This paper examines the knowledge creation process that takes place in a group of superstar innovators. How does a superstar innovator influence the generation of knowledge in a team? In particular, does the effect increase nonlinearly as the number of talented team members increases? We explore...

Since the second half of the 1990s, the decline in academic standards in mathematics and science among undergraduate students in Japan has been noted. Despite this, problems in science education have become increasingly severe, and their impact is having a mounting effect on Japan’s economy....

In this paper, we examined the impact of changes in the content of science learning on the formation of personal capacity and on the competitiveness of workers in the labor market, by analyzing data on the incomes of university graduates. In order to analyze the impact of changes in the...

This paper aims to verify how discipline affects a person's value in the labor market by examining the effect of the discipline a person received in his/her childhood on the labor income he/she gets as an adult. The analysis shows that one's value in the labor market is greatly affected by four...

This paper reviews the annual income difference between science graduates and arts graduates by using data from the <i>Japan Household Panel Survey</i> (JHPS) designed by the Keio University Joint Research Center for Panel Studies. The results of the study show that the average annual income of science...

This paper examines all types of admissions systems currently in place in Japan, and evaluates their relative performance in the labor market using graduate income. In particular, by comparing the relative performance of admission systems requiring academic testing against that of those that do...