Mitsuru Kodama is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management in the College of Commerce and Graduate School of Business Administration at Nihon University, Japan. Prior to joining the University he worked in marketing and as a planning engineer at KDD, NTT and NTT DoCoMo in Japan. He holds a BSc., an MSc. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Waseda University, Japan. Professor Kodama has written seven books and over eighty refereed papers on business and management topics. He has received R&D 100 Awards in US and three Emerald Highly Commended Awards for his contributions to journals in the USA and Europe and he sits on several editorial boards.