{"id":38555,"date":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/kanri-new\/center-information\/organizational-structure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:58:41","slug":"organization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/center\/organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizational Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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organization<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
QREC Steering Committee<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
QREC External Advisors Meeting<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

You can find more information about our teachers and instructors on the Teachers and Instructors page<\/a>, and about our staff on the Support and Consultation Services page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Summary<\/h2>\n\n

The Robert Huang Entrepreneurship Center is a joint education and research center within Kyushu University that conducts education and research related to entrepreneurship in order to nurture leaders who will actively challenge the creation of new value in all areas of society. It also aims to support creative research and development that can be the seeds of venture businesses. Fostering entrepreneurial human resources who will take on the challenge of high-impact social change and contributing to the production of innovative startups, centered on the Academic Research and Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Division and the Academy of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, and in collaboration with other regional ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n

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\"QREC<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Past Activities and Achievements<\/a><\/p>\n\n

QREC Steering Committee<\/h2>\n\n

QREC has established a Steering Committee to deliberate on matters related to education and research under the control of the Center Director. The Steering Committee meets regularly and receives advice from the Steering Committee members.<\/p>\n\n

Committee Members<\/h3>\n\n
Director of QREC Center \/ Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Economics <\/th>Megumi Takata<\/td><\/tr>
Dean, Faculty of Humannvironment Studies<\/th>ZHAO SHICHEN<\/td><\/tr>
Dean, Graduate School of Engineering<\/th> Masaki Tanaka<\/td><\/tr>
Dean, Graduate School of Art and Design <\/th>Kenichi Tanoue<\/td><\/tr>
Dean, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering <\/th>Takanobu Kiss<\/td><\/tr>
Dean, Graduate School of Medicine<\/th> Nobuyuki Sudo<\/td><\/tr>
Director, Department of Industrial Management, Graduate School of Economics and Management<\/th> Takeshi Mokudai<\/td><\/tr>
Director, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences <\/th>Takeru Nose<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant General Manager, Academic Research and Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Division <\/th>Shinji Onishi<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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QREC External Advisors Meeting<\/h2>\n\n

QREC appoints advisors from among experts outside the university to provide guidance and advice on the operation of the Center. Advisor meetings are held as necessary to obtain advice on operations.<\/p>\n\n

Advisor Member<\/h3>\n\n
Founder and former Chairman of SYNNEX Corporation
Doctor Emeritus, Kyushu University <\/th>		Robert Huang<\/td><\/tr>
Professor, Stanford University
Director, Asia-U.S. Center for Technology Management Research<\/th>		Richard B. Dasher<\/td><\/tr>
Executive Officer, Senior General Manager of Group Business Development Division of Management Strategy Unit, J.FRONT RETAILING Co., Ltd.<\/th>Wakako Tokuda <\/td><\/tr>
President & representative director & &CEO, Healios K.K<\/th>Hardy TS Kagimoto<\/td><\/tr>
Founder & CEO, Reapra Pte Ltd.<\/th>Shuhei Morofuji<\/td><\/tr>
Professor, Faculty of Business Administration and Education, Kyoto University<\/th>Jin-ichiro YAMADA<\/td><\/tr>
Fukuoka Regional Strategy Promotion Council, Executive Director<\/th>Shuhei Ishimaru<\/td><\/tr>
Senior Advisor, KEARNEY<\/th>Takaaki Umezawa<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Babson College<\/th>Yasuhiro Yamakawa<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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You can find more information about our teachers and instructors on the Teachers and Instructors page, and about our staff on the Support and Consultation Services page. Summary The Robert Huang Entrepreneurship Center is a joint education and research center within Kyushu University that conducts education and research related to entrepreneurship in order to nurture leaders who will actively challenge the creation of new value in all areas of society. It also aims to support creative research and development that can be the seeds of venture businesses. Fostering entrepreneurial human resources who will take on the challenge of high-impact social change and contributing to the production of innovative startups, centered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2088,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38555","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38555"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47910,"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38555\/revisions\/47910"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qrec.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}