Dr. Mitsuru Kodama is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Media Innovation in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Jissen Women’s University, and Professor Emeritus at Nihon University. He has published 19 books in English – including Collaborative Dynamic Capabilities for Service Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Competing Through ICT Capability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), – and articles in several international scholarly journals. Prior to working in academia, he was working as a project leader at NTT and NTT DoCoMo for around 20 years. In 2003 he received an R&D 100 Award in R&D Magazine in US.