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Chihiro Watanabe

Chihiro Watanabe

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
6222
World Ranking
5396
National Ranking
16

Overview

Chihiro Watanabe is affiliated with Kanazawa University in Japan with a research profile spanning medicine and computer science. Their work integrates multiple disciplines, with significant contributions in areas such as innovation diffusion, digital platforms, and audio processing technologies.

The scientist's publication record includes recent papers covering topics from digital transformation in industries to healthcare challenges. Notable papers include:

  • "Amazon's New Supra-Omnichannel: Realizing Growing Seamless Switching for Apparel During COVID-19" (2021) in Technology in Society
  • "Amazon's initiative transforming a non-contact society - Digital disruption leads the way to stakeholder capitalization" (2021) in Technology in Society
  • "A new perspective of innovation toward a non-contact society - Amazon's initiative in pioneering growing seamless switching" (2022) in Technology in Society
  • "A New Perspective on the Textile and Apparel Industry in the Digital Transformation Era" (2022) in Textiles
  • "Detection of adenovirus hepatitis and acute liver failure in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients" (2020) in Transplant Infectious Disease

Their frequent collaborators reflect diverse interdisciplinary engagements. Coauthors include Yuji Tou, Pekka Neittaanmäki, Taiji Suzuki, Waleed Akhtar, and Eri Oyanagi.

Watanabe publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Technology in Society
  • The Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine
  • International Journal of Managing Information Technology
  • Nippon Jibiinkoka Tokeibugeka Gakkai Kaiho (Tokyo)

Their main fields of study are medicine and computer science with subfields including economics and econometrics, artificial intelligence, signal processing, marketing, and strategy and management.

Key topics in their research encompass:

  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
  • Innovation Policy and R&D

Best Publications

  • Industrial dynamism and the creation of a “virtuous cycle” between R&D, market growth and price reduction: The case of photovoltaic power generation (PV) development in Japan

    Chihiro Watanabe;Kouji Wakabayashi;Toshinori Miyazawa

  • Microstructure and mechanical properties of Cu–Ni–Si alloys

    Ryoichi Monzen;Chihiro Watanabe

  • Measuring GDP in the digital economy: Increasing dependence on uncaptured GDP

    Chihiro Watanabe;Chihiro Watanabe;Kashif Naveed;Yuji Tou;Pekka Neittaanmäki

  • Mechanical properties of Cu–Cr system alloys with and without Zr and Ag

    Chihiro Watanabe;Ryoichi Monzen;Kazue Tazaki

  • Patent statistics: deciphering a ‘real’ versus a ‘pseudo’ proxy of innovation

    Chihiro Watanabe;Youichirou S. Tsuji;Charla Griffy-Brown

  • Japanese and US perspectives on the National Innovation Ecosystem

    Kayano Fukuda;Chihiro Watanabe;Chihiro Watanabe

  • Systems option for sustainable development—effect and limit of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's efforts to substitute technology for energy

    Chihiro Watanabe

  • Promoting industrial development through technology policy: Lessons from Japan and China

    Peilei Fan;Chihiro Watanabe

  • Global technology spillover and its impact on industry's R&D strategies

    Chihiro Watanabe;Bing Zhu;Charla Griffy-Brown;Behrooz Asgari

  • Co-evolution between streaming and live music leads a way to the sustainable growth of music industry – Lessons from the US experiences

    Kashif Naveed;Chihiro Watanabe;Chihiro Watanabe;Pekka Neittaanmäki

  • Towards a local learning (innovation) model of solar photovoltaic deployment

    Kwok Leung Shum;Chihiro Watanabe

  • Co-evolution of three mega-trends nurtures un-captured GDP – Uber's ride-sharing revolution

    Chihiro Watanabe;Chihiro Watanabe;Kashif Naveed;Pekka Neittaanmäki

  • Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development

    Chihiro Watanabe

  • Competitive advantage in an industry cluster: The case of Dalian Software Park in China

    Weilin Zhao;Chihiro Watanabe;Charla Griffy-Brown

  • Trends in the substitution of production factors to technology—empirical analysis of the inducing impact of the energy crisis on Japanese industrial

    Chihiro Watanabe

  • An innovation management approach for renewable energy deployment―the case of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology

    Kwok Leung Shum;Kwok Leung Shum;Chihiro Watanabe;Chihiro Watanabe

  • Consolidated challenge to social demand for resilient platforms- lessons from Uber's global expansion

    Chihiro Watanabe;Chihiro Watanabe;Kashif Naveed;Pekka Neittaanmäki;Brenda Fox

  • Photovoltaic deployment strategy in Japan and the USA—an institutional appraisal☆

    Kwok L. Shum;Chihiro Watanabe

  • Identification of the role of renewable energy. A view from Japan's challenge: the New Sunshine Program

    Chihiro Watanabe

  • Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan

    Chihiro Watanabe

  • A new paradox of the digital economy - Structural sources of the limitation of GDP statistics

    Chihiro Watanabe;Chihiro Watanabe;Yuji Tou;Pekka Neittaanmäki

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiromi Miura
Hiromi Miura Toyohashi University of Technology
Koichi Tsuchiya
Koichi Tsuchiya National Institute for Materials Science
Nobuhiro Tsuji
Nobuhiro Tsuji Kyoto University
Yoshihiro Hamakawa
Yoshihiro Hamakawa Osaka University

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