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First year master’s students, Mr. Fujino and Mr. Yamato were assigned to Prof. Inoue’s laboratory. 
Two students are also doing research which takes computational scientific approach related to society, as well as Prof. Inoue’s laboratory’s previous research.

Prof. Inoue commented that, though there might be some difficulties in guidance due to online seminar, he is willing to lead them with expecting  dignity of Mr. Yamada, a second year master’s student as a senior.

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Prof. Inoue was adopted to research project about COVID-19, which University of Hyogo made a public offering.

Prof. Inoue’s research related to economic influence by COVID-19 have already been supported by many institutions such as Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, but this budget support by the university can promote further research more.

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Prof. Inoue was invited to Mason Online Pandemic Modeling Forum, and had a presentation, titled “The propagation of the economic impact through supply chains: The case of a mega-city lockdown against the spread of COVID-19”. 

Prof. Inoue was honored to be directly invited by Prof. Robert Axtell, a leading figure in his field.

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Prof. Inoue’s paper, coauthored by Prof. Iino from Niigata University, Prof. Saito and Prof. Todo from Waseda University, was published on The Japanese Economic Review.
This research with using world patent data, reveals what kind of network is behind when firms make more valuable inventions or contrivances, by using econometric way.

You can access to the paper from the link below. 
This is an open access.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42973-020-00042-y

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Prof. Inoue was interviewed by a public relations officer from University  of Hyogo. It was published as an article on Website of the university.
The interview was mainly about his research related economic impact by COVID-19.

 You can access to the article from the link below.

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Fujitsu Journal featured research using the Fugaku supercomputer to study the societal effects of COVID-19.

RIKEN, working with Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, made part of Fugaku available ahead of its planned launch for shared use in fiscal 2021 to support the response to the pandemic. Fugaku was jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu.

Hiroyasu Inoue contributed economic simulations using Fugaku as part of a team led by Nobuyasu Ito at RIKEN.

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Our research group has been building a patent bibliographic database to study innovation in prewar Japan. A paper describing the database construction method and presenting descriptive analyses has been published in RIETI’s Policy Discussion Paper Series.

RIETI is the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, an incorporated administrative agency under Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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The May 6, 2020 morning edition of Kobe Shimbun featured our research on its front page. The article covered our use of Fugaku to estimate the economic effects of requests to restrict activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research Featured on the Front Page of Kobe Shimbun — photo 1

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Nikkei featured a research initiative using Fugaku to investigate the societal effects of COVID-19. Led by Nobuyasu Ito at RIKEN, the team examined these effects from multiple perspectives, using the supercomputer to support its analyses.

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