Mr. Akira Goto

Akira Goto is a Professor of Economic Engineering at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University. His main research areas are the economics of innovation and competition policy.

Previously, Professor Goto was a Director at the Research Center for Advanced Economic Engineering of the University of Tokyo, a Professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, and a Director in Research at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy in the Science and Technology Agency.

Professor Goto has served on various national and international government committees dealing with technology policy and competition policy. Among other positions, he is currently the chairman of the Patent System Subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and a Faculty Fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Professor Goto has published in such journals as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Economic Literature, and Research Policy. He has also published several books, including Innovation and Industrial Organization in Japan (Tokyo University Press), and, with Hiroyuki Odagiri, Technology and Industrial Development in Japan (Oxford University Press), as well as editing several books on innovation and competition policy.