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Managing Innovation in Japan

The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology

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  1. Chihiro Watanabe
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  • First attempt to identify the characterization process of technology by comparing its development trajectory between manufacturing technology and information technology
  • Special attention is focused on the elucidation of the role of institutional systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 1-2

  3. Formation of IT Features through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 3-30

  4. Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 31-56

  5. A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 57-80

  6. Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism between Learning and Diffusion of Technology

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 81-102

  7. Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 103-134

  8. The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 135-158

  9. Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firm

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 159-177

  10. Technological Diversification Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 179-209

  11. Japan’s Coevolutionary Dynamism between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management Fusing East and West

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 211-231

  12. Conclusion

    • Chihiro Watanabe
    Pages 233-247
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This book summarizes highlights of the investigation of “An Elucidation of the Role of Institutional Systems in Characterizing Technology Development Trajectories – A Global Comparative Analysis of Manufacturing Technology and Information Te- nology in the Enhancement of Business Practice” supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scienti?c Research (S) by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Japan Society for Science Policy over the period 2002–2006. Background and objectives of the investigation are summarized as follows: (a) Japan ranks far below the level of the USA with respect to the development and utilization of information technology (IT) in the information society that emerged in the 1990s. (b) This can be attributed toa vicious cycle between Japan’s non-elastic institutions, insuf?cient utilization of the potential bene?ts of IT, and economic stagnation. (c) The source of such a vicious cycle can be derived from the fundamental d- ferences of the characterizing process of technology between manufacturing technology (MT) and IT during their diffusion processes. This investigation - tempted to elucidate this mechanism. Noteworthy ?ndings obtained include: (a) MT has been developed largely by the supply side and its functionality is - tablished during the stage of its supply to the market. In contrast, IT is strongly driven by the demand side and its functionality is created through diffusion in a self-propagating way. This contrast can be clearly observed in the dramatic advancement of Japan’s mobile phone industry in the late 1990s.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Innovation in Japan

  • Book Subtitle: The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology

  • Authors: Chihiro Watanabe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89272-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-89271-7Published: 12 March 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-10038-3Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-89272-4Published: 21 April 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: R & D/Technology Policy, Computers and Society, IT in Business

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