Hiroshi Shimizu

Hiroshi Shimizu (born May 29, 1973) is a Japanese management scholar, specializing in innovation and entreprenuership research. He is currently a professor at the School of Commerce, Waseda University. Career Shimizu was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1973. He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University in 1997 and went on to study for a Master's degree in Commerce at Hitotsubashi University, where he completed his studies in 1999. He studied at Northwestern University's School of History during his PhD studies and completed his MA at Northwestern University's History Department in 2002; from 2004 he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he obtained his Ph.D in 2007 (Economic History). After working as a post-doctoral fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology, he became a full-time lecturer at the Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University in 2008. Associate Professor in 2011 and Professor in 2017 at the same school. Professor, School of Commerce and Management, Waseda University, in 2012.