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Kohei Nishiyama (born in 1970- ), is a Japanese entrepreneur and Representative Director of ELEPHANT DESIGN HOLDINGS, a company that he founded in 1997.
| Born | 1970（age 53 - 54）Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
|---|---|
| Education | The University of Tokyo |
| Occupations | Entrepreneur, Producer |
Early life and career
[編集]Born in 1970 in Hyogo Prefecture -Japan. He spent his early years in Colombia before returning to Japan and enrolling in the University of Tokyo. While studying at the Faculty of Liberal Arts there, he started a custom bag business and studied industrial design at Kuwasawa Design School.
After graduating from the university, he worked at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company before founding ELEPHANT DESIGN. Attributed for launching user-friendly commerce productivity community site "CUUSOO Life.", aim at creating a new social system where users’ innovations attract peers and are rewarded with royalties.
1997: Nishiyama founded Elephant Design and started CUUSOO Appliances (later CUUSOO Life, currently known as CUUSOO.COM).
2002- : Nishiyama has served as a judge for the Good Design Award.
2005: Nishiyama was selected as one of the "US-Japan Innovators" by The Japan Society, based in New York, with a 100-year history.
2007: Nishiyama was selected as one of The Young Global Leaders (YGL) by The World Economic Forum (WEF), which organizes the Davos conference, and in 2008, he became a member of The Global Agenda Council (GAC).
Nishiyama started the LEGO CUUSOO service with LEGO.
2010: Nishiyama was appointed a committee member of the Cabinet Office’s "Special Research Committee for Strengthening Competitiveness and International Standardization through Intellectual Property" and a selection committee member for World Design Capital 2014 by The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid).
2010: Nishiyama became a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA).
2011: Nishiyama was elected as a board member of The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid).
2012: Nishiyama became a director of the Japan Institute of Design Promotion and member of the Japan Industrial Designers' Association. Additionally, he was appointed an advisor to the user innovation project JOIN.dk, initiated by the Danish government.
2013: Nishiyama became the CEO of CUUSOO SYSTEM, which spun off as a subsidiary from Elephant Design (now Elephant Design Holdings).
2014: Nishiyama was selected as one of the Most Creative People in Business 1000 by FastCompany.
Nishiyama teaches a class every year at the Yale School of Management.
Researches
[編集]- May 1998, he co-authored the report "1997 Fiscal Year Research Report on the Distribution and Assetization of Intellectual Property" for the Japan Machinery Federation, alongside two other authors.
- May 1999 issue of SD, he authored "Application Design of Materials: The ABCs for Designers to Apply Materials."
- February 2000, he co-authored the report "Development Of Group Ordering System For Customized Industrial Products" for the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), alongside one other author.
- December 2021, isssue of Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy Volume 10(Issue 3) 274-293, "Co-creation and Personalization as Incentive Mechanisms of Utilizing External Innovation Sources: Which Performs Better?" Lee, Sangjic, Nishiyama, Kohei, Kimita,Koji, Nishino,Nariaki
- January 2022 issue of SSRN Electronic Journal, "Change in Intrinsic Motivation with Activity Progress: A Lego Building Laboratory Experiment" Takahashi Hiroki, Tatsuya Ito, Kohei Nishiyama, Nariaki Nishino
- January 2023 issue of The Human Side of Service Engineering, "Game Theoretic Modeling of User Innovation and Venture M&A Processes" Sangjic Lee, Kohei Nishiyama, Nariaki Nishino
Awarded
[編集]- In October 1998, he received the Chairman's Award at the 1st Venture Fair Japan '98, organized by the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
- In October 2000, his custom-made industrial product system "Kuusou Seikatsu" received the Good Design Award in the New Frontier Design category from the Japan Institute of Design Promotion. The theme was "A New Business Model Changing the Manufacturing Process."
- In April 2001, he received the Entrepreneurial Division Award at the National Forum for Entrepreneurship and Ventures, sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, and the Japan Productivity Center.
- In May 2001, he received the 9th Kuwasawa Award for his custom-made industrial product system "Kuusou Seikatsu."
- In September 2001, he was awarded the Japan Society of Kansei Engineering Award.
Book
[編集]Management of an Online Platform: Designing Mechanisms to Encourage User Participation -Only in Japanese
Linkes
[編集]- https://elephantdesignholdings.com/en/#top -ELEPHANT DESIGN HOLDINGS
- https://cuusoo.co.jp/ -CUUSOO SYSTEM