Profile

Contact Information

Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi Tokyo 186-8603, JAPAN
E-mail: nakajima.kentaro(at)gmail.com
Tel: +81-42-580-8417

Current Positions

Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (March 2017-)
Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (April 2017-)
Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo, (June 2012-)

Research Fields

Spatial Economics and Applied Microeconometrics

Past Positions

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (April 2011 - March 2017)
Associate Professor (term), Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (April 2010 - March 2011)
Associate Professor (term), Endowed Chair in Regional Economy and Banking (The 77 Bank), Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (April 2008 - March 2010)
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (April 2007 - March 2008)

Past Visiting Positions

Visiting Researcher, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (April 2016-March 2017)
Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Research Advancement, (October 2014- September 2016)
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, (April 2013- March 2014)
Visiting Associate Professor, CIRJE, the University of Tokyo (April 2012 - July 2012)
Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, (June 2011 - March 2013)
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (April 2011 - March 2012)

Professional Experience

Consultant, Measuring the Developing Effectiveness of Private Sector Operations, Asian Development Bank, (February 2019-)
Member, Research Project Meeting on productivity growth, Japan Productivity Center, (March 2011 -)
Member, Research Project Meetings, Research Insitute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), (October 2008 -)
Consultant, Developing the Approaches to Improve Methodology of the Subsistence Minimum Determination in Kazakhstan, International Labor Organization, (April 2011-December 2011)
Member, Research Project Meeting on Economic Integration in East Asia and Development in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, (August 2010 - March 2011)

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, the University of Tokyo, March 2008
M.A. in Economics, the University of Tokyo, March 2005
B.A. in Economics, the University of Tokyo, March 2003

Teaching

Hitotsubashi University
- Foundations of Business Economics (Undergraduate, 2019, 2020)
- Economic Analysis of Innovation (Graduate, 2017, 2019, & 2020)
- Network Organization (Graduate, 2017)
- Introductory Business Economics (Undergraduate, 2017)
- Regional Development (Graduate, 2010)
Tohoku University
- Applied Microeconometrics (Graduate, 2018 & 2020)
- Introductory Economics (Undergraduate, 2016)
- Economics (Liberal Arts) (Undergraduate, 2015 x2)
- Introductory Mathematics for Economics and Business (Undergraduate, 2013)
- Development Economics (Graduate, 2011, 2013, 2015, & 2017; Undergraduate, 2012, 2014, & 2016)
- Regional Economics (Graduate, 2008 & 2009)
- Urban Economics (Undergraduate, 2009)
Tohoku Gakuin University
- Urban Economics (Undergraduate, 2013 & 2014)
Tsukuba University
- Urban and Regional Economics (Graduate, 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013)

Grants

Principal Investigator
- Research Grant, Kajima Foundation (April 2020 - March 2021)
- Research Grant for International Joint Research, Heiwa Nakajima Foundation (April 2020 - March 2021)
- Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), JSPS (July 2017 - March 2020)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2017 - March 2021)
- Research Grant, The Murata Science Foundation (October 2016 - October 2017)
- Research Grant, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (August 2015 - March 2016)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JSPS (April 2013 - March 2017)
- Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), JSPS (May 2011 - March 2013)
- Research Grant, The Kikawada Foundation (April 2011 - March 2013)
- Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), JSPS (April 2009 - March 2011)
- Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2), JSPS (April 2007 - March 2008)
Co-Investigator (kyodo-kenkyusha & renkei-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2020 - March 2024), (PI: Dao-Zhi Zeng), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2020 - March 2024), (PI: Tatsuhito Kono), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS (April 2019 - March 2024), (PI: Tetsuji Okazaki), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS (April 2019 - March 2023), (PI: Kozo Kiyota), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2017 - March 2021), (PI: Yoshihiro Yajima), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2017 - March 2020), (PI: Dao-Zhi Zeng), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2017 - March 2020), (PI: Tatsuhito Kono), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JSPS (April 2017 - March 2020), (PI: Tsuyoshi Tsuru), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS (April 2016 - March 2020), (PI: Kozo Kiyota), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2016 - March 2020), (PI: Satoru Masuda), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2015 - March 2020), (PI: Ryo Horii), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2015 - March 2019), (PI: Yoshitsugu Kanemoto), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JSPS (April 2015 - March 2018), (PI: Hiroyasu Inoue), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS (April 2014 - March 2017), (PI: Masahisa Fujita), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2014 - March 2018), (PI: Tatsuhito Kono), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2014 - March 2017), (PI: Tsuyoshi Tsuru), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), JSPS (April 2013 - March 2018), (PI: Iichiro Uesugi), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2012 - March 2016), (PI: Shiro Hioki), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JSPS (April 2012 - March 2014), (PI: Hiroyasu Inoue), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2011 - March 2014), (PI: Yoshitsugu Kanemoto), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2010 - March 2014), (PI: Dao-Zhi Zeng), (kyodo-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), JSPS (April 2016 - March 2021), (PI: Kyoji Fukao), (renkei-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), JSPS (April 2010 - March 2015), (PI: Takashi Kurosaki), (renkei-kenkyusha)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (April 2009 - March 2013), (PI: Tetsuji Okazaki), (renkei-kenkyusha)

Awards

The Sakashita Prize, Applied Regional Science Conference, 2015

Professional Affiliations

Regional Science Association International
Japanese Economic Association
- Program committee of Autumn Meeting, September 2014
Applied Regional Science Conference
- Steering committee, April 2020 – March 2022
- Program committee (Chair) of Annual Conference, December 2019
- Program committee of Annual Conference, December 2016
- Program committee of Annual Conference, December 2014
- Steering committee, April 2014 – March 2018
Socio-Economic History Society

Editorial Activities

Editorial Board, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, February 2017-
Editorial Board, Hitotsubashi Business Review, April 2017-