related in the stretch between macro-level processes and micro-level practices. In the knowledge debate, Japan stands as a …Much of the Knowledge Management (KM) literature assumes that all relevant knowledge can be represented as information … knowledge that are frequently misrepresented or ignored in mainstream KM. By relating power and knowledge to 'rules of the game …

involve less formal knowledge sharing. Our interviews with a number of major Japanese electronics firms reveal that suppliers … attention to such formal knowledge sharing events may blind one to patterns of cross-firm learning and sharing that transfer the … most tacit kinds of organizational knowledge, such as the normative and affective elements of a corporate culture. Using …

methodological subjectivism and interpretative economics; entrepreneurship, knowledge and coordination problems in the market process … two illustrations of recent international events, Financial Crisis in 2007 and nuclear meltdown in Japan. …

, concluding that it reflects human knowledge. It is argued that the increase of human knowledge and of its products is mirrored by … compared with results for other European countries and Japan. …

the automatic control machine tool industry in Japan - based on a 1982 sample survey of 40 industrial enterprises … electronics Innovation on small scale industry, the international division of labour and on developing countries. Bibliography and …

order to enhance the knowledge about how to create a new business model effectively. The multiple case-study method was …

understanding of the innovation process. The study surveys the telecommunications industry in Japan over a period of 13 years (2001 …This paper investigates how spectrum policy affects the diffusion of innovation in the telecommunications sector, and … innovation can be analytically depicted not only as the appearance of new technology, but also as physical network expansion of …

(EU), which aims to become the world's leading knowledge-based economy, has a fragmented and expensive system of national … life sciences, where patents are critical to competition, need an enabling environment to institutionalise innovation and … IP generation and reward investments in IP.The US has approached IP strategically and created an IP infrastructure. Japan …

This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using … comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1983-2004, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that … is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent on software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had …