional Policy in Finland. Doctoral Thesis, International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama National University. 2012
A Survey of Institutional Approaches to Regional Economic Study and the Development : Some Implications for the Regional Economic Policy in Contemporary Japan. Ryukoku Journal of Policy Science. 2012. 2. 1. 47-64
Development Process of Horizontal Intercity Networks between Mid-sized Cities: the Case of Oulu, Finland - Sendai, Japan Collaboration
(Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2022)
Big-tech and Regional Economic Studies: the Case of Silicon Valley
(The Japan Association for Regional Economic Studies, 2021, 33rd Annual Conference in Fukushima)
「資本主義の多様性」論と地域経済研究
(日本地域経済学会関東支部研究会 2019)
Changing Japanese Technopoles and Possibility of Path Creation in the Age of Knowledge-based Economy
(Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2015)
- 2012 Yokohama National University International Graduate School of Social Sciences
- 2006 Yokohama National University Faculty of Economics
Professional career (1):
博士(経済学) (横浜国立大学)
Work history (6):
2015/04 - 現在 Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences Associate Professor
2013/04 - 2015/03 Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences Lecturer
2012/04 - 2013/03 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (at Kyoto University) Special researcher of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2011/04 - 2012/03 Doctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (at Yokohama National University)
2010/09 - 2011/03 Uppsala University Department of Social and Economic Geography Visiting Scholar
2008/09 - 2009/08 University of Oulu Department of Geography Visiting Scholar
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Association Membership(s) (4):
Regional Studies Association
, The Japan Association of Economic Geographers
, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
, The Japan Association for Regional Economic Studies