YARIME Masaru received B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in Japan, and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in the United States. He studied in the MERIT-UNU/INTECH Ph.D. Programme on the Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change and received his Ph.D. from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He worked as Research Associate at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) of the University of Tokyo and as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

He has been involved in the research and educational activities of the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS), Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), and Graduate Program in Sustainability Science (GPSS) at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences of the University of Tokyo. He has conducted research on the effects of environmental regulation on technological change in the chemical industry and network analysis of university-industry collaboration for green innovation. His current research interests include corporate strategy, public policy, and institutional design for sustainability innovation, and creation, diffusion, and utilization of scientific and technological data, information, and knowledge for innovation.

Yarime, Masaru, "Promoting Green Innovation or Prolonging the Existing Technology: Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technological Change in the Chlor-Alkali Industry in Japan and Western Europe," Journal of Industrial Ecology, 11 (4), 117-139 (2007).
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