JETS
University of Edinburgh
Old Surgeons' Hall
High School Yards
Edinburgh
EH1 1LZ
Scotland
UK

Tel +44 131 650 2450
M.Fransman@ed.ac.uk

Martin Fransman is Professor of Economics and Founder-Director of the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies (JETS) at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of numerous books and articles, including: ·

The Market and Beyond: Information Technology in Japan (Cambridge University Press) which won the Masayoshi Ohira Prize, ·

Japan's Computer and Communications Industry (Oxford University Press), and · Visions of Innovation (Oxford University Press) ·

Telecoms in the Internet Age: From boom to bust to…? (Oxford University Press

He has been Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at Tokyo University where he held the NTT Chair of Telecommunications, at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the University of Nice, France. He is currently a visiting fellow at ICER, University of Turin, Italy. He has worked with numerous governments and international organisations as well as with leading telecoms companies such as AT&T, BT, France Telecom, NTT, Ericsson, Siemens, NEC and Fujitsu. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences organised by bodies such as the Financial Times, the US Library of Congress, the International Computer Communications Conference (ICCC), the IEEE, and the International Telecommunications Society (ITS).

Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS)
Waseda University
Bldg.29-7
1-3-10 Nishi-Waseda
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo
169-0051
Japan

kanos@waseda.jp

Sadahiko Kano is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies (JETS) at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He also serves as Professor at the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS) at Waseda University, Japan. He has an engineering background with 27 years of research and development (R&D) activities at NTT's laboratories and 5 years of network planning responsibilities at NTT Headquarters in Tokyo as its Senior Vice President. He has also been involved for the past 20 years in international standardization activities at the ITU in Geneva, serving as Chairman of a Working Party (1980-1988) and a Study Group (1989-2000), which standardized Signalling System No.7, ISDN, Intelligent Networks and most recently, networking standards for the 3rd Generation Mobile Systems.

Programming Electronic Switching Systems, IEE Telecommunications Series 3, Peter Peregrinus Ltd, UK, 1976

ISDN User-Network Interface Protocol, Chapter 4 of "ISDN Systems", Prentice-Hall, USA, 1990 (in English)

Guest Editor, Special Issue: "Marching Toward the Global Intelligent Network", IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1993

His research interests expanded to cover the interaction of technology and business/society and he has written the following papers:

The Telecommunications Market in Japan: Entering the Digital Era and the Second Phase of Competition, IEEE Communications Magazine, November 1998

Technical Innovations, Standardization and Regional Comparison: A case study in mobile communications, Telecommunications Policy Journal 24(4), May 2000

Convergence of Telecommunications and Broadcasting: Technological Changes and Standardization Convergence of Telecommunications and Broadcasting in Japan, United Kingdom and Germany (Edited by Kiyoshi Nakamura and Koichiro Agata), Curzon Press, 2001, pp. 113-118.

From 2001, his research area was further expanded to cover applications of ICT to healthcare and medical care. He has written the following papers in this area:

Tim Bolt, Sadahiko Kano, Akihisa Kodate, "Emerging Market for Mobile Remote Physiological Monitoring", IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Section on Human Communication I, Vol.E87-D, No.6, June 2004, pages 1446 ? 1453

Steve Zurcher, Sadahiko Kano "Two Hospital Case Studies of Advanced Deployments of Information Technology: Indiana Heart Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana USA and Kameda Hospital in Chiba, Japan" American Telemedicine Association Ninth Annual Meeting and Exposition, May 2-5, 2004, Tampa Florida, USA.

BOLT, Timothy; KANO, Sadahiko. "Networked Technologies & Messaging for the Community-Based Care of the Elderly". International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 2007, Vol.8 No.3/4. pp.175-195

He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1967, a Master of Science degree from the University of Essex, UK, in 1974 and a PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1979.

Planning Commission Chair Professor in Development Economics
Centre for Development Studies
Prasantha Nagar Road
Ulloor
Trivandrum-695581
Kerala
India

Tel +91-471-2448881; Extension 204
Fax +91-471-2447137

Dr. Mani, is Planning Commission Chair Professor in Development Economics at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. Until September 2004, he was a member of the faculty at the United Nations University-Institute for New Technologies at Maastricht in the Netherlands He obtained his M.Phil and Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and has done postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford on a fellowship from the Ford Foundation, New York. He has also been a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo. Dr. Mani's research focus is on indicators of innovation and public innovation policies in developing countries, and innovation capability in telecommunications equipment industry. He is the outgoing Head of the Graduate Studies Programme at UNU-INTECH (1998 to June 2003). He was also the co-ordinator of the Institute's post- experience training programme on "Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policies in Developing Countries". Dr. Mani is a member of the Ministry of Science and Technology's (Government of India) Experts Committee on Innovation Surveys. He is currently a consultant to the National Advisory Council on Innovation (of the Republic of South Africa, the United Nations for preparing the 2007 TCPR assessment of the capacity development efforts of the UN Development system in the area of National Technological Development and to the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) as part of its Expert Group on Innovation. Professor Mani is visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad (PGP- Public Management and Policy) . He also serves on the editorial boards of three international journals Research Policy (Elsevier), International Journal of Technology and Globalization (Inderscience), and Science Technology and Society (Sage Publications). He also teaches at the annual Globelics Academy (summer school for PhD scholars working on innovation studies (orgnised alternatively by University of Tampere, Finland and Lisbon Technical University, Lisbon, Portugal). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad.

Dr. Mani has published extensively in his area of specialisation and is currently working on two new books. The first is a second edition of the book "Government, Innovation and Technology Policy" (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar) due to be published in 2008. The second book: "Innovation Capabilities in Developing Countries: A Study of the Telecommunications Industry" (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar) is due to be published in 2008.

School of Economics and Management
Tsinghua University

Professor Gao, Xudong is on the faculty of the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, and is also a senior research follow at the Tsinghua University Research Center for Technological Innovation. He offers courses such as Strategic Management, Technology Strategy, and High Tech Entrepreneurship. His major research interests are in strategic management and management of technological innovation, especially in the industries of telecommunications, oil, automobile, and consumer electronics. He is currently leading several studies on indigenous technological capability development and the unique characteristics of strategic management at local firms in China.

He holds a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a MA from the Renmin University of China, and a BE from the Harbin Institute of Technology.

School of Management
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
UK

Tel +44 131 650 2453
T.Bolt@ed.ac.uk

Tim Bolt is a Research Associate with the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies (JETS) at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is currently based full-time at the University of Southampton as a Research Fellow on the Research Into Global Healthcare Tools (RIGHT) project. His research interests include process improvement, the application of telecare and the management of personal data in care service delivery.

Prior to this he worked with Professor Kano at GITS, Waseda University for 5½ years on ICT for coordinating health and social care services. The focus was on improving community-based care service for older people through the provision of telecare and care-coordination information exchange platforms the UK and Japan. While a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS) of Waseda University, he also served as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Tim originally joined JETS full-time as a Research Associate on the Corporate Governance of Telecoms New Entrants project. His work as JETS and GITS build on studies of mobile phone data applications and content. Past projects include comparison of Telecommunications Regulation regulatory reforms and local loop access issues.

Journal Publications:

Bolt, T., Kano, S. and Kodate, A. (2007). "Information Quality in At-Home Care Coordination Services." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol. 13, Supp. 1, 7-9.

Bolt, T. and Kano, S. (2007). "Networked Technologies and Messaging for the Community-Based Care of the Elderly." International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, Vol. 8, No. 3/4, 175-195.

Bolt, T., Kano, S. and Kodate, A. (2004). "Emerging Market for Mobile Remote Physiological Monitoring Services." IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems: Special Issue on Human Communications, Vol. E87-D, No. 6, 1446-1453.

JETS
University of Edinburgh
Old Surgeons' Hall
High School Yards
Edinburgh
EH1 1LZ
Scotland
UK.

Tel +44 131 650 2453
Ian.Duff@ed.ac.uk

1312 Marina Circle
Davis, CA 95616
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Shoko Tanaka is a Research Associate with the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies (JETS) at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

She has written papers and articles on Japanese Political Economy and is currently Principal and Consultant with ST Research.

Shoko played an important role in the establishment of JETS when she worked in Japan with Professor Fransman in getting sponsorship from the Japanese Government and Japanese companies.

M.A. in International Relations and Foreign Studies, Sophia University,Tokyo
M.A. in International Relations and Comparative Politics, Cornell University. U.S.