Rate My Professor Kathryn Ibata-Arens

Major publications include Pandemic Medicine: Why the Global Innovation System Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021), Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia (Stanford University Press, 2019), and Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Politics, Organizations, and High Technology Firms (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Vincent de Paul Professorship, Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Grant (2008), Fulbright New Century Scholar at Ritsumeikan University (2009-2010), Mike Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Fellow (2010-2011), SSRC-Japan Foundation Abe Fellow (2005-2006), JSPS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2002), and Fulbright Doctoral Fellowships. Ibata-Arens has served as visiting researcher at RIETI (2012), Kyoto University (2010), CSIS Japan Policy Fellow (2008), and on the METI-State Department Japan-US Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council (2012-2013). She serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan-America Society of Chicago and is a member of the U.S.-Japan Council. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Asian Business and Management, Prometheus, and Enterprise & Society, influencing discussions on regional innovation systems and cluster culture.