Managing innovation in Japan : the role institutions play in helping or hindering how companies develop technology

Chihiro Watanabe

Why do some country’s hi-tech firms innovate better than others? Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? Through a wealth of empirical evidence, the book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology both between Japanese companies and between companies based in the US, Europe, Australia, India and China. This book shows that institutional systems such as culture, tradition, consumers and local business practices play key roles in how companies develop technology. These factors also influence the very characteristics of the products that the hi-tech firms produce. With a number of case studies the author demonstrates how the most successful and innovative companies recognize these roles and incorporate them into their practices.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Watanabe, Chihiro
Publisher:	Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
Subject:	Japan \| Innovationsmanagement \| Innovation management \| Institutionelle Infrastruktur \| Institutional infrastructure \| Unternehmen \| Technologiemanagement
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [d-nb.info]

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Extent:	XII, 247 S.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Literaturangaben CONTENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Formation of IT Features Through Interaction with InstitutionalSystems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Features of IT with Respect to Institutions; 2.3 Implications; 2.4 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Mathematical Development of Logistic Growth Function Within a Dynamic Carrying Capacity; Appendix 2 Data Construction and Sources; Appendix 3 Mathematical Development of SCE; References; 3 Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT FunctionalityDevelopment; 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Identification of IT Features with Respect to Institutions3.3 Implications; 3.4 Conclusion; Appendix. Data Construction and Sources; Appendix 1. TFP and IT Intensity; Appendix 2 Epidemic Behavior; References; 4 A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Substitution Orbit of Competitive Innovations; 4.3 Lotka-Volterra Equations for Predator-Prey Systems; 4.4 Orbit for Substitution: Policy Option in a Complex Orbit; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 Impacts of Functionality Development on DynamismBetween Learning and Diffusion of Technology; 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Dynamic Behavior of Learning Coefficient5.3 Learning and Diffusion of Technology; 5.4 Institutional Dynamism Leading to a Dynamic InteractionBetween Learning, Diffusion and Spillover of Technology; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6 Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICTMarket: A Case of Japan; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Methodology; 6.3 Diffusion and Substitution Process of ICT in Japan: EmpiricalAnalysis with Diffusion and Substitution Models; 6.4 Conclusion; References 7 The Co-Evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A Market Dominated by High-End Handsets Due to High Learning Effec; 7.3 A Market Dominated by Order-Made Models Due to CloseCooperation Between Vendors and Operators; 7.4 A Virtuous Cycle Between Demand and Supply Sides DrivingJapan's Co-Evolutionary Mobile-Driven Innovationsand Institutions; 7.5 Conclusions; References; 8 Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarizationof Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan's Leading Firms 8.1 Introduction8.2 Co-Evolutionary Dynamism Between Mobile Phone DrivenInnovation and Institutional Systems: Cumulative LearningLeading to Creating New Functionality; 8.3 Transformation in Entrepreneurial Contour in Leading Firms Facing the Transition to a Post Information Society: Output-Oriented R&D Based on External Acquisition; 8.4 Conclusion; References; 9 Technological Diversification: Strategic TrajectoryLeading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resourcesin Innovation: A Case of Canon; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 R&D Diversification and Assimilation of Spillover Technology 9.3 Measurement of Technological Diversification
ISBN:	978-3-540-89272-4 ; 978-3-540-89272-4 ; 978-3-540-89271-7
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-540-89272-4 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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