Five UC Berkeley MOT faculty members are taking turns writing a column for each issue of Nikkei BizTech/MOT, which is published every other month. Contributors include MOT’s Executive Director Andrew Isaacs, Professor Emeritus and research director Robert Cole, Executive Director of the Open Innovation Center Henry Chesbrough, MOT Lecturer Jihong Sanderson, and Engineering Professor Paul Wright.

The first three issues of the new magazine were published this summer, with articles written by Paul Wright on advances in manufacturing, Jihong Sanderson on management of technology in China, and Henry Chesbrough on open innovation.

Nikkei just renewed its contract with UC Berkeley’s MOT Program through the end of 2005. UC Berkeley is the only university in the US represented in this dominant Japanese medium through a regular column.

The recent boom in management of technology programs in Japan has resulted in over 70 MOT programs nationwide, up from just a handful five years ago. UC Berkeley’s MOT Program regularly advises Japanese universities on how to create Management of Technology centers, modeled on UC Berkeley's thriving partnership between the Haas School of Business, the College of Engineering, and the School of Information Management and Systems.