Innovation is highly important to the competitiveness and productivity levels of advanced capitalist economies. It has long been recognised that innovation is a key motor of economic change, as it stimulates intense forms of competition. New products command a premium price, and as others seek...

[...]Diet discussions produced two significant piecesof legislation: the Law Concerning Emergency Measuresfor the Reconstruction of the Functions of the FinancialSystem, and the Financial Function Early Restoration Law.An outline of these laws is shown in Figure 1. The LawConcerning Emergency...