About the author

Name

Takahiro (Taka) Inada

I'm currently working as a researcher in the field of management.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Technology management, Management science, Research method,

Platform business, Start-up companies, Place creation

Short biography

Nara's National University Elementary School

→ Nara's integrated junior high and high school (abbreviated as TDJ)

→ Kyoto University (Faculty of Integrated Human Studies)

→ University of Tokyo (Graduate School of Economics, Master)

→ Again, Kyoto University (Graduate School of Economics, Doctoral Program)

Research projects

Single author No.1

・Keywords.

Entrepreneurial process, entrepreneurial actions, platform business, longitudinal case studies, Founder's stance

・Research question

RQ1: What are the actions that make the difference between success and failure in launching a platform business?
RQ2: Why were the founders able to take that action? What is the factor that separates whether an action can be executed or not?

・Data

Multi-wave interview with the founders of two platform startups (success and failure cases)

・Analytical method

Chronology of events, Qualitative data analysis

・Tool

MaxQDA

Single Author No.2

・Keywords

Platform business, entrepreneurial process, longitudinal case studies, comparative case studies

・Research question

How and where does a platform business differ from a conventional business (i.e., pipeline business)?

・Data

Multi-wave interview with founders of four platforms and four non-platform early-stage startups (once every four to six months)

・Analytical method

Chronology of events, Qualitative data analysis

・Tool

MaxQDA

Single Author No.3 (with Mr. Tumasjan, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

・Keywords

Platform business, blockchain technology, longitudinal case study, advanced case

・Research question

How can platform businesses be updated by blockchain technology?

・Data

Multi-wave interview with a founder of a blockchain startup (once every four to six months)

・Analytical method

Chronology of events, Qualitative data analysis

・Tool

MaxQDA

Co-author No.0 (with Mr. Horio, Kobe University)

・Keywords

Entrepreneurial learning, vicarious learning, managerial principle, newspaper article, text mining

・Research question

What do entrepreneurs learn from others and how do they apply it to their businesses?

・Data

Interviews with about 100 entrepreneurs extracted from the Nikkei Newspaper's "Human Discovery" series (25 years from 1995) (using the Nikkei Telecon).

・Analytical method

Text mining

・Tool

KH Coder

Co-author No.1 (with Mr. Inamizu, University of Tokyo)

・Keywords

Platform Business, C to C platform, Platform governance, Agent-Based Simulation (ABS)

・Research question

What is the optimal governance in a platform? (Development of single author 1)

・Data

None

・Analytical method

ABS

・Tool

artisoc

Co-author No.2 (with Mr. Okumura, UCLA)

・Keywords

Superstar companies, platform businesses, knowledge diffusion, macro economics and management, international comparisons

・Research question

How will the proliferation of industrial IoT platforms affect the distribution of productivity in manufacturing companies?

・Data

BVD Orbis

・Analytical method

Statistical analysis, formal model

・Tool

Python

Practical project

・Academic Dialogue Group in Kyoto and Tokyo (with Mr. Nagaoka, Kyoto University)

https://acadan-kyoto.hatenablog.com/

・Update on household management (with Ms. Inada)

Keywords such as digitalization (e.g., cloud computing), family business and entrepreneurship, continuity of work and life, and local community

・Internship (with a monozukuri-specialized venture capital  based in Kyoto)

Research and dissemination (e.g., webinar) of start-up processes for hardware unicorn companies and antecedents of venture capital syndication formation

・Also

As for extracurricular activities, I have participated in a business plan competition using unused university patents and won a prize, participated in a hackathon with friends and won a prize, and interned at an asset management company and a venture capital (VC) company. I am trying to share the experiences and perspectives of entrepreneurs and investors who are involved in the venture business. To begin with, some researchers are like entrepreneurs or sole proprietors.

Achievements

Inada (2018). "A description of the helping process in business start-up", Presented at the annual meeting of Japan Academic Societies for Venture and Entrepreneurs.

Inada (2019). "Businesses Nurtured in Relationships: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Founding Process of Three Companies", Presented at the annual meeting of Academic Associations for Organizational Science.

Inada (2019). "Business development through interpersonal interaction: A longitudinal case study of three nascent community-building companies.", PDW co-organized by Academic Associations for Organizational Science and Asia Academy of Management.

Inada (2019). "Challenges for founders of early-stage platform businesses: a longitudinal case study of five startups in Japan.", Pre-Conference Graduate Workshop of the Kyoto Centennial Industry Dynamics Conference.

Inada (2020). "Value creation logic of platform businesses: A comparative case study of the founding process.", IIR Summer School.

Hobbies

・Animation (as art and business)

・Badminton (from junior high)

Acknowledgement

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