The Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation

Based on socioeconomic issues in individual fields, the Market Research Section analyzes market structure and behaviors of economic agents in order to search for possibility of social innovation, and conducts research of generalization and analysis on laws of market performances and modelling our observations of market.


Assistant Director of the Center; Section Head　 SHIMOMURA Ken-Ichi

Current Projects

The projects in this section are categorized into: (1) research on individual and business behavior and on business interactions, and (2) research on macroeconomic growth and innovation. In the first category, we are carrying out research on such themes as rationality of human decision-making and behavior, strengthening the supply chain in response to high-level risks such as major natural disasters, changes in structure of international division of labor and sustainability of global environment and natural resource usage, creation of innovation via use of computer and big data, and changes in Japanese management system in globalizing market economy. Research in the second category covers such themes as escaping the middle-income trap in newly emerging economies, strengthening innovation in developing countries, role of international trade and financial market in growing economies with structural changes, elucidating　interdependence and sustainability of regional economies through cooperation among universities in Pacific Rim countries, industrialization and agglomeration in China, and effects of urbanization and migration in China on international trade and FDI.